In Memory: James T. Fields Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC AAA DDD EEE FGF HHH III JJJ KKK LLL AAA MNO PPP QQQ RRR SST| As a guest who may not stay | A |
| Long and sad farewells to say | A |
| Glides with smiling face away | A |
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| Of the sweetness and the zest | B |
| Of thy happy life possessed | B |
| Thou hast left us at thy best | B |
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| Warm of heart and clear of brain | C |
| Of thy sun bright spirit's wane | C |
| Thou hast spared us all the pain | C |
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| Now that thou hast gone away | A |
| What is left of one to say | A |
| Who was open as the day | A |
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| What is there to gloss or shun | D |
| Save with kindly voices none | D |
| Speak thy name beneath the sun | D |
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| Safe thou art on every side | E |
| Friendship nothing finds to hide | E |
| Love's demand is satisfied | E |
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| Over manly strength and worth | F |
| At thy desk of toil or hearth | G |
| Played the lambent light of mirth | F |
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| Mirth that lit but never burned | H |
| All thy blame to pity turned | H |
| Hatred thou hadst never learned | H |
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| Every harsh and vexing thing | I |
| At thy home fire lost its sting | I |
| Where thou wast was always spring | I |
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| And thy perfect trust in good | J |
| Faith in man and womanhood | J |
| Chance and change and time withstood | J |
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| Small respect for cant and whine | K |
| Bigot's zeal and hate malign | K |
| Had that sunny soul of thine | K |
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| But to thee was duty's claim | L |
| Sacred and thy lips became | L |
| Reverent with one holy Name | L |
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| Therefore on thy unknown way | A |
| Go in God's peace We who stay | A |
| But a little while delay | A |
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| Keep for us O friend where'er | M |
| Thou art waiting all that here | N |
| Made thy earthly presence dear | O |
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| Something of thy pleasant past | P |
| On a ground of wonder cast | P |
| In the stiller waters glassed | P |
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| Keep the human heart of thee | Q |
| Let the mortal only be | Q |
| Clothed in immortality | Q |
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| And when fall our feet as fell | R |
| Thine upon the asphodel | R |
| Let thy old smile greet us well | R |
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| Proving in a world of bliss | S |
| What we fondly dream in this | S |
| Love is one with holiness | T |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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