Vignettes 25 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGHIIJKKJLLMMNN OP MMQQRRSSTT| Fear has to do with sacred things | A |
| And more than all from Pity springs | A |
| Two school girls once the time is past | B |
| But ever will the memory last | B |
| This moral to my fancy drew | C |
| In colours brilliant deep and true | C |
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| Mute blooming one all wondering stands | D |
| The elder kisses oft her hands | D |
| Bends o'er with fainting fond caress | E |
| And languishes in strong distress | E |
| Clings to her shoulder were it meet | F |
| Seems wishing to embrace her feet | F |
| Like one impatient to implore | G |
| Who dreads the time is nearly o'er | H |
| To ask or to receive a boon | I |
| Which must be known and granted soon | I |
| A boon with life itself entwin'd | J |
| One that her lips refus'd to name | K |
| However oft the impulse came | K |
| Such was the picture but her mind | J |
| Forgetting self could not arise | L |
| To look in those unconscious eyes | L |
| The zeal that prompted were she free | M |
| To serve her friend on bended knee | M |
| Shrunk from the orphan's gaze just hurl'd | N |
| Lonely and poor upon the world | N |
| Unknowing yet her loss endeared | O |
| By its excess and therefore fear'd | P |
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| Thus has it ever seem'd to me | M |
| That Pity made a Deity | M |
| Of Mortal Suffering that her ray | Q |
| Melted all blame all scorn away | Q |
| That when her arms the dying fold | R |
| When her pure hands the loathsome hold | R |
| Disgust and Dread their power forego | S |
| The Aegis drops from Human Woe | S |
| Whose false and cruel glare alone | T |
| Turned other living hearts to stone | T |
Matilda Betham
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