Time-s Changes In A Household Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ DJBB KGLL MMNN OPQQ NNAA RRSS TTUU VVWW XXYY ZZA2B2| They were as fair and bright a band as ever filled with pride | A |
| Parental hearts whose task it was children beloved to guide | A |
| And every care that love upon its idols bright may shower | B |
| Was lavished with impartial hand upon each fair young flower | B |
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| Theirs was the father s merry hour sharing their childish bliss | C |
| The mother s soft breathed benison and tender nightly kiss | C |
| While strangers who by chance might see their joyous graceful play | D |
| To breathe some word of fondness kind would pause upon their way | D |
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| But years rolled on and in their course Time many changes brought | E |
| And sorrow in that household gay his silent power wrought | E |
| The sons had grown to gallant men of lofty heart and brow | F |
| The fairy like and joyous girls were thoughtful women now | F |
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| The hour of changes had arrived and slowly one by one | G |
| The playmates left the parent s roof their own career to run | G |
| The eldest born the mother s choice whose soft and holy smile | H |
| In childhood s days had told of heart as angel s free from guile | H |
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| Formed in resolve and scorning all earth s pleasures and its fame | I |
| Had offered up his life to God a teacher of His name | I |
| His spirit sighed not long on earth he found a quiet grave | J |
| Mid forests wild whose shades he d sought the Red man s soul to save | J |
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| Far diff rent was the stirring choice of his youthful brother gay | D |
| His was the glitt ring sword and flag the drum the war steed s neigh | J |
| And the proud spirit that had marked his childhood s earliest hour | B |
| Distinguished still the warrior brave in manhood s lofty power | B |
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| Alas for him and visions vain of fame that lured him on | K |
| An early grave in a distant land was the only goal he won | G |
| His gaze bedimmed that yearned for home rested on alien skies | L |
| And alien watchers wiped death s damps and closed his dying eyes | L |
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| A third with buoyant heart had sought far India s burning soil | M |
| Thinking to win wealth s treasures by a few years eager toil | M |
| But ere those years had sped their course from earth s cares he was free | N |
| He sleeps beneath the shadow of the date and mango tree | N |
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| But the sisters who had brightened once the home now desolate | O |
| Lived they to mourn each brother s loss was theirs a happier fate | P |
| In childhood s sports and youth s high dreams they d borne a happy part | Q |
| But severed they were doomed ere long in death to sleep apart | Q |
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| The tall and dark eyed girl whose laugh so full of silvery glee | N |
| Had ever told of spirit light from care and shadow free | N |
| Had early left her happy home the bright and envied bride | A |
| Of a husband whose ancestral name betokened wealth and pride | A |
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| Alas for her who in youth s hour had basked in love s sunshine | R |
| That husband stern deserted her in cold neglect to pine | R |
| The merry smile soon fled her lip the sparkling light her eye | S |
| In vain she sought a southern clime she only went to die | S |
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| And now of all the lovely band who d joined in mirth of old | T |
| There is alas but one sweet flower whose tale remains untold | T |
| She was the joy the pride of all that gentle girl and fair | U |
| With deep and dreamy azure eyes and shining golden hair | U |
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| E en her bold brothers in their youth were gentle when she played | V |
| From reckless sports from daring games their eager hands they stayed | V |
| And when amid their thoughtless mirth harsh feelings might awake | W |
| They ever yielded to her prayers and rested for her sake | W |
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| Oh hers was far the brightest lot in life s eventful race | X |
| She passed from earth ere care had left upon her brow one trace | X |
| She passed from earth with loving ones grouped round her dying bed | Y |
| And on a mother s tender breast rested her throbbing head | Y |
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| Twas thus that each beloved one of that bright joyous band | Z |
| Save her had found a lonely grave in a far distant land | Z |
| Yet murmurs gainst high heaven s decrees as impious were as vain | A2 |
| For in far happier regions will that household meet again | B2 |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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