Monica's Last Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC CBDC EFG EFG| 'Oh could thy grave at home at Carthage be ' | A |
| Care not for that and lay me where I fall | B |
| Everywhere heard will be the judgment call | B |
| But at God's altar oh remember me | C |
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| Thus Monica and died in Italy | C |
| Yet fervent had her longing been through all | B |
| Her course for home at last and burial | D |
| With her own husband by the Libyan sea | C |
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| Had been but at the end to her pure soul | E |
| All tie with all beside seem'd vain and cheap | F |
| And union before God the only care | G |
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| Creeds pass rites change no altar standeth whole | E |
| Yet we her memory as she pray'd will keep | F |
| Keep by this Life in God and union there | G |
Matthew Arnold
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