Drowned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEEFFGGHHII JJKILLFFGGMMNN IIOOIIPPQQFootnote In the Grand River at Brantford July th Miss Jessie Hamilton adopted daughter of C H Waterous Esq Brantford aged years and months and Miss Ella E Murton only daughter of John W Murton Esq Hamilton aged years | A |
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The morning dawned without a cloud | B |
But evening came with pall and shroud | B |
With muffled step and bated breath | C |
And mournful whisperings of death | C |
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Young lips that in the morning sung | D |
The summer's opening flowers among | D |
Were hushed and cold young laughing eyes | E |
That met the dawn with sweet surprise | E |
Were darkly sealed young feet that pressed | F |
The dewy turf with glad unrest | F |
Were cold and stirless never more | G |
To tread the paths they trod before | G |
And they who in the morning strayed | H |
In fawn like freedom down the glade | H |
In solemn dreamless slumber lay | I |
To wake no more at fall of day | I |
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O stern remorseless sullen Tide | J |
O dark Flood never satisfied | J |
Couldst thou not pity when to thee | K |
Those young lambs sped so trustingly | I |
Nay nay the tempest's stormy wrath | L |
Spares not the lily in its path | L |
The tameless river will not rest | F |
To heed the rose leaf on its breast | F |
A moment and the quiet shore | G |
Heard a low wail and heard no more | G |
And then with calm unaltered mien | M |
The river glided on serene | M |
With what a weight of anguish fraught | N |
Unconscious of the woe it wrought | N |
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Dust unto dust O God thy way | I |
Strange and mysterious seems to day | I |
As in the darkness of the tomb | O |
What but an hour ago was bloom | O |
And beauty now we hide away | I |
And leave to silence and decay | I |
Aid us in lowliness to bow | P |
And own how just and good art thou | P |
And though thou hidest still thy face | Q |
Trust the great love we may not trace | Q |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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