An Autograph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BBCC DDEE AADD AAFF GGDD HHII JJKK AALL MMAA NNEE AAAA OPII QQAA RRRR RRRR| I write my name as one | A |
| On sands by waves o'errun | A |
| Or winter's frosted pane | A |
| Traces a record vain | A |
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| Oblivion's blankness claims | B |
| Wiser and better names | B |
| And well my own may pass | C |
| As from the strand or glass | C |
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| Wash on O waves of time | D |
| Melt noons the frosty rime | D |
| Welcome the shadow vast | E |
| The silence that shall last | E |
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| When I and all who know | A |
| And love me vanish so | A |
| What harm to them or me | D |
| Will the lost memory be | D |
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| If any words of mine | A |
| Through right of life divine | A |
| Remain what matters it | F |
| Whose hand the message writ | F |
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| Why should the crowner's quest | G |
| Sit on my worst or best | G |
| Why should the showman claim | D |
| The poor ghost of my name | D |
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| Yet as when dies a sound | H |
| Its spectre lingers round | H |
| Haply my spent life will | I |
| Leave some faint echo still | I |
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| A whisper giving breath | J |
| Of praise or blame to death | J |
| Soothing or saddening such | K |
| As loved the living much | K |
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| Therefore with yearnings vain | A |
| And fond I still would fain | A |
| A kindly judgment seek | L |
| A tender thought bespeak | L |
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| And while my words are read | M |
| Let this at least be said | M |
| Whate'er his life's defeatures | A |
| He loved his fellow creatures | A |
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| If of the Law's stone table | N |
| To hold he scarce was able | N |
| The first great precept fast | E |
| He kept for man the last | E |
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| Through mortal lapse and dulness | A |
| What lacks the Eternal Fulness | A |
| If still our weakness can | A |
| Love Him in loving man | A |
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| Age brought him no despairing | O |
| Of the world's future faring | P |
| In human nature still | I |
| He found more good than ill | I |
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| To all who dumbly suffered | Q |
| His tongue and pen he offered | Q |
| His life was not his own | A |
| Nor lived for self alone | A |
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| Hater of din and riot | R |
| He lived in days unquiet | R |
| And lover of all beauty | R |
| Trod the hard ways of duty | R |
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| He meant no wrong to any | R |
| He sought the good of many | R |
| Yet knew both sin and folly | R |
| May God forgive him wholly | R |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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