A Reverie ["those Hearts Of Ours -- How Strange! How Strange!"] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGH IIJJ KKLL MNOO PPQQ RRPP KKOO SSTT LLUU VVPP DDWW XXYY ZZLL A2A2B2B2 C2C2HG| Those hearts of ours how strange how strange | A |
| How they yearn to ramble and love to range | A |
| Down through the vales of the years long gone | B |
| Up through the future that fast rolls on | C |
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| To days are dull so they wend their ways | D |
| Back to their beautiful yesterdays | D |
| The present is blank so they wing their flight | E |
| To future to morrows where all seems bright | E |
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| Build them a bright and beautiful home | F |
| They'll soon grow weary and want to roam | F |
| Find them a spot without sorrow or pain | G |
| They may stay a day but they're off again | H |
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| Those hearts of ours how wild how wild | I |
| They're as hard to tame as an Indian child | I |
| They're as restless as waves on the sounding sea | J |
| Like the breeze and the bird are they fickle and free | J |
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| Those hearts of ours how lone how lone | K |
| Ever forever they mourn and moan | K |
| Let them revel in joy let them riot in cheer | L |
| The revelry o'er they're all the more drear | L |
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| Those hearts of ours how warm how warm | M |
| Like the sun's bright rays like the Summer's charm | N |
| How they beam and burn how they gleam and glow | O |
| Their flash and flame hide but ashes below | O |
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| Those hearts of ours how cold how cold | P |
| Like December's snow on the waste or wold | P |
| And though our Decembers melt soon into May | Q |
| Hearts know Decembers that pass not away | Q |
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| Those hearts of ours how deep how deep | R |
| You may sound the sea where the corals sleep | R |
| Where never a billow hath rumbled or rolled | P |
| Depths still the deeper our hearts hide and hold | P |
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| Where the wild storm's tramp hath ne'er been known | K |
| The wrecks of the sea lie low and lone | K |
| Thus the heart's surface may sparkle and glow | O |
| There are wrecks far down there are graves below | O |
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| Those hearts of ours but after all | S |
| How shallow and narrow how tiny and small | S |
| Like scantiest streamlet or Summer's least rill | T |
| They're as easy to empty as easy to fill | T |
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| One hour of storm and how the streams pour | L |
| One hour of sun and the streams are no more | L |
| One little grief how the tears gush and glide | U |
| One smile flow they ever so fast they are dried | U |
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| Those hearts of ours how wise how wise | V |
| They can lift their thoughts till they touch the skies | V |
| They can sink their shafts like a miner bold | P |
| Where wisdom's mines hide their pearls and gold | P |
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| Aloft they soar with undazzled gaze | D |
| Where the halls of the Day King burn and blaze | D |
| Or they fly with a wing that will never fail | W |
| O'er the sky's dark sea where the star ships sail | W |
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| Those hearts of ours what fools what fools | X |
| How they laugh at wisdom her cant and rules | X |
| How they waste their powers and when wasted grieve | Y |
| For what they have squandered but cannot retrieve | Y |
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| Those hearts of ours how strong how strong | Z |
| Let a thousand sorrows around them throng | Z |
| They can bear them all and a thousand more | L |
| And they're stronger then than they were before | L |
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| Those hearts of ours how weak how weak | A2 |
| But a single word of unkindness speak | A2 |
| Like a poisoned shaft like a viper's fang | B2 |
| That one slight word leaves a life long pang | B2 |
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| Those hearts of ours but I've said enough | C2 |
| As I find that my rhyme grows rude and rough | C2 |
| I'll rest me now but I'll come again | H |
| Some other day to resume my strain | G |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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