A Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDCE FGHG IJKJ BLBL MNMN OPOQ RNRN HSHT UVUV THTH WHWH XYZY A2JA2J HUHU B2WC2W KD2ID2' | A |
The maiden is not dead but sleepeth | B |
' | A |
She is not gone still in our sight | C |
That dearest maid shall live | D |
In form as true in tints as bright | C |
As youth and health could give | E |
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Still still is ours the modest eye | F |
The smile unwrought by art | G |
The glance that shot so piercingly | H |
Affection's keenest dart | G |
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The thrilling voice I ne'er could hear | I |
But felt a joy and pain | J |
A pride that she was ours a fear | K |
Ours she might not remain | J |
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Whether the page divine call'd forth | B |
Its clear sweet tranquil tone | L |
Or cheerful hymn or seemly mirth | B |
In sprightlier measure shown | L |
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The meek inquiry of that face | M |
Musing on wonders found | N |
As 'mid dim paths she sought to trace | M |
The truth on sacred ground | N |
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The thankful sigh that would arise | O |
When aught her doubts removed | P |
Full sure the explaining voice to prize | O |
Admiring while she loved | Q |
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The pensive brow the world might see | R |
When she in crowds was found | N |
The burst of heart the o'erflowing glee | R |
When only friends were round | N |
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Hope's warmth of promise prompt to fill | H |
The thoughts with good in store | S |
Match'd with content's deep stream which still | H |
Flow'd on when hope was o'er | T |
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That peace which with its own bright day | U |
Made cheapest sights shine fair | V |
That purest grace which track'd its way | U |
Safe from aught earthly there | V |
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Such was she in the sudden hour | T |
That brought her Maker's call | H |
Proving her heart's self mastering power | T |
Blithely to part with all | H |
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All her eye loved all her hand press'd | W |
With keen affection's glow | H |
The voice of home all pleasures best | W |
All dearest thoughts below | H |
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From friend lit hearth from social board | X |
All duteously she rose | Y |
For faith upon the Master's word | Z |
Can find a sure repose | Y |
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And in her wonder up she sped | A2 |
And tried relief in vain | J |
Then laid her down upon her bed | A2 |
Of languor and of pain | J |
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And waited till the solemn spell | H |
A ling'ring night and day | U |
Should fill its numbers and compel | H |
Her soul to come away | U |
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Such was she then and such she is | B2 |
Shrined in each mourner's breast | W |
Such shall she be and more than this | C2 |
In promised glory blest | W |
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When in due lines her Saviour dear | K |
His scatter'd saints shall range | D2 |
And knit in love souls parted here | I |
Where cloud is none nor change | D2 |
John Henry Newman
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