At Last Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCDB EEEFGBGF HHHIDDCI BBBJKKKJ LLLMNNNM OOOFIIIF| Into a temple vast and dim | A |
| Solemn and vast and dim | A |
| Just when the last sweet Vesper Hymn | A |
| Was floating far away | B |
| With eyes that tabernacled tears | C |
| Her heart the home of tears | C |
| And cheeks wan with the woes of years | D |
| A woman went one day | B |
| - | |
| And one by one adown the aisles | E |
| Adown the long lone aisles | E |
| Their faces bright with holy smiles | E |
| That follow after prayer | F |
| The worshipers in silence passed | G |
| In silence slowly passed away | B |
| The woman knelt until the last | G |
| Had left her lonely there | F |
| - | |
| A holy hush came o'er the place | H |
| O'er the holy place | H |
| The shadows kissed her woe worn face | H |
| Her forehead touched the floor | I |
| The wreck that drifted thro' the years | D |
| Sin driven thro' the years | D |
| Was floating o'er the tide of tears | C |
| To Mercy's golden shore | I |
| - | |
| Her lips were sealed they could not pray | B |
| They sighed but could not pray | B |
| All words of prayer had died away | B |
| From them long years ago | J |
| But ah from out her eyes there rose | K |
| Sad from her eyes there rose | K |
| The prayer of tears which swiftest goes | K |
| To Heaven winged with woe | J |
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| With weary tears her weary eyes | L |
| Her joyless weary eyes | L |
| Wailed forth a rosary and her sighs | L |
| And sobs strung all the beads | M |
| The while before her spirit's gaze | N |
| Her contrite spirit's gaze | N |
| Moved all the mysteries of her days | N |
| And histories of her deeds | M |
| - | |
| Still as a shadow while she wept | O |
| So desolately wept | O |
| Up thro' the long lone aisle she crept | O |
| Unto an altar fair | F |
| Mother her pale lips said no more | I |
| Could say no more | I |
| The wreck at last reached Mercy's shore | I |
| For Mary's shrine was there | F |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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