Domestic Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DEDF GHGH IJKJ HLHL MJNJWhy should such gloomy silence reign | A |
And why is all the house so drear | B |
When neither danger sickness pain | A |
Nor death nor want have entered here | B |
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We are as many as we were | B |
That other night when all were gay | C |
And full of hope and free from care | B |
Yet is there something gone away | C |
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The moon without as pure and calm | D |
Is shining as that night she shone | E |
But now to us she brings no balm | D |
For something from our hearts is gone | F |
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Something whose absence leaves a void | G |
A cheerless want in every heart | H |
Each feels the bliss of all destroyed | G |
And mourns the change but each apart | H |
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The fire is burning in the grate | I |
As redly as it used to burn | J |
But still the hearth is desolate | K |
Till mirth and love and PEACE return | J |
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'Twas PEACE that flowed from heart to heart | H |
With looks and smiles that spoke of heaven | L |
And gave us language to impart | H |
The blissful thoughts itself had given | L |
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Domestic peace best joy of earth | M |
When shall we all thy value learn | J |
White angel to our sorrowing hearth | N |
Return oh graciously return | J |
Anne Bronte
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