A Song Before Grief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDC AEAEDFE AGAGAG HAHAHA| Sorrow my friend | A |
| When shall you come again | B |
| The wind is slow and the bent willows send | A |
| Their silvery motions wearily down the plain | C |
| The bird is dead | D |
| That sang this morning through the summer rain | C |
| - | |
| Sorrow my friend | A |
| I owe my soul to you | E |
| And if my life with any glory end | A |
| Of tenderness for others and the words are true | E |
| Said honoring when I'm dead | D |
| Sorrow to you the mellow praise the funeral | F |
| wreath are due | E |
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| And yet my friend | A |
| When love and joy are strong | G |
| Your terrible visage from my sight I rend | A |
| With glances to blue heaven Hovering along | G |
| By mine your shadow led | A |
| Away I shriek nor dare to work my new sprung mercies wrong | G |
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| Still you are near | H |
| Who can your care withstand | A |
| When deep eternity shall look most clear | H |
| Sending bright waves to kiss the trembling land | A |
| My joy shall disappear | H |
| A flaming torch thrown to the golden sea by your pale hand | A |
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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