To The Nuns Of Bodney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWKXYZA2 B2C2D2BKE2F2G2| Ye holy women say will ye accept | A |
| The passing tribute of a humble friend | B |
| Stranger indeed to you and to your faith | C |
| But O I hope not stranger to the zeal | D |
| Which warm'd your bosoms in Religion's cause | E |
| When impious men commanded you to break | F |
| The vow which bound your souls and which in youth | G |
| Warm Piety's emphatic lips had made | H |
| Say will ye suffer me on that rude tomb | I |
| Where she reposes whose benignant smile | J |
| Whose animated life inspiring eye | K |
| And faded form majestic still appears | L |
| In Thought's delusive hour to shed a tear | M |
| On her whose sainted look though seen but once | N |
| I never can forget till Time shall wrap | O |
| The veil of Death around me and make dumb | P |
| The voice of Memory Ah how low she lies | Q |
| No marble monument to speak her praise | R |
| And tell the world that here a DILLON rests | S |
| One who in beauty's prime forsook the world | T |
| And self bereav'd of all it holds most dear | U |
| Retir'd to pass the pilgrimage of life | V |
| In solemn prayer and peaceful solitude | W |
| Ah vain desire Ambition's scowling eye | K |
| Must see the cloister as the palace low | X |
| And meek ey'd Quiet quit her last abode | Y |
| Ere he can pause to look upon the wreck | Z |
| And rue the wild impatience of his hand | A2 |
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| Hail blessed spirit This rude cypher'd stone | B2 |
| On which a sister's pensive eye shall muse | C2 |
| In sorrow and another relative | D2 |
| In sweet though mournful recollection bend | B |
| Shall call a tear into the stranger's eye | K |
| Whene'er he hears the tale yet make him proud | E2 |
| That Britain's hospitable land should yield | F2 |
| All that you could accept an humble grave | G2 |
Matilda Betham
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