In Memoriam. - Henry Howard Comstock, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBC CDEED FGHHG IJKKJ| Youngest child of the late Capt JOHN C COMSTOCK died at Hartford February th a fortnight after his father aged months | A |
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| It was a fair and mournful sight | B |
| Once at the wintry tide | C |
| When to the dear baptismal rite | B |
| Was brought an infant sweet and bright | B |
| His father's couch beside | C |
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| His dying father's couch beside | C |
| Whose eye with tranquil ray | D |
| Beheld upon that beauteous head | E |
| The consecrated water shed | E |
| Then calmly pass'd away | D |
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| A little while the lovely babe | F |
| As if by angels lent | G |
| With soft caress and soothing wile | H |
| Invok'd a widow'd mother's smile | H |
| Then to his father went | G |
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| Christ's holy seal upon his brow | I |
| Christ's sign upon his breast | J |
| He 'scaped from all the cares and woes | K |
| That earth inflicts or manhood knows | K |
| And enter'd with the blest | J |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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