In Memoriam. - Mrs. Georgiana Ives Comstock, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHAAHIJH AKHALAMHHHHNHHAA AAADAOPAQAAI RAASAT AAU| Died at Hartford April th aged | A |
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| I saw a brilliant bridal | B |
| All that cheers | C |
| And charms the leaping heart of youth was there | D |
| And she the central object of the group | E |
| The cherished song bird of her father's house | F |
| Array'd in beauty was the loved of all | G |
| Would I could tell you what a world of flowers | H |
| Were concentrated there how they o'erflow'd | A |
| In wreaths and clusters how they climb'd and swept | A |
| From vase to ceiling with their gay festoons | H |
| Whispering each other in their mystic lore | I |
| Of fragrance and consulting how to swell | J |
| As best they might the tide of happiness | H |
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| A few brief moons departed and I sought | A |
| The same abode There was a gather'd throng | K |
| Beyond the threshold stone A few white flowers | H |
| Crept o'er a bosom and a gentle hand | A |
| That clasp'd them not A holy hymn awoke | L |
| In plaintive melody but she who breath'd | A |
| The very soul of music from her birth | M |
| Lay there with close seal'd lips | H |
| And the same voice | H |
| That in the flushing of the autumnal rose | H |
| Gladly pronounced the irrevocable words | H |
| What God hath join'd together let no man | N |
| Asunder put now in the chasten'd tones | H |
| Of deep humility and tenderness | H |
| Strove from the armory of Heaven to gird | A |
| The hearts that freshly bled | A |
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| At close of day | A |
| In the lone sadden'd hour of musing thought | A |
| I seem'd to view a scene where side by side | A |
| Bridals and burials gleam'd the smile and tear | D |
| Anguish and joy peace in her heavenly vest | A |
| And brazen throated war and heard a cry | O |
| Such is man's life below | P |
| I would have wept | A |
| Save that a symphony of harps unseen | Q |
| Broke from a hovering cloud Lo we are they | A |
| Who from earth's tribulation rose and found | A |
| Our robes made white Henceforth we grieve no more | I |
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| List List She mingleth in that raptur'd strain | R |
| Who said so sweetly to her spirit's guide | A |
| That the dear Lord whom she had early serv'd | A |
| Stood near in her extremity and gave | S |
| Her soul full willingness to leave a world | A |
| All bright with beauty and requited love | T |
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| And so Death lost his victory tho' he snatched | A |
| The unwither'd garland out of Hymen's hand | A |
| And wound it in cold mockery round the tomb | U |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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