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The Hand In The Dark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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How calm the spangled city spread below	A
How cool the night How fair the starry skies	B
How sweet the dewy breezes But I know	A
What under all their seeming beauty lies	B
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That million fibred heart alive is wrung	C
With every grief that human creatures fear	D
Could its dumb anguish find a fitting tongue	C
The very dead within their graves would hear	E
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It calls me from my rest that voiceless wail	F
Of Lazarus at the gate my kith and kin	G
Whose cruise and cake and staff and beacon fail	F
The famished crowd that cannot enter in	G
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How can I take my ease amid this pain	H
These pangs these tears these crimes that never cease	I
While homeless children cry for bread in vain	H
How can I eat How can I sleep in peace	I
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Poor comrades of the fight that have no place	J
Brothers and sisters born to want and wrong	K
Born weak and maimed to run a hopeless race	J
Lost at the start against the hale and strong	K
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Poor scapegoats of the wilderness that fast	L
For those who feast And ah poor feasters too	M
They also thirst and hunger at the last	L
And this is Life and all the Race can do	M
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Vain vain the listening ear the questioning gaze	N
Shoreless unplumbed the ether ocean lies	B
Above these roofs beyond the smoke and haze	N
The Infinite alive with watching eyes	B
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To see our orb of sorrow whirling there	O
The tiny swarm of struggling things that curse	P
Their subject province and yet calmly dare	O
To claim the kingship of the Universe	P
Dread cloud of witnesses to earth's disgrace	J
Earth is my trust I am afraid to look	Q
Those still and stern accusers in the face	J
And haste to hide in my familiar nook	Q
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My little nook where is it Have I none	R
I grow confused betwixt the sea and shore	S
I had some lamps to guide me one by one	R
They flashed and failed and now I have no more	S
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Where am I Oh where am I I can feel	T
To feel my torment but I cannot see	U
I cannot hear My brain begins to reel	T
My heart to faint Almighty speak to me	U
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Help me Or in Thy pity take me hence	V
While feeling heart and thinking brain are whole	W
Or give me any rag of carnal sense	V
So it suffice to wrap my naked soul	W
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No word No sign Yet something in the air	O
Soothes like a cool hand on a fevered brow	X
Replenished from the ashes of despair	O
I rise renewed Belov d where art thou	X
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She sleeps She stirs She hears the lightest fall	Y
Of foot familiar with her chamber floor	S
Her spirit answers to my spirit's call	Y
Come home Come home And I am saved once more	S
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Bringing no leaf of hope alone and late	Z
Spent and wing weary famished for a crumb	A2
The wandering dove heads back to nest and mate	Z
My Love and Comforter I come I come	A2
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Here is the welcome threshold of my ark	B2
My island home amid the trackless flood	C2
Her hand shuts out the Silence and the Dark	B2
Her pulse thrills life into my fainting blood	C2
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She draws me down upon that couch of bliss	D2
Her faithful arms her tender mother breast	E2
I clasp her close those sweetest lips I kiss	D2
And at long last I have my hour of rest	E2
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Thou too my love hast wandered far and wide	F2
And hast come home where all thy wanderings cease	I
The door is shut Thy mate is at thy side	F2
Here is thy long sought pillow Sleep in peace	I
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Heed not the patter of the weeping eaves	G2
The groan of branches bending to the rain	H
The sad tap tapping of dead autumn leaves	G2
Like ghostly fingers on the window pane	H
The wind borne echoings from east and west	E2
Of weeping woe and wailing agony	U
All night they cry round thy beleaguered nest	E2
But fear them not for thou art safe with me	U
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Let the sad world spin on a trail of shame	H2
Amongst the myriad worlds Whate'er befalls	I2
The great God knows that we are not to blame	H2
Our world is here within our chamber walls	I2
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In this asylum secret and apart	J2
Whereof we keep the one and only key	U
Rest thee poor tired heart upon my heart	J2
As all my weary being rests in thee	U
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Good night Good night Sleep deep and well my bride	F2
The fight goes on but we have won release	I
Our wounds are healed our tears are shed and dried	F2
Let the storms rage they cannot break our peace	I
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Peace is it peace What is that form of fear	D
That looms ahead What distillation sours	K2
The joy of life when thou alive art near	D
And nought seems wanting to the perfect hours	K2
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What chills my passion when I love thee most	L2
And dims my eyes and veils thy face and slips	M2
An unseen shadow like a creeping ghost	L2
Betwixt my hungering kisses and thy lips	M2
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What amid richest plenty starves me thus	N2
What is it steals my soul's content and thine	O2
That sits a guest at marriage feast with us	N2
And mixes poison with the food and wine	O2
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A vision comes A graveyard all alone	P2
A small green mound a withered funeral wreath	Q2
Love's last drear symbol of a graven stone	P2
And Life and I but worthless dust beneath	Q2
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There weep the dews and winds of winter blow	A
The soft breeze rustles in the bending grass	R2
The cold rain falls there and the drifting snow	A
But tears fall not nor lover's footsteps pass	R2
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Bees hum all day amid the young spring leaves	G2
The rooks call loudly from the elm tree bough	X
The sparrows twitter in the old church eaves	G2
But no voice cries for me or calls me now	X
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Bright beams of morning compass me about	S2
The stars shine o'er me and the pale moonlight	T2
But I that lit and warmed thee am gone out	S2
Like a burnt candle in eternal night	T2
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Earth to the earth upon this churchyard slope	U2
Ashes to ashes nothing to the nought	T2
No tryst between us and no star of hope	U2
To light the path so passionately sought	T2
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And still the sands between thy fingers run	R
Desires delights ambitions days and years	V2
Rich hours of life for thee though mine are done	R
Too full for vain regrets too brief for tears	W2
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I have lost all but thou dost hold and save	X2
Adding new treasure to thy rifled store	S
While weeds grow long on the deserted grave	X2
Where sleeps thy mate who may be thine no more	S
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This is the fate I fear the ghost I see	U
The dream I dream at night the thought I dread	T2
That thus 't'will be someday with thee and me	U
Thou fain to live while I am doubly dead	T2
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Thou still defiant of our common foe	A
I vanquished quite the once resplendent crown	Y2
Of all thy joys become a dragging woe	A
To be lopped off lest it should weigh thee down	Y2
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I once thy sap of life a wasteful drain	H
On thy green vigour like a rotten branch	Z2
I once thy health a paralysing pain	H
A bleeding wound that thou must haste to stanch	Z2
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Because the dead are dead the past is gone	A3
Because dear life is sweet and time is brief	B3
And some must fall and some must still press on	C3
Nor waste scant strength in unavailing grief	B3
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I blame thee not I know what must be must	T2
Nor shall I suffer when apart from thee	U
I shall not care when I am mouldering dust	T2
That once quick love is in the grave with me	U
Cast me away thou knowest I shall not fret	T2
Take thy due joys I shall not bear the cost	T2
I that am thus forgotten shall forget	T2
Nor shed one tear for all that I have lost	T2
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Not then the sting of death the day of dole	W
When corpse of love lies under funeral pall	D3
'Tis now I wear the sackcloth on my soul	W
Bereaved and lonely while possessed of all	Y
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If thou wert dead belov d should I turn	E3
Deaf heart to memory when of thee she spake	F3
Should I when this pure fire had ceased to burn	E3
Seek other hearths for sordid comfort's sake	F3
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No no Yet I am mortal I am weak	G3
And any fire is warm in wintry cold	T2
Alas alas The fateful years will wreak	G3
Their own stern will on ours when all is told	T2