Alas, My Brother! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEG AHAH IJIJ AFAF DKDL MEME JAJA NONO| P McD | A |
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| We waited for him and the anxious days | B |
| Melted to years and floated slowly by | C |
| We spoke of him kind words of lofty praise | B |
| Of yearning love and tender sympathy | D |
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| We laid by what was his with reverent care | E |
| Started in dreams to greet him coming home | F |
| But hope deferred left no relief but prayer | E |
| And heart sore longings breathed in one word Come | G |
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| We never dreamed of murderous ambush laid | A |
| By savage redskins greedy for the prey | H |
| Of him our darling in the forest laid | A |
| Alone alone ebbing his life away | H |
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| He who would not have harmed the meanest thing | I |
| Who carried gentleness to such excess | J |
| That to the stranger and the suffering | I |
| His purse meant help his touch was a caress | J |
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| Ah me that cruel far off land of gold | A |
| That lured him off beyond the ocean foam | F |
| To roam a stranger among strangers cold | A |
| His blank life only cheered by news from home | F |
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| The home that he was never more to see | D |
| While yet his heart was planning his return | K |
| Short sharp and swift the message came and he | D |
| Passed to his long home o'er the mystic bourne | L |
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| And while we watched for him the grass was green | M |
| Upon his grave swept by the summer air | E |
| There grow strange flowers passes the hunter keen | M |
| The stately caribou and grizly bear | E |
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| But never more his mother's eyes he'll bless | J |
| Or with a fond embrace his sisters meet | A |
| No brother's hand will he in welcome press | J |
| Nor his hound's bay tell of his coming feet | A |
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| To us remains the mourner's never more | N |
| And aching hearts and eyes with sorrow dim | O |
| Thou who at Bethany their sorrow bore | N |
| Draw nigh us also while we weep for him | O |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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