Lines On The Death Of Joseph Atkinson, Esq., Of Dublin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK| If ever life was prosperously cast | A |
| If ever life was like the lengthened flow | B |
| Of some sweet music sweetness to the last | A |
| 'Twas his who mourned by many sleeps below | B |
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| The sunny temper bright where all is strife | C |
| The simple heart above all worldly wiles | D |
| Light wit that plays along the calm of life | C |
| And stirs its languid surface into smiles | D |
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| Pure charity that comes not in a shower | E |
| Sudden and loud oppressing what it feeds | F |
| But like the dew with gradual silent power | E |
| Felt in the bloom it leaves along the meads | F |
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| The happy grateful spirit that improves | G |
| And brightens every gift by fortune given | H |
| That wander where it will with those it loves | I |
| Makes every place a home and home a heaven | H |
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| All these were his Oh thou who read'st this stone | J |
| When for thyself thy children to the sky | K |
| Thou humbly prayest ask this boon alone | J |
| That ye like him may live like him may die | K |
Thomas Moore
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