In Memoriam. - Madam Williams, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJ KLMLNOFPQQRQLST UVWX| Widow of the late EZEKIEL WILLIAMS Esq and Daughter of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth died at Hartford February th aged | A |
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| She was a link that bound us to the past | B |
| To the great days of Washington when men | C |
| Loving their country better than themselves | D |
| Show'd to the world what patriot virtue meant | E |
| She on the knee of her majestic sire | F |
| Drew to her listening heart when life was new | G |
| Those principles that made his honored name | H |
| Synonymous with wisdom and the might | I |
| Of holy truth | J |
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| So when in woman's sphere | K |
| She took her post of duty still in all | L |
| The delicate proprieties of life | M |
| The inner sanctities of household weal | L |
| In social elegance and in the deeds | N |
| That christian pity to the poor extends | O |
| She was our model and we saw in her | F |
| The perfect lady of the olden time | P |
| Thus on the pleasant hill top where she dwelt | Q |
| In her green terraced home o'ercanopied | Q |
| By graceful elm mid evergreens and flowers | R |
| The years stole over her and slowly wrote | Q |
| Their more than fourscore on her faded scroll | L |
| While the kind care of unexhausted love | S |
| Guarded her long decline | T |
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| And now she sleeps | U |
| Where thro' the riven snows the quickening turf | V |
| Gives emblem of the never ending Spring | W |
| That wraps the accepted soul in robes of joy | X |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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