In Memoriam. - Colonel Samuel Colt, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF HGIGJKLK MCNCOPQP RSTSUVWV MXYXZA2IA2 GB2C2B2D2E2YE2 C2DF2DG2D2H2D2 I2J2K2J2L2M2N2M2 O2C2P2C2Q2PC2R2| Died at Hartford on Friday morning January th | A |
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| And hath he fallen whom late we saw | B |
| In manly vigor bold | C |
| That stately form that noble face | D |
| Shall we no more behold | C |
| Not now of the renown we speak | E |
| That gathers round his name | F |
| For other climes beside our own | G |
| Bear witness to his fame | F |
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| Nor of the high inventive power | H |
| That stretched from zone to zone | G |
| And 'neath the pathless ocean wrought | I |
| For these to all are known | G |
| Nor of the love his liberal soul | J |
| His native City bore | K |
| For she hath monuments of this | L |
| Till memory is no more | K |
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| Nor of the self reliant force | M |
| By which his way he told | C |
| Nor of the Midas touch that turn'd | N |
| All enterprise to gold | C |
| And made the indignant River yield | O |
| Unto the ozier'd plain | P |
| For these would ask a wider range | Q |
| Than waits the lyric strain | P |
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| We choose those unobtrusive traits | R |
| That dawn'd with influence mild | S |
| When in his noble Mother's arms | T |
| We saw the noble child | S |
| And noted mid the changeful scenes | U |
| Of boyhood's sport or strife | V |
| That quiet firm and ruling mind | W |
| Which marked advancing life | V |
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| So onward as he held his course | M |
| Through hardship to renown | X |
| He kept fresh sympathy for those | Y |
| Who cope with fortune's frown | X |
| The kind regard for honest toil | Z |
| The joy to see it rise | A2 |
| The fearless truth that never sought | I |
| His frailties to disguise | A2 |
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| The lofty mind that all alone | G |
| Gigantic plans sustain'd | B2 |
| Yet turned unboastfully away | C2 |
| From fame and honors gained | B2 |
| The tender love for her who blest | D2 |
| His home with angel care | E2 |
| And for the infant buds that rose | Y |
| In opening beauty fair | E2 |
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| Deep in the heart whence flows this lay | C2 |
| Is many a grateful trace | D |
| Of friendship's warm and earnest deed | F2 |
| Which nought can e'er replace | D |
| For in the glory of his prime | G2 |
| The pulse forsakes his breast | D2 |
| And by his buried little ones | H2 |
| He lays him down to rest | D2 |
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| And thousand stand with drooping head | I2 |
| Beside his open grave | J2 |
| To whose industrious faithful hands | K2 |
| The daily bread he gave | J2 |
| The daily bread that wife and babe | L2 |
| Or aged parent cheer'd | M2 |
| Beneath the pleasant cottage roofs | N2 |
| Which he for them had rear'd | M2 |
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| There's mourning in the princely halls | O2 |
| So late with gladness gay | C2 |
| A tear within the heart of love | P2 |
| That will not dry away | C2 |
| A sense of loss on all around | Q2 |
| A sigh of grief and pain | P |
| The like of him we lose to day | C2 |
| We ne'er shall see again | R2 |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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