Transfiguration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDE FGGF HIIH JKLJ MNNM OJJO PQQP RSSR TUUT VWWV XYYX| Mysterious death who in a single hour | A |
| Life's gold can so refine | B |
| And by thy art divine | B |
| Change mortal weakness to immortal power | A |
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| Bending beneath the weight of eighty years | C |
| Spent with the noble strife | D |
| of a victorious life | D |
| We watched her fading heavenward through our tears | E |
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| But ere the sense of loss our hearts had wrung | F |
| A miracle was wrought | G |
| And swift as happy thought | G |
| She lived again brave beautiful and young | F |
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| Age pain and sorrow dropped the veils they wore | H |
| And showed the tender eyes | I |
| Of angels in disguise | I |
| Whose discipline so patiently she bore | H |
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| The past years brought their harvest rich and fair | J |
| While memory and love | K |
| Together fondly wove | L |
| A golden garland for the silver hair | J |
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| How could we mourn like those who are bereft | M |
| When every pang of grief | N |
| found balm for its relief | N |
| In counting up the treasures she had left | M |
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| Faith that withstood the shocks of toil and time | O |
| Hope that defied despair | J |
| Patience that conquered care | J |
| And loyalty whose courage was sublime | O |
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| The great deep heart that was a home for all | P |
| Just eloquent and strong | Q |
| In protest against wrong | Q |
| Wide charity that knew no sin no fall | P |
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| The spartan spirit that made life so grand | R |
| Mating poor daily needs | S |
| With high heroic deeds | S |
| That wrested happiness from Fate's hard hand | R |
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| We thought to weep but sing for joy instead | T |
| Full of the grateful peace | U |
| That follows her release | U |
| For nothing but the weary dust lies dead | T |
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| Oh noble woman never more a queen | V |
| Than in the laying down | W |
| Of sceptre and of crown | W |
| To win a greater kingdom yet unseen | V |
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| Teaching us how to seek the highest goal | X |
| To earn the true success | Y |
| To live to love to bless | Y |
| And make death proud to take a royal soul | X |
Louisa May Alcott
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