Living Lost, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH IJIJ KKBB LMLMNNOO| Matron the children of whose love | A |
| Each to his grave in youth have passed | B |
| And now the mould is heaped above | A |
| The dearest and the last | B |
| Bride who dost wear the widow's veil | C |
| Before the wedding flowers are pale | C |
| Ye deem the human heart endures | D |
| No deeper bitterer grief than yours | D |
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| Yet there are pangs of keener wo | E |
| Of which the sufferers never speak | F |
| Nor to the world's cold pity show | E |
| The tears that scald the cheek | F |
| Wrung from their eyelids by the shame | G |
| And guilt of those they shrink to name | G |
| Whom once they loved with cheerful will | H |
| And love though fallen and branded still | H |
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| Weep ye who sorrow for the dead | I |
| Thus breaking hearts their pain relieve | J |
| And graceful are the tears ye shed | I |
| And honoured ye who grieve | J |
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| The praise of those who sleep in earth | K |
| The pleasant memory of their worth | K |
| The hope to meet when life is past | B |
| Shall heal the tortured mind at last | B |
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| But ye who for the living lost | L |
| That agony in secret bear | M |
| Who shall with soothing words accost | L |
| The strength of your despair | M |
| Grief for your sake is scorn for them | N |
| Whom ye lament and all condemn | N |
| And o'er the world of spirits lies | O |
| A gloom from which ye turn your eyes | O |
William Cullen Bryant
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