Is It Not Sweet To Think, Hereafter. (air.--haydn.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADAD EFEF AGAH IJIJ KLKM| Is it not sweet to think hereafter | A |
| When the Spirit leaves this sphere | B |
| Love with deathless wing shall waft her | A |
| To those she long hath mourned for here | C |
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| Hearts from which 'twas death to sever | A |
| Eyes this world can ne'er restore | D |
| There as warm as bright as ever | A |
| Shall meet us and be lost no more | D |
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| When wearily we wander asking | E |
| Of earth and heaven where are they | F |
| Beneath whose smile we once lay basking | E |
| Blest and thinking bliss would stay | F |
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| Hope still lifts her radiant finger | A |
| Pointing to the eternal Home | G |
| Upon whose portal yet they linger | A |
| Looking back for us to come | H |
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| Alas alas doth Hope deceive us | I |
| Shall friendship love shall all those ties | J |
| That bind a moment and then leave us | I |
| Be found again where nothing dies | J |
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| Oh if no other boon were given | K |
| To keep our hearts from wrong and stain | L |
| Who would not try to win a Heaven | K |
| Where all we love shall live again | M |
Thomas Moore
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