Tears, Idle Tears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIE JKCBE LMNOE| Tears idle tears I know not what they mean | A |
| Tears from the depth of some divine despair | B |
| Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes | C |
| In looking on the happy autumn fields | D |
| And thinking of the days that are no more | E |
| - | |
| Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail | F |
| That brings our friends up from the underworld | G |
| Sad as the last which reddens over one | H |
| That sinks with all we love below the verge | I |
| So sad so fresh the days that are no more | E |
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| Ah sad and strange as in dark summer dawns | J |
| The earliest pipe of half awakened birds | K |
| To dying ears when unto dying eyes | C |
| The casement slowly grows a glimmering square | B |
| So sad so strange the days that are no more | E |
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| Dear as remembered kisses after death | L |
| And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned | M |
| On lips that are for others deep as love | N |
| Deep as first love and wild with all regret | O |
| O Death in Life the days that are no more | E |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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