To Two Bereaved Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IJIJ KLKL HMHN OJPB| Now in your days of worst distress | A |
| The empty days that stretch before | B |
| When all your sweet's turned bitterness | C |
| The Hand of the Lord is at your door | B |
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| And when at morn beside your bed | D |
| Grief waits to tell you it is true | E |
| That both your darling boys are dead | D |
| The Mercy of the Lord bends down to you | E |
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| When you are frozen and stripped bare | F |
| And over your joy is raised a stone | G |
| The foot of the Lord is on your stair | F |
| The Lord's mercy is never done | H |
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| More than the joys of common men | I |
| The gifts of the Lord are past desire | J |
| They shall be given to you again | I |
| They shall sit down beside your fire | J |
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| The young and laurelled heads shall shine | K |
| Making a glory in your days | L |
| As a light burns in a secret shrine | K |
| The Love of the Lord is passing praise | L |
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| The Lord recalls not gifts once given | H |
| They shall sit down beside your hearth | M |
| They shall come in in white new shriven | H |
| Make you new Heaven and a new earth | N |
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| The Will of the Lord is great and good | O |
| The cup of your joy shall He brim o'er | J |
| They shall come in with life renewed | P |
| They shall go out from you no more | B |
Katharine Tynan
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