In Memoriam. - Mr. Samuel Tudor, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF HIEIIJKJ LKMKNOPO QRHRSTUT VKDKWJXY KHZHA2B2C2B2 D2E2F2E2G2H2IT| Died at Hartford January th aged | A |
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| We saw him on a winter's day | B |
| Beneath the hallowed dome | C |
| Where for so many years his heart | D |
| Had found its Sabbath home | C |
| Yet not amid his ancient seat | E |
| Or in the accustomed place | F |
| Arose his fair and reverend brow | G |
| And form of manly grace | F |
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| Then Music through the organ's soul | H |
| Melodious descant gave | I |
| But yet his voice so rich and sweet | E |
| Swell'd not the sacred stave | I |
| The Christmas wreaths o'er arch and nave | I |
| Were lingering still to cheer | J |
| His parting visit to the fane | K |
| Which he had help'd to rear | J |
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| And flowers were on the coffin lid | L |
| And o'er his bosom strown | K |
| Fit offering for the friend who loved | M |
| The plants of every zone | K |
| And bade them in his favor'd cell | N |
| Unfold their charms sublime | O |
| And felt the florist's genial joy | P |
| Repel the frost of time | O |
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| No cloud of sorrow marr'd his course | Q |
| Save when her loss he wept | R |
| Whose image in his constant soul | H |
| Its angel presence kept | R |
| But heavenly Mercy's balm was shed | S |
| To cheer his lonely breast | T |
| For tenderest love in filial hearts | U |
| His latest moments blest | T |
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| And so for more than ninety years | V |
| Flow'd on his cloudless span | K |
| In love of Nature and of Art | D |
| And kindred love for man | K |
| Our oldest patriarch kind and true | W |
| To all our City dear | J |
| His cordial tones his greeting words | X |
| No more on earth we hear | Y |
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| Last of that band of noble men | K |
| Who for their Church's weal | H |
| Took counsel in her hour of need | Z |
| And wrought with tireless zeal | H |
| Nor in their fervent toil declined | A2 |
| Nor loiter'd on their ways | B2 |
| Until her Gothic towers arose | C2 |
| And her full chant of praise | B2 |
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| But as we laid him down with tears | D2 |
| The westering Sun shone bright | E2 |
| And through the ice clad evergreens | F2 |
| Diffused prismatic light | E2 |
| Type of the glory that awaits | G2 |
| The rising of the just | H2 |
| And so we left him in the grave | I |
| That Christ his Lord had blest | T |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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