Mary's Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE FGHG CIAI JHKH LMLM NOLO PBNB LQRS LDAT| Mary ah me gentle Mary | A |
| Can it be you're lying there | B |
| Pale and still and cold as marble | C |
| You that was so young and fair | B |
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| Seemeth it as yestereven | D |
| When the golden autumn smiled | E |
| On our meeting gentle Mary | A |
| You were then a very child | E |
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| Busy fingers flitting footsteps | F |
| Never resting all day long | G |
| Shy and bashful and the sweet voice | H |
| Ever breaking into song | G |
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| Always gentle kind and thoughtful | C |
| Blameless and so free from art | I |
| 'Twas no wonder one so lovely | A |
| Found a place within my heart | I |
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| You while life was in its spring time | J |
| Made the Scripture Mary's choice | H |
| Jesus saw you loved you called you | K |
| And you listened to His voice | H |
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| Ever patient and rejoicing | L |
| Shielded thus from unseen harm | M |
| On you journeyed safely leaning | L |
| On an everlasting arm | M |
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| Three short years have not yet passed us | N |
| Flitting rapidly away | O |
| Since we shared in the rejoicing | L |
| On your happy bridal day | O |
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| He the lover of your childhood | P |
| Won a bride both good and fair | B |
| Three short years have not yet passed us | N |
| Mary dear and now you're there | B |
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| Well may he grow sick with weeping | L |
| And with sore heart mourn his loss | Q |
| Sadly look on those two babies | R |
| Left so early motherless | S |
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| Not for thee we weep my darling | L |
| An eternal gain is thine | D |
| We weep because we dearly loved thee | A |
| And for those you left behind | T |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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