On The Death Of Dr. Samuel Marshall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCCDEFFGHCCCCCC CCIIJJCC| Through thickest glooms look back immortal shade | A |
| On that confusion which thy death has made | A |
| Or from Olympus' height look down and see | B |
| A Town involv'd in grief bereft of thee | B |
| Thy Lucy sees thee mingle with the dead | C |
| And rends the graceful tresses from her head | C |
| Wild in her woe with grief unknown opprest | C |
| Sigh follows sigh deep heaving from her breast | C |
| Too quickly fled ah whither art thou gone | D |
| Ah lost for ever to thy wife and son | E |
| The hapless child thine only hope and heir | F |
| Clings round his mother's neck and weeps his sorrows there | F |
| The loss of thee on Tyler's soul returns | G |
| And Boston for her dear physician mourns | H |
| When sickness call'd for Marshall's healing hand | C |
| With what compassion did his soul expand | C |
| In him we found the father and the friend | C |
| In life how lov'd how honour'd in his end | C |
| And must not then our AEsculapius stay | C |
| To bring his ling'ring infant into day | C |
| The babe unborn in the dark womb is tost | C |
| And seems in anguish for its father lost | C |
| Gone is Apollo from his house of earth | I |
| But leaves the sweet memorials of his worth | I |
| The common parent whom we all deplore | J |
| From yonder world unseen must come no more | J |
| Yet 'midst our woes immortal hopes attend | C |
| The spouse the sire the universal friend | C |
Phillis Wheatley
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