Consolations In Bereavement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDC EFGFHIJ KLKLMNM OPOPQRQ AQAQSTS UJUJVV JWJWEE| Death was full urgent with thee Sister dear | A |
| And startling in his speed | B |
| Brief pain then languor till thy end came near | A |
| Such was the path decreed | B |
| The hurried road | C |
| To lead thy soul from earth to thine own God's | D |
| abode | C |
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| Death wrought with thee sweet maid impatiently | E |
| Yet merciful the haste | F |
| That baffles sickness dearest thou didst die | G |
| Thou wast not made to taste | F |
| Death's bitterness | H |
| Decline's slow wasting charm or fever's fierce | I |
| distress | J |
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| Death came unheralded but it was well | K |
| For so thy Saviour bore | L |
| Kind witness thou wast meet at once to dwell | K |
| On His eternal shore | L |
| All warning spared | M |
| For none He gives where hearts are for prompt change | N |
| prepared | M |
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| Death wrought in mystery both complaint and cure | O |
| To human skill unknown | P |
| God put aside all means to make us sure | O |
| It was His deed alone | P |
| Lest we should lay | Q |
| Reproach on our poor selves that thou wast caught | R |
| away | Q |
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| Death urged as scant of time lest Sister dear | A |
| We many a lingering day | Q |
| Had sicken'd with alternate hope and fear | A |
| The ague of delay | Q |
| Watching each spark | S |
| Of promise quench'd in turn till all our sky was | T |
| dark | S |
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| Death came and went that so thy image might | U |
| Our yearning hearts possess | J |
| Associate with all pleasant thoughts and bright | U |
| With youth and loveliness | J |
| Sorrow can claim | V |
| Mary nor lot nor part in thy soft soothing name | V |
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| Joy of sad hearts and light of downcast eyes | J |
| Dearest thou art enshrined | W |
| In all thy fragrance in our memories | J |
| For we must ever find | W |
| Bare thought of thee | E |
| Freshen this weary life while weary life shall be | E |
John Henry Newman
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