Remembrance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBB CCC DEE FFF GGG HHH III JJJ KKK LLL MMM NNN OOO| WITH COPIES OF THE AUTHOR'S WRITINGS | A |
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| Friend of mine whose lot was cast | B |
| With me in the distant past | B |
| Where like shadows flitting fast | B |
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| Fact and fancy thought and theme | C |
| Word and work begin to seem | C |
| Like a half remembered dream | C |
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| Touched by change have all things been | D |
| Yet I think of thee as when | E |
| We had speech of lip and pen | E |
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| For the calm thy kindness lent | F |
| To a path of discontent | F |
| Rough with trial and dissent | F |
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| Gentle words where such were few | G |
| Softening blame where blame was true | G |
| Praising where small praise was due | G |
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| For a waking dream made good | H |
| For an ideal understood | H |
| For thy Christian womanhood | H |
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| For thy marvellous gift to cull | I |
| From our common life and dull | I |
| Whatsoe'er is beautiful | I |
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| Thoughts and fancies Hybla's bees | J |
| Dropping sweetness true heart's ease | J |
| Of congenial sympathies | J |
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| Still for these I own my debt | K |
| Memory with her eyelids wet | K |
| Fain would thank thee even yet | K |
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| And as one who scatters flowers | L |
| Where the Queen of May's sweet hours | L |
| Sits o'ertwined with blossomed bowers | L |
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| In superfluous zeal bestowing | M |
| Gifts where gifts are overflowing | M |
| So I pay the debt I'm owing | M |
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| To thy full thoughts gay or sad | N |
| Sunny hued or sober clad | N |
| Something of my own I add | N |
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| Well assured that thou wilt take | O |
| Even the offering which I make | O |
| Kindly for the giver's sake | O |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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