Tears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DBBD EFGEFGMourn that which will not come again | A |
The joy the strength of early years | B |
Bow down thy head and let thy tears | C |
Water the grave where hope lies slain | D |
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For tears are like a summer rain | D |
To murmur in a mourner's ears | B |
To soften all the field of fears | B |
To moisten valleys parched with pain | D |
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And though thy tears will not awake | E |
What lies beneath of young or fair | F |
And sleeps so sound it draws no breath | G |
Yet watered thus the sod may break | E |
In flowers which sweeten all the air | F |
And fill with life the place of death | G |
Robert Fuller Murray
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