Old Aunt Lucy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGDG CHBH IJKJ LMNM OBDB CPQP FRCR STUT VFWF| Why into that darkened chamber | A |
| Walk you with such noiseless tread | B |
| No slumbering one will awaken | C |
| The sheeted form is dead | B |
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| Why gaze on the rigid features | D |
| So white in death's embrace | E |
| With such look of awe and pity | F |
| 'Tis only the same old face | E |
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| Why touch you now so tender | A |
| The hands that silent lay | G |
| They're only the sunburned fingers | D |
| That toiled for you night and day | G |
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| Why now with your tear dimmed vision | C |
| So softly do you press | H |
| Upon the wrinkled forehead | B |
| Your lips in sad caress | H |
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| How much of care had lighted | I |
| That lingering loving kiss | J |
| Had you in life but gave it | K |
| You never thought of this | J |
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| No loving hand e'er brightened | L |
| Her life with tender care | M |
| No mother's baby kisses | N |
| Were ever hers to share | M |
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| Only for others caring | O |
| The long long years have fled | B |
| Now only they say the neighbors | D |
| Poor old Aunt Lucy's dead | B |
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| And they whisper a girl's ambition | C |
| A name in the world to make | P |
| 'Way back in her vanished youth time | Q |
| Gave up for a duty's sake | P |
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| But whatever had been the story | F |
| Of love or grief or woe | R |
| It died with the heart and no one | C |
| Will ever care or know | R |
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| The hands were hard and toil stained | S |
| And sallow the cheeks and chin | T |
| But whiter not the snow wreath | U |
| Than the soul that dwelt within | T |
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| And methinks a crown resplendent | V |
| Just over the waveless sea | F |
| With gems of self denial | W |
| Awaits for such as she | F |
Madge Morris Wagner
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