To My Friend Onthe Death Of His Sister Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG HIHI HJHJ KLKL MNMO MHMH MPMP QRQR SQTQ| Thine is a grief the depth of which another | A |
| May never know | B |
| Yet o'er the waters O my stricken brother | A |
| To thee I go | B |
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| I lean my heart unto thee sadly folding | C |
| Thy hand in mine | D |
| With even the weakness of my soul upholding | C |
| The strength of thine | D |
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| I never knew like thee the dear departed | E |
| I stood not by | F |
| When in calm trust the pure and tranquil hearted | E |
| Lay down to die | F |
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| And on thy ears my words of weak condoling | C |
| Must vainly fall | G |
| The funeral bell which in thy heart is tolling | C |
| Sounds over all | G |
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| I will not mock thee with the poor world's common | H |
| And heartless phrase | I |
| Nor wrong the memory of a sainted woman | H |
| With idle praise | I |
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| With silence only as their benediction | H |
| God's angels come | J |
| Where in the shadow of a great affliction | H |
| The soul sits dumb | J |
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| Yet would I say what thy own heart approveth | K |
| Our Father's will | L |
| Calling to Him the dear one whom He loveth | K |
| Is mercy still | L |
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| Not upon thee or thine the solemn angel | M |
| Hath evil wrought | N |
| Her funeral anthem is a glad evangel | M |
| The good die not | O |
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| God calls our loved ones but we lose not wholly | M |
| What He hath given | H |
| They live on earth in thought and deed as truly | M |
| As in His heaven | H |
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| And she is with thee in thy path of trial | M |
| She walketh yet | P |
| Still with the baptism of thy self denial | M |
| Her locks are wet | P |
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| Up then my brother Lo the fields of harvest | Q |
| Lie white in view | R |
| She lives and loves thee and the God thou servest | Q |
| To both is true | R |
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| Thrust in thy sickle England's toilworn peasants | S |
| Thy call abide | Q |
| And she thou mourn'st a pure and holy presence | T |
| Shall glean beside | Q |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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