Doubting Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDB EEFCGGGH IIJCEEEJ KKLCMMML| WHERE are the swallows fled | A |
| Frozen and dead | A |
| Perchance upon some bleak and stormy shore | B |
| O doubting heart | C |
| Far over purple seas | D |
| They wait in sunny ease | D |
| The balmy southern breeze | D |
| To bring them to their northern homes once more | B |
| - | |
| Why must the flowers die | E |
| Prison d they lie | E |
| In the cold tomb heedless of tears or rain | F |
| O doubting heart | C |
| They only sleep below | G |
| The soft white ermine snow | G |
| While winter winds shall blow | G |
| To breathe and smile upon you soon again | H |
| - | |
| The sun has hid its rays | I |
| These many days | I |
| Will dreary hours never leave the earth | J |
| O doubting heart | C |
| The stormy clouds on high | E |
| Veil the same sunny sky | E |
| That soon for spring is nigh | E |
| Shall wake the summer into golden mirth | J |
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| Fair hope is dead and light | K |
| Is quench d in night | K |
| What sound can break the silence of despair | L |
| O doubting heart | C |
| Thy sky is overcast | M |
| Yet stars shall rise at last | M |
| Brighter for darkness past | M |
| And angels silver voices stir the air | L |
Adelaide Anne Procter
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