Remembrance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEDE FGHG IJIJ KLKL BMBM DNDN COCO PQPQ BFBH RSRS ITIU| You bid the minstrel strike the lute | A |
| And wake once more a soothing tone | B |
| Alas its strings untuned are mute | A |
| Or only echo moan for moan | B |
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| The flowers around it twined are dead | C |
| And those who wreathed them there are flown | B |
| The spring that gave them bloom is fled | C |
| And winter's frost is o'er them thrown | B |
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| Poor lute forgot 'mid strife and care | D |
| I fain would try thy strings once more | E |
| Perchance some lingering tone is there | D |
| Some cherished melody of yore | E |
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| If flowers that bloom no more are here | F |
| Their odors still around us cling | G |
| And though the loved are lost still dear | H |
| Their memories may wake the string | G |
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| I strike but lo the wonted thrill | I |
| Of joy in sorrowing cadence dies | J |
| Alas the minstrel's hand is chill | I |
| And the sad lute responsive sighs | J |
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| 'Tis ever thus our life begins | K |
| In Eden and all fruit seems sweet | L |
| We taste and knowledge with our sins | K |
| Creeps to the heart and spoils the cheat | L |
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| In youth the sun brings light alone | B |
| No shade then rests upon the sight | M |
| But when the beaming morn is flown | B |
| We see the shadows not the light | M |
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| I once found music every where | D |
| The whistle from the willow wrung | N |
| The string set in the window there | D |
| Sweet measures to my fancy flung | N |
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| But now this dainty lute is dead | C |
| Or answers but to sigh and wail | O |
| Echoing the voices of the fled | C |
| Passing before me dim and pale | O |
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| Yet angel forms are in that train | P |
| And One upon the still air flings | Q |
| Of woven melody a strain | P |
| Down trembling from Her heaven bent wings | Q |
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| 'Tis past that Speaking Form is flown | B |
| But memory's pleased and listening ear | F |
| Shall oft recall that choral tone | B |
| To love and poetry so dear | H |
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| And far away in after time | R |
| Shall blended Piety and Love | S |
| Find fond expression in the rhyme | R |
| Bequeathed to earth by One above | S |
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| Poor lute thy bounding pulse is still | I |
| Yet all thy silence I forgive | T |
| That thus thy last thy dying thrill | I |
| Would make Her gentle virtues live | U |
Sam G. Goodrich
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