It Is Not The Tear At This Moment Shed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCC CDCDEFEF| It is not the tear at this moment shed | A |
| When the cold turf has just been laid o'er him | B |
| That can tell how beloved was the friend that's fled | A |
| Or how deep in our hearts we deplore him | B |
| 'Tis the tear through many a long day wept | C |
| 'Tis life's whole path o'ershaded | C |
| 'Tis the one remembrance fondly kept | C |
| When all lighter griefs have faded | C |
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| Thus his memory like some holy light | C |
| Kept alive in our hearts will improve them | D |
| For worth shall look fairer and truth more bright | C |
| When we think how he lived but to love them | D |
| And as fresher flowers the sod perfume | E |
| Where buried saints are lying | F |
| So our hearts shall borrow a sweetening bloom | E |
| From the image he left there in dying | F |
Thomas Moore
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