Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLM NONOPP QRQRSS TUTUVV SDSDEE WQWQXX YZYZVV| Hope is the shadowy essence of a wish | A |
| A fond desire which floats before our eyes | B |
| With lurid aberration feverish | A |
| We clutch the shadow which elusive flies | B |
| Though at our grasp the mocking fancy flees | C |
| Hope still pursues and soothes realities | C |
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| Hope as a mirage on the desert waste | D |
| Lures the lost traveler by a vision fair | E |
| Of gushing fountains which he may not taste | D |
| Of streamlets cool depicted on the air | E |
| With tongue outstretched and parched he onward speeds | F |
| But as he moves the phantom scene recedes | F |
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| In the foul dungeon or the narrow cell | G |
| The prisoner doth pace his lonely beat | H |
| And as he treads his shackles clank a knell | G |
| Responsive to each movement of his feet | H |
| Yet through his grated window he discerns | I |
| The star of hope which ever brightly burns | I |
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| A noble ship her ponderous anchor weighs | J |
| Glides from the harbor and is lost to sight | K |
| A young wife waves farewell As many days | J |
| In passing turn her golden tresses white | K |
| She scans the horizon through a mist of tears | L |
| Hopes for that vanished sail which ne'er appears | M |
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| A galley slave in age and clime remote | N |
| Chained to his seat unwilling plies the oar | O |
| Before his eyes fond dreams of freedom float | N |
| He hopes amid the battle's crash and roar | O |
| And as the waves the imprisoned wretches drown | P |
| Hopes as his fetters draw him swiftly down | P |
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| A mighty host in force of arms we see | Q |
| With march invasive cross a boundary line | R |
| At its approach no freemen turn and flee | Q |
| Each with his life defends his family shrine | R |
| As burning homes illuminate the sky | S |
| With ghastly light they hope and fight and die | S |
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| Beside the bed where rests the pallid form | T |
| Of loved one stricken with the fever's breath | U |
| E'en when the loving hands no longer warm | T |
| Portend the sure and swift approach of Death | U |
| Hope holds the spirit in its house of clay | V |
| And with that spirit only soars away | V |
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| The guilty wretch for murder doomed to die | S |
| Hoped in his dungeon as the death watch paced | D |
| Hoped as the death cap veiled his evil eye | S |
| Hoped as the noose around his neck was placed | D |
| Hoped as the chaplain read his final prayer | E |
| Hoped as he struggled in the viewless air | E |
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| In the glad sunshine of life's vernal spring | W |
| Hope buoys the spirit with expectancy | Q |
| Hope with her dulcet voice and fluttering wing | W |
| Sings of life's goal with siren harmony | Q |
| When silvered temples tell that life declines | X |
| That goal though yet unreached still brightly shines | X |
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| Yes As through failure and vicissitude | Y |
| We sail along with many an adverse wind | Z |
| Hope plants her beacon in the tempest rude | Y |
| And leads with generous radiance unconfined | Z |
| And when the yawning grave receives its prey | V |
| Hope speeds the spirit on its astral way | V |
Alfred Castner King
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