I Would Not Live Alway Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDAD EDFDGDHD AIBIJDAD KGCGLDMD| I looked upon the fair young flowers | A |
| That in our gardens bloom | B |
| Gazed on their winning loveliness | A |
| And then upon the tomb | B |
| I looked upon the smiling earth | C |
| The blue and cloudless sky | D |
| And murmured in my spirit's depths | A |
| O I can never die | D |
| - | |
| I heard my sister's joyous laugh | E |
| As she danced lightly by | D |
| Her heart was glad with love and hope | F |
| Its pulse with youth beat high | D |
| I sought my mother's quiet smile | G |
| She fondly drew me nigh | D |
| And still I said within my heart | H |
| O I can never die | D |
| - | |
| Stern winter came the fairy flowers | A |
| Were swept by storms away | I |
| And swiftly passed the verdant bloom | B |
| Of summer's lovely day | I |
| My mother's smile grew more serene | J |
| And brighter was her eye | D |
| And now I know her only as | A |
| An angel in the sky | D |
| - | |
| And sorrow's wing had cast a shade | K |
| Upon my sister's smile | G |
| Had checked the voice of gladsome mirth | C |
| And bounding step the while | G |
| And when the bright spring came again | L |
| And clouds forsook the sky | D |
| Then I knelt down and thanked my God | M |
| There was a time to die | D |
Mary Gardiner Horsford
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