In Memoriam. - Mrs. Charles N. Cadwallader, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJI IKLK MNON IPQP| Died at Philadelphia July nd five weeks after her marriage | A |
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| The year rolls round and brings again | B |
| The bright auspicious day | C |
| The marriage scene the festive cheer | D |
| The group serenely gay | C |
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| The hopes that nurs'd by sun and shower | E |
| O'er youth's fair trellis wound | F |
| And in that consecrated rite | G |
| Their full fruition found | F |
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| But One unseen amid the throng | H |
| Drew near with purpose fell | I |
| And lo the orange flowers were changed | J |
| To mournful asphodel | I |
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| Five sabbaths walk'd the beautiful | I |
| Her chosen lord beside | K |
| But ere the sixth illumed the sky | L |
| She was that dread One's bride | K |
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| Yet call her not the bride of Death | M |
| Though in his bed she sleeps | N |
| And broidering Myrtle richly green | O |
| O'er her cold pillow creeps | N |
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| She hath a bower where angels dwell | I |
| A mansion with the blest | P |
| For Jesus whom she trusted here | Q |
| Receiv'd her to His rest | P |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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