In Memoriam. - Richard Ely Collins, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDC EFGGF HIJJI KLFFL MNOON| Son of Mr MORRIS COLLINS died at Wethersfield September th aged months and days | A |
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| It was a sad and lovely sight | B |
| They call'd us to behold | C |
| That infant forehead high and fair | D |
| Those beauteous features sculptured rare | D |
| Yet breathless all and cold | C |
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| Heard it in dreams an angel voice | E |
| Soft as the zephyr's tone | F |
| The yearning of a Mother mild | G |
| To clasp once more her three months' child | G |
| But a few days her own | F |
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| Just a few days of wasting pain | H |
| She linger'd by its side | I |
| And then consign'd to stranger arms | J |
| The frail unfolding of the charms | J |
| She would have watch'd with pride | I |
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| Yet happy babe to reach a home | K |
| Beyond all sorrowing cares | L |
| Where none a Mother's loss can moan | F |
| Or seek for bread and find a stone | F |
| Or fall in fatal snares | L |
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| Thrice happy to have pass'd away | M |
| Ere Time's sore ills invade | N |
| From fragrant buds that drooping shed | O |
| Their life sigh o'er thy coffin bed | O |
| To flowers that never fade | N |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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