For Charles Dickens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ| Above our dear Romancer's dust | A |
| Grief takes the place of praise | B |
| Because of sudden cypress thrust | A |
| Amid the old earned bays | B |
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| Ah when shall such another friend | C |
| By England's fireside sit | D |
| To tell her of her faults yet blend | C |
| Sage words with kindly wit | D |
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| He brings no pageants of the past | E |
| To wile our hearts away | F |
| But wins our love for those who cast | E |
| Their lot with ours to day | F |
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| He gives us laughter glad and long | G |
| He gives us tears as pure | H |
| He shames us with the published wrong | G |
| We meted to the poor | I |
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| Through webs and dust and weather stains | J |
| His sunlike genius paints | K |
| On life's transfigured chancel panes | J |
| The angels and the saints | K |
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| He bade us to a lordly feast | L |
| And gave us of his best | M |
| And vanished while the mirth increased | L |
| To be Another's guest | M |
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| For Death had summoned him in haste | N |
| Where hands of the Divine | O |
| Pour out for him who toiled to taste | N |
| The Paradisal wine | O |
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| Well God be thanked we did not wait | P |
| His greatness to discern | Q |
| By funeral lights in that Too Late | P |
| When ashes fill the urn | Q |
Mary Hannay Foott
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