A Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG HHII JJKL MMNN OOPP FFQK RRSS TTPP AAGG| The circle is broken one seat is forsaken | A |
| One bud from the tree of our friendship is shaken | A |
| One heart from among us no longer shall thrill | B |
| With joy in our gladness or grief in our ill | B |
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| Weep lonely and lowly are slumbering now | C |
| The light of her glances the pride of her brow | C |
| Weep sadly and long shall we listen in vain | D |
| To hear the soft tones of her welcome again | E |
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| Give our tears to the dead For humanity's claim | F |
| From its silence and darkness is ever the same | F |
| The hope of that world whose existence is bliss | G |
| May not stifle the tears of the mourners of this | G |
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| For oh if one glance the freed spirit can throw | H |
| On the scene of its troubled probation below | H |
| Than the pride of the marble the pomp of the dead | I |
| To that glance will be dearer the tears which we shed | I |
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| Oh who can forget the mild light of her smile | J |
| Over lips moved with music and feeling the while | J |
| The eye's deep enchantment dark dream like and clear | K |
| In the glow of its gladness the shade of its tear | L |
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| And the charm of her features while over the whole | M |
| Played the hues of the heart and the sunshine of soul | M |
| And the tones of her voice like the music which seems | N |
| Murmured low in our ears by the Angel of dreams | N |
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| But holier and dearer our memories hold | O |
| Those treasures of feeling more precious than gold | O |
| The love and the kindness and pity which gave | P |
| Fresh flowers for the bridal green wreaths for the grave | P |
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| The heart ever open to Charity's claim | F |
| Unmoved from its purpose by censure and blame | F |
| While vainly alike on her eye and her ear | Q |
| Fell the scorn of the heartless the jesting and jeer | K |
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| How true to our hearts was that beautiful sleeper | R |
| With smiles for the joyful with tears for the weeper | R |
| Yet evermore prompt whether mournful or gay | S |
| With warnings in love to the passing astray | S |
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| For though spotless herself she could sorrow for them | T |
| Who sullied with evil the spirit's pure gem | T |
| And a sigh or a tear could the erring reprove | P |
| And the sting of reproof was still tempered by love | P |
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| As a cloud of the sunset slow melting in heaven | A |
| As a star that is lost when the daylight is given | A |
| As a glad dream of slumber which wakens in bliss | G |
| She hath passed to the world of the holy from this | G |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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