His Place Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDE FGGF HIIJ KBBK LMMN OPPO QRRQ HSSJ TIIT UVVU VEEV IRRI| So all things come to our mind at last | A |
| He is close by your side in the twilight gloom | B |
| And you two are alone in the dim old room | B |
| Yet he is mute as you bade him be time past | A |
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| You bade him to weary you never again | C |
| With his idle love in truth he was wise | D |
| For he spake no more although in his eyes | D |
| You read you fancied a language of pain | E |
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| But this is past and vex you he never will | F |
| With loving glance or look of sad reproach | G |
| His lips move not smile not at your approach | G |
| The flowers he clasps are not more calm and still | F |
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| Your favorite flowers he has heard you praise | H |
| Purple pansies and lilies creamy white | I |
| But he offers them not to you to night | I |
| He troubles you not he has learned his place | J |
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| You wished to teach him that lesson you told | K |
| Him as much you know in this very room | B |
| 'Twas about this hour for the twilight gloom | B |
| As now was enwrapping you fold on fold | K |
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| Was his place in the haunts of the herded poor | L |
| Where the pestilence stalked with deadly breath | M |
| Face to face with its dreadful shadow death | M |
| How he wrestled with it from door to door | N |
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| Giving his life that others life might find | O |
| Shaming you with his toil his bravery | P |
| Not by a word or look no boaster he | P |
| He was always gentle to you and kind | O |
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| He has found his place but no need of fears | Q |
| No you need not summon your jealous pride | R |
| For his place will never be by your side | R |
| Nevermore nevermore through all the years | Q |
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| And when from Time shall drop Earth's days | H |
| Like chaff from the bloom of the year sublime | S |
| With the gentle spirits of every time | S |
| And the martyr souls he will find his place | J |
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| So answers will come to our seeking wills | T |
| Nevermore will his sad face vex your sight | I |
| For you never will make your robes so white | I |
| As to stand by him on the heavenly hills | T |
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| Yes lay your cheek upon his and press | U |
| The clustering hair from his broad white brow | V |
| Have no fear he will not annoy you now | V |
| By a word in praise of your loveliness | U |
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| Yes kneel by him moaning kissing his brow | V |
| Not now will it grieve him your tears' swift rain | E |
| And he will not ask you to share your pain | E |
| Ah Once he would but not now not now | V |
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| So leave the old room in the waning light | I |
| Go out in your peerless beauty and pride | R |
| And let no shadow go out by your side | R |
| To follow you under the falling night | I |
Marietta Holley
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