Her Going. - Suggested By A Picture. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCAB DEEFFDG HIIJGKL MNNOOMN APPQQAP REGSTRE UVVWXUV| She stood in the open door | A |
| She blessed them faint and low | B |
| I must go she said must go | B |
| Away from the light of the sun | C |
| Away from you every one | C |
| Must see your eyes no more | A |
| Your eyes that love me so | B |
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| I should not shudder thus | D |
| Nor weep nor be afraid | E |
| Nor cling to you so dismayed | E |
| Could I only pierce with ray eyes | F |
| Where the dark dark shadow lies | F |
| Where something hideous | D |
| Is hiding perhaps she said | G |
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| Then slowly she went from them | H |
| Went down the staircase grim | I |
| With trembling heart and limb | I |
| Her footfalls echoed | J |
| In the silence vast and dead | G |
| Like the notes of a requiem | K |
| Not sung but uttered | L |
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| For a little way and a black | M |
| She groped as grope the blind | N |
| Then a sudden radiance shined | N |
| And a vision her eyelids burned | O |
| All joyfully she turned | O |
| For a moment turned she back | M |
| And smiled at those behind | N |
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| There in the shadows drear | A |
| An angel sat serene | P |
| Of grave and tender mien | P |
| With whitest roses crowned | Q |
| A scythe lay on the ground | Q |
| As reaping time were near | A |
| A burnished scythe and a keen | P |
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| She did not start or pale | R |
| As the angel rose and laid | E |
| His hand on hers nor said | G |
| A word hut beckoned on | S |
| For a glorious meaning shone | T |
| On the lips that told no tale | R |
| And she followed him unafraid | E |
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| Her friends wept for a space | U |
| Then one said Be content | V |
| Surely some good is meant | V |
| For her our Beautiful | W |
| Some glorious good and full | X |
| Did you not see her face | U |
| Her dear smile as she went | V |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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