A Legacy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEEDFGGGHIIHJKLJ| Friend of my many years | A |
| When the great silence falls at last on me | B |
| Let me not leave to pain and sadden thee | B |
| A memory of tears | C |
| But pleasant thoughts alone | D |
| Of one who was thy friendship's honored guest | E |
| And drank the wine of consolation pressed | E |
| From sorrows of thy own | D |
| I leave with thee a sense | F |
| Of hands upheld and trials rendered less | G |
| The unselfish joy which is to helpfulness | G |
| Its own great recompense | G |
| The knowledge that from thine | H |
| As from the garments of the Master stole | I |
| Calmness and strength the virtue which makes whole | I |
| And heals without a sign | H |
| Yea more the assurance strong | J |
| That love which fails of perfect utterance here | K |
| Lives on to fill the heavenly atmosphere | L |
| With its immortal song | J |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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