In Memoriam. - Wentworth Alexander, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDEED FGHIIH JJHKKH LBMNNM OOJPPJ| Son of Dr WILLIAM and Mrs MARY WENTWORTH ALEXANDER died at Fayette Iowa May aged years | A |
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| Coming in from play he laid his head on his mother's bosom and said Mama take your boy boy tired and never looked up healthfully again | B |
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| Boy tired the drooping infant said | C |
| And meekly laid his noble head | C |
| Down on that shielding breast | D |
| Which mid all change of grief or wo | E |
| Had been his Paradise below | E |
| His comforter and rest | D |
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| Boy tired Alas for nursing Love | F |
| That sleepless toiled and watched and strove | G |
| For dire disease portends | H |
| Alas for Science and its skill | I |
| Opposed to his unpitying will | I |
| This mortal span that rends | H |
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| Boy tired So thou hast past away | J |
| From heat and burden of the day | J |
| From snares that manhood knows | H |
| From want and wo and deadly strife | K |
| From wrong and weariness of life | K |
| Hast found serene repose | H |
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| Boy tired Those words of parting pain | L |
| Thou never more wilt breathe again | B |
| Nor lift the moaning cry | M |
| For naught to wound or vex or cloy | N |
| Invades the cherub home of joy | N |
| No shade obscures the sky | M |
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| O mother When above ye meet | O |
| When all these years so few and fleet | O |
| Fade like a mist away | J |
| This sorrow that thy soul hath bowed | P |
| Shall seem but as an April cloud | P |
| Before the noon tide ray | J |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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