Lucy Hooper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACDDCEFFFFFFFFFF GFFH IIJKLLMNOOOPQPQRFFRF SFSFFFDTFFCUUVVC WXWXFFKKQQSSYYQQOOZZ FFA2A2 QJQB2QC2D2C2D2FFQE2Q E2FQFQC2C2C2C2F2F2XQ| They tell me Lucy thou art dead | A |
| That all of thee we loved and cherished | B |
| Has with thy summer roses perished | B |
| And left as its young beauty fled | A |
| An ashen memory in its stead | A |
| The twilight of a parted day | C |
| Whose fading light is cold and vain | D |
| The heart's faint echo of a strain | D |
| Of low sweet music passed away | C |
| That true and loving heart that gift | E |
| Of a mind earnest clear profound | F |
| Bestowing with a glad unthrift | F |
| Its sunny light on all around | F |
| Affinities which only could | F |
| Cleave to the pure the true and good | F |
| And sympathies which found no rest | F |
| Save with the loveliest and best | F |
| Of them of thee remains there naught | F |
| But sorrow in the mourner's breast | F |
| A shadow in the land of thought | F |
| No Even my weak and trembling faith | G |
| Can lift for thee the veil which doubt | F |
| And human fear have drawn about | F |
| The all awaiting scene of death | H |
| - | |
| Even as thou wast I see thee still | I |
| And save the absence of all ill | I |
| And pain and weariness which here | J |
| Summoned the sigh or wrung the tear | K |
| The same as when two summers back | L |
| Beside our childhood's Merrimac | L |
| I saw thy dark eye wander o'er | M |
| Stream sunny upland rocky shore | N |
| And heard thy low soft voice alone | O |
| Midst lapse of waters and the tone | O |
| Of pine leaves by the west wind blown | O |
| There's not a charm of soul or brow | P |
| Of all we knew and loved in thee | Q |
| But lives in holier beauty now | P |
| Baptized in immortality | Q |
| Not mine the sad and freezing dream | R |
| Of souls that with their earthly mould | F |
| Cast off the loves and joys of old | F |
| Unbodied like a pale moonbeam | R |
| As pure as passionless and cold | F |
| Nor mine the hope of Indra's son | S |
| Of slumbering in oblivion's rest | F |
| Life's myriads blending into one | S |
| In blank annihilation blest | F |
| Dust atoms of the infinite | F |
| Sparks scattered from the central light | F |
| And winning back through mortal pain | D |
| Their old unconsciousness again | T |
| No I have friends in Spirit Land | F |
| Not shadows in a shadowy band | F |
| Not others but themselves are they | C |
| And still I think of them the same | U |
| As when the Master's summons came | U |
| Their change the holy morn light breaking | V |
| Upon the dream worn sleeper waking | V |
| A change from twilight into day | C |
| - | |
| They 've laid thee midst the household graves | W |
| Where father brother sister lie | X |
| Below thee sweep the dark blue waves | W |
| Above thee bends the summer sky | X |
| Thy own loved church in sadness read | F |
| Her solemn ritual o'er thy head | F |
| And blessed and hallowed with her prayer | K |
| The turf laid lightly o'er thee there | K |
| That church whose rites and liturgy | Q |
| Sublime and old were truth to thee | Q |
| Undoubted to thy bosom taken | S |
| As symbols of a faith unshaken | S |
| Even I of simpler views could feel | Y |
| The beauty of thy trust and zeal | Y |
| And owning not thy creed could see | Q |
| How deep a truth it seemed to thee | Q |
| And how thy fervent heart had thrown | O |
| O'er all a coloring of its own | O |
| And kindled up intense and warm | Z |
| A life in every rite and form | Z |
| As when on Chebar's banks of old | F |
| The Hebrew's gorgeous vision rolled | F |
| A spirit filled the vast machine | A2 |
| A life 'within the wheels' was seen | A2 |
| - | |
| Farewell A little time and we | Q |
| Who knew thee well and loved thee here | J |
| One after one shall follow thee | Q |
| As pilgrims through the gate of fear | B2 |
| Which opens on eternity | Q |
| Yet shall we cherish not the less | C2 |
| All that is left our hearts meanwhile | D2 |
| The memory of thy loveliness | C2 |
| Shall round our weary pathway smile | D2 |
| Like moonlight when the sun has set | F |
| A sweet and tender radiance yet | F |
| Thoughts of thy clear eyed sense of duty | Q |
| Thy generous scorn of all things wrong | E2 |
| The truth the strength the graceful beauty | Q |
| Which blended in thy song | E2 |
| All lovely things by thee beloved | F |
| Shall whisper to our hearts of thee | Q |
| These green hills where thy childhood roved | F |
| Yon river winding to the sea | Q |
| The sunset light of autumn eves | C2 |
| Reflecting on the deep still floods | C2 |
| Cloud crimson sky and trembling leaves | C2 |
| Of rainbow tinted woods | C2 |
| These in our view shall henceforth take | F2 |
| A tenderer meaning for thy sake | F2 |
| And all thou lovedst of earth and sky | X |
| Seem sacred to thy memory | Q |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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