Mirth And Mourning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFE GHGH AIAI GJGJ KHL AMAM HNH OPOP QRQR STSU HMHM VDVD HWH M| 'O cast away your sorrow | A |
| A while at least be gay | B |
| If grief must come tomorrow | A |
| At least be glad today | B |
| 'How can you still be sighing | C |
| When smiles are everywhere | D |
| The little birds are flying | C |
| So blithely through the air | D |
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| 'The sunshine glows so brightly | E |
| O'er all the blooming earth | F |
| And every heart beats lightly | E |
| Each face is full of mirth ' | - |
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| 'I always feel the deepest gloom | G |
| When day most brightly shines | H |
| When Nature shows the fairest bloom | G |
| My spirit most repines | H |
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| 'For in the brightest noontide glow | A |
| The dungeon's light is dim | I |
| Though freshest winds around us blow | A |
| No breath can visit him | I |
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| 'If he must sit in twilight gloom | G |
| Can I enjoy the sight | J |
| Of mountains clad in purple bloom | G |
| And rocks in sunshine bright | J |
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| 'My heart may well be desolate | K |
| These tears may well arise | H |
| While prison wall and iron grate | L |
| Oppress his weary eyes ' | - |
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| 'But think of him tomorrow | A |
| And join your comrades now | M |
| That constant cloud of sorrow | A |
| Ill suits so young a brow | M |
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| 'Hark how their merry voices | H |
| Are sounding far and near | N |
| While all the world rejoices | H |
| Can you sit moping here ' | - |
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| 'When others' hearts most lightly bound | O |
| Mine feels the most oppressed | P |
| When smiling faces greet me round | O |
| My sorrow will not rest | P |
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| 'I think of him whose faintest smile | Q |
| Was sunshine to my heart | R |
| Whose lightest word could care beguile | Q |
| And blissful thoughts impart | R |
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| 'I think how he would bless that sun | S |
| And love this glorious scene | T |
| I think of all that has been done | S |
| And all that might have been | U |
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| 'Those sparkling eyes that blessed me so | H |
| Are dim with weeping now | M |
| And blighted hope and burning woe | H |
| Have ploughed that marble brow | M |
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| 'What waste of youth what hopes destroyed | V |
| What days of pining care | D |
| What weary nights of comfort void | V |
| Art thou condemned to bear | D |
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| 'O if my love must suffer so | H |
| And wholly for my sake | W |
| What marvel that my tears should flow | H |
| Or that my heart should break ' | - |
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| Zerona | M |
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