In Memoriam. - Miss Alice Beckwith, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDC EFGGF HDIAD JDKKD LMNNM| Died at Hartford September d | A |
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| The beautiful hath fled | B |
| To join the spirit train | C |
| Earth interposed with strong array | D |
| Love stretch'd his arms to bar her way | D |
| All all in vain | C |
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| There was a bridal hope | E |
| Before her crown'd with flowers | F |
| The orange blossoms took the hue | G |
| With which the cypress dank with dew | G |
| Darkeneth our bowers | F |
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| Affections strong and warm | H |
| Sprang round her gentle way | D |
| Young Childhood with a moisten'd eye | I |
| And Friendship's tenderest sympathy | A |
| Watch'd her decay | D |
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| Disease around her couch | J |
| Long held a tyrant sway | D |
| Till vanished from her cheek the rose | K |
| And the fair flesh like vernal snows | K |
| Wasted away | D |
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| Yet the dark Angel's touch | L |
| Dissolv'd that dire control | M |
| And where the love knot cannot break | N |
| Nor pain nor grief intrusion make | N |
| Bore the sweet soul | M |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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