In Memory Of Charles Wentworth Upham, Jr. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG HIHI JKJK LBL MFMF NON LPLP| HE was all sunshine in his face | A |
| The very soul of sweetness shone | B |
| Fairest and gentlest of his race | A |
| None like him we can call our own | B |
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| Something there was of one that died | C |
| In her fresh spring time long ago | D |
| Our first dear Mary angel eyed | C |
| Whose smile it was a bliss to know | D |
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| Something of her whose love imparts | E |
| Such radiance to her day's decline | F |
| We feel its twilight in our hearts | E |
| Bright as the earliest morning shine | F |
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| Yet richer strains our eye could trace | A |
| That made our plainer mould more fair | G |
| That curved the lip with happier grace | A |
| That waved the soft and silken hair | G |
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| Dust unto dust the lips are still | H |
| That only spoke to cheer and bless | I |
| The folded hands lie white and chill | H |
| Unclasped from sorrow's last caress | I |
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| Leave him in peace he will not heed | J |
| These idle tears we vainly pour | K |
| Give back to earth the fading weed | J |
| Of mortal shape his spirit wore | K |
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| 'Shall I not weep my heartstrings torn | L |
| My flower of love that falls half blown | B |
| My youth uncrowned my life forlorn | L |
| A thorny path to walk alone ' | - |
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| O Mary one who bore thy name | M |
| Whose Friend and Master was divine | F |
| Sat waiting silent till He came | M |
| Bowed down in speechless grief like thine | F |
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| 'Where have ye laid him ' 'Come ' they say | N |
| Pointing to where the loved one slept | O |
| Weeping the sister led the way | N |
| And seeing Mary 'Jesus wept ' | - |
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| He weeps with thee with all that mourn | L |
| And He shall wipe thy streaming eyes | P |
| Who knew all sorrows woman born | L |
| Trust in his word thy dead shall rise | P |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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