Gone Before Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDC EFGCCG HHFCCF IIJKLM NNEOPE HHFOOF DDFQQF| IN MEMORY OF A PUPIL | A |
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| Thou art but gone before | B |
| Gone to that unknown shore | B |
| Toward which my feet are journeying swiftly on | C |
| Thou hast but laid thy head | D |
| First with the dreamless dead | D |
| I too shall come and share thy rest anon | C |
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| Methinks 'twas sweet to die | E |
| Ere childhood's purity | F |
| Had been polluted by sin's withering breath | G |
| Ere Care's pale haggard mien | C |
| Thy laughing eye had seen | C |
| Or thou hadst wept beside the bed of death | G |
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| We weep yet thou art blest | H |
| We mourn but thou'rt at rest | H |
| Well may we weep yet lost one not for thee | F |
| Not that thy race is run | C |
| Thy brief life journey done | C |
| And thou departed with thy Lord to be | F |
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| O no yet we may weep | I |
| That sin so strong so deep | I |
| A root within our tempted souls should have | J |
| That we with mortal fear | K |
| Still trembling doubting here | L |
| Should cling to Earth in terror of the grave | M |
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| To Earth whose very bloom | N |
| Speaks of the dust the tomb | N |
| Whose fairest blossoms round our footsteps die | E |
| Whose hopes are fraught with fears | O |
| Whose smiles are washed with tears | P |
| Whose sweetest songs are burdened with a sigh | E |
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| Sleep on thou early blest | H |
| No cares can mar thy rest | H |
| No years of grief and trial are for thee | F |
| No blighted hopes no fears | O |
| No wasted sin cursed years | O |
| Joy for thee little one thou'rt free aye free | F |
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| Now with the peaceful dead | D |
| Lay we thy beauteous head | D |
| No mourner's dirge for thee shall chanted be | F |
| So may we rest at last | Q |
| When all our toils are past | Q |
| And rise to tune an angel's harp with thee | F |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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