In Memory Of An Actress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAA CDDCC EFGEE HIIHH JKKJJ LMMLL| Say little where she lies so let her rest | A |
| What cares she now for Fame and what for Art | B |
| What for applause She has played out her part | B |
| Her hands are folded calmly on her breast | A |
| God knows the best | A |
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| She has gone down as all must go to where | C |
| The players of the past are lying low | D |
| Players who played their parts out long ago | D |
| With the life hue still bright on lips and hair | C |
| And forehead fair | C |
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| Cheek's colour poise of head and flash of eye | E |
| Who will remember them when we are dead | F |
| Whom that is dead have we remember d | G |
| The end is one although we smile or sigh | E |
| We live we die | E |
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| Bitter to some is Death to some is sweet | H |
| Sweetest to youth and bitterest to age | I |
| But simple is the costume for the stage | I |
| The darkened stage of death and very meet | H |
| A winding sheet | H |
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| So we may fill our days with grief or mirth | J |
| Each as he pleases but what boots it all | K |
| When on the coffin lid the cold clods fall | K |
| Though we had been most eloquent on earth | J |
| Or dumb from birth | J |
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| So let her rest who perished in her prime | L |
| Surely through darkness she shall find the light | M |
| And though obscured to us in outer night | M |
| Shall play her part yet in a play sublime | L |
| In God's good time | L |
Victor James Daley
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