In Memoriam. - Madam Whiting, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKLJMNOPQRST UVWXDJYZPA2B2C2| Widow of the late SPENCER WHITING Esq died at Hartford April aged | A |
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| Life's work well done how beautiful to rest | B |
| Aye lift your little ones to see her face | C |
| So calmly smiling in its coffin bed | D |
| There is no wrinkle there no rigid gloom | E |
| To make them turn their tender glance away | F |
| And when they say their simple prayer at night | G |
| With folded hands instruct their innocent lips | H |
| Meekly to say Our Father may we live | I |
| And die like her | J |
| Her more than fourscore years | K |
| Chill'd not in her the genial flow of thought | L |
| Or energy of deed The earnest power | J |
| To advance home happiness the kindly warmth | M |
| Of social intercourse the sweet response | N |
| Of filial love rejoicing in her joy | O |
| And reverencing her saintly piety | P |
| Were with her unimpair'd until the end | Q |
| A course like this predicted close serene | R |
| And so it was | S |
| There came no cloud to dim | T |
| Her spirit's light when at a beckoning brief | U |
| She heavenward went | V |
| Miss'd is she here and mourn'd | W |
| From hall from hearthstone and from household board | X |
| A beauty and a dignity have fled | D |
| And the heart's tears as freely flowed for her | J |
| As for the loved ones in their prime of days | Y |
| Age justly held in honor hath a charm | Z |
| Peculiarly its own a symmetry | P |
| Of nearness to the skies | A2 |
| And these were hers | B2 |
| Whose life was duty and whose death was peace | C2 |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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