In Memoriam. - Denison Olmsted, Ll.d., Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FAGHIJKLMNCOPQRSCTUV WF XYZA2B2C2D2| Professor of Astronomy in Yale College Conn died at New Haven May | A |
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| Spring pour'd fresh beauty o'er the cultured grounds | B |
| And woke to joyance every leaf and flower | C |
| Where erst the Man of Science lov'd to find | D |
| Refreshment from his toils | E |
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| 'Twas sweet to see | F |
| How Nature met him there and took away | A |
| All weariness of knowledge Yet he held | G |
| Higher communion than with fragrant shrub | H |
| Or taper tree that o'er the forest tower'd | I |
| His talk was with the stars as one by one | J |
| Night in her queenly regency put forth | K |
| Their sprinkled gold upon her sable robe | L |
| He knew their places and pronounc'd their names | M |
| And by their heavenly conversation sought | N |
| Acquaintance with their Maker | C |
| Sang they not | O |
| Unto his uncloth'd spirit as it pass'd | P |
| From sphere to sphere above their highest ranks | Q |
| With its attendant angel | R |
| We are dark | S |
| We ask and yet no answer | C |
| But we trace | T |
| In clearest lines the shining course he took | U |
| Among life's duties for so many years | V |
| And hear those parting words that all is peace | W |
| The harvest song of true philosophy | F |
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| His epitaph is that which cannot yield | X |
| A mouldering motto to the tooth of time | Y |
| Man works in marble and it mocks his trust | Z |
| But the immortal mind doth ever keep | A2 |
| The earnest impress of the moulding hand | B2 |
| And bear it onward to a race unborn | C2 |
| That is his monument | D2 |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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