To A Lady And Her Children, On The Death Of Her Son And Their Brother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDECCFFGGCCCCHICC JJCCKLMMNN| O'erwhelming sorrow now demands my song | A |
| From death the overwhelming sorrow sprung | B |
| What flowing tears What hearts with grief opprest | C |
| What sighs on sighs heave the fond parent's breast | C |
| The brother weeps the hapless sisters join | D |
| Th' increasing woe and swell the crystal brine | E |
| The poor who once his gen'rous bounty fed | C |
| Droop and bewail their benefactor dead | C |
| In death the friend the kind companion lies | F |
| And in one death what various comfort dies | F |
| Th' unhappy mother sees the sanguine rill | G |
| Forget to flow and nature's wheels stand still | G |
| But see from earth his spirit far remov'd | C |
| And know no grief recals your best belov'd | C |
| He upon pinions swifter than the wind | C |
| Has left mortality's sad scenes behind | C |
| For joys to this terrestial state unknown | H |
| And glories richer than the monarch's crown | I |
| Of virtue's steady course the prize behold | C |
| What blissful wonders to his mind unfold | C |
| But of celestial joys I sing in vain | J |
| Attempt not muse the too advent'rous strain | J |
| No more in briny show'rs ye friends around | C |
| Or bathe his clay or waste them on the ground | C |
| Still do you weep still wish for his return | K |
| How cruel thus to wish and thus to mourn | L |
| No more for him the streams of sorrow pour | M |
| But haste to join him on the heav'nly shore | M |
| On harps of gold to tune immortal lays | N |
| And to your God immortal anthems raise | N |
Phillis Wheatley
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