Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JEJEKK ELELMM| Remembrance of the past will joy impart | A |
| If in that past the conscience was supreme | B |
| But if the soul be made an auction mart | A |
| And thoughts and deeds be sold for what you deem | B |
| The price of virtue then the called up past | C |
| Will be like hooks of steel to hold thee fast | C |
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| Or like the stings those nettles left behind | D |
| Which I so fondly handled in my play | E |
| I deemed the friend who warned me true and kind | D |
| And in great haste I threw the weeds away | E |
| But soon the burning flesh reminded me | F |
| 'Twere safer far from all such weeds to flee | F |
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| The cloud that flitted o'er the saintly brow | G |
| Which now a crown of life so well adorns | H |
| When you by ways and means you know not now | G |
| Did what your soul with holy horror scorns | H |
| Will stay with you long as you live on earth | I |
| And be like gall to spoil your cup of mirth | I |
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| The smiles of those we bless are lasting too | J |
| We feel their cheering glow each cloudy day | E |
| As falls on wilted flower the healing dew | J |
| So they refresh and chase our gloom away | E |
| We feel though weak we have not lived in vain | K |
| And know God smiles tho' we cannot explain | K |
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| The footprints on the rock time wears away | E |
| The rock itself soon crumbles into dust | L |
| But memories of the past have come to stay | E |
| Nor flood nor fire nor the consuming rust | L |
| Can ever from the soul the past erase | M |
| Guard thou thy life O man with heavenly grace | M |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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