The Friend-s Burial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM FNFN OPOP QGRG PSPS PTPT KFKF HUHU FVFV FUFU FNFN WHXH FYFY ZRA2R B2C2B2C2 FD2FE2| My thoughts are all in yonder town | A |
| Where wept by many tears | B |
| To day my mother's friend lays down | A |
| The burden of her years | C |
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| True as in life no poor disguise | D |
| Of death with her is seen | E |
| And on her simple casket lies | D |
| No wreath of bloom and green | E |
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| Oh not for her the florist's art | F |
| The mocking weeds of woe | G |
| Dear memories in each mourner's heart | F |
| Like heaven's white lilies blow | G |
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| And all about the softening air | H |
| Of new born sweetness tells | I |
| And the ungathered May flowers wear | H |
| The tints of ocean shells | I |
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| The old assuring miracle | J |
| Is fresh as heretofore | K |
| And earth takes up its parable | J |
| Of life from death once more | K |
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| Here organ swell and church bell toll | L |
| Methinks but discord were | M |
| The prayerful silence of the soul | L |
| Is best befitting her | M |
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| No sound should break the quietude | F |
| Alike of earth and sky | N |
| O wandering wind in Seabrook wood | F |
| Breathe but a half heard sigh | N |
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| Sing softly spring bird for her sake | O |
| And thou not distant sea | P |
| Lapse lightly as if Jesus spake | O |
| And thou wert Galilee | P |
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| For all her quiet life flowed on | Q |
| As meadow streamlets flow | G |
| Where fresher green reveals alone | R |
| The noiseless ways they go | G |
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| From her loved place of prayer I see | P |
| The plain robed mourners pass | S |
| With slow feet treading reverently | P |
| The graveyard's springing grass | S |
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| Make room O mourning ones for me | P |
| Where like the friends of Paul | T |
| That you no more her face shall see | P |
| You sorrow most of all | T |
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| Her path shall brighten more and more | K |
| Unto the perfect day | F |
| She cannot fail of peace who bore | K |
| Such peace with her away | F |
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| O sweet calm face that seemed to wear | H |
| The look of sins forgiven | U |
| O voice of prayer that seemed to bear | H |
| Our own needs up to heaven | U |
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| How reverent in our midst she stood | F |
| Or knelt in grateful praise | V |
| What grace of Christian womanhood | F |
| Was in her household ways | V |
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| For still her holy living meant | F |
| No duty left undone | U |
| The heavenly and the human blent | F |
| Their kindred loves in one | U |
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| And if her life small leisure found | F |
| For feasting ear and eye | N |
| And Pleasure on her daily round | F |
| She passed unpausing by | N |
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| Yet with her went a secret sense | W |
| Of all things sweet and fair | H |
| And Beauty's gracious providence | X |
| Refreshed her unaware | H |
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| She kept her line of rectitude | F |
| With love's unconscious ease | Y |
| Her kindly instincts understood | F |
| All gentle courtesies | Y |
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| An inborn charm of graciousness | Z |
| Made sweet her smile and tone | R |
| And glorified her farm wife dress | A2 |
| With beauty not its own | R |
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| The dear Lord's best interpreters | B2 |
| Are humble human souls | C2 |
| The Gospel of a life like hers | B2 |
| Is more than books or scrolls | C2 |
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| From scheme and creed the light goes out | F |
| The saintly fact survives | D2 |
| The blessed Master none can doubt | F |
| Revealed in holy lives | E2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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