Views Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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When sinks my heart in hopeless gloomA
And life can shew no joy for meB
And I behold a yawning tombA
Where bowers and palaces should beB
In vain you talk of morbid dreamsC
In vain you gaily smiling sayD
That what to me so dreary seemsC
The healthy mind deems bright and gayD
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I too have smiled and thought like youE
But madly smiled and falsely deemedF
Truth led me to the present viewE
I'm waking now 'twas then I dreamedF
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I lately saw a sunset skyG
And stood enraptured to beholdH
Its varied hues of glorious dyeG
First fleecy clouds of shining goldH
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These blushing took a rosy hueE
Beneath them shone a flood of greenI
Nor less divine the glorious blueE
That smiled above them and betweenI
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I cannot name each lovely shadeJ
I cannot say how bright they shoneK
But one by one I saw them fadeJ
And what remained whey they were goneL
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Dull clouds remained of sombre hueE
And when their borrowed charm was o'erM
The azure sky had faded tooE
That smiled so softly bright beforeN
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So gilded by the glow of youthO
Our varied life looks fair and gayD
And so remains the naked truthO
When that false light is past awayD
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Why blame ye then my keener sightP
That clearly sees a world of woesQ
Through all the haze of golden lightP
That flattering Falsehood round it throwsQ
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When the young mother smiles aboveR
The first born darling of her heartS
Her bosom glows with earnest loveR
While tears of silent transport startS
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Fond dreamer little does she knowT
The anxious toil the sufferingU
The blasted hopes the burning woeT
The object of her joy will bringU
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Her blinded eyes behold not nowV
What soon or late must be his doomA
The anguish that will cloud his browV
The bed of death the dreary tombA
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As little know the youthful pairW
In mutual love supremely blestX
What weariness and cold despairW
Ere long will seize the aching breastX
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And even should Love and Faith remainY
The greatest blessings life can showT
Amid adversity and painY
To shine throughout with cheering glowT
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They do not see how cruel DeathZ
Comes on their loving hearts to partS
One feels not now the gasping breathZ
The rending of the earth bound heartS
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The soul's and body's agonyB
Ere she may sink to her reposeQ
The sad survivor cannot seeB
The grave above his darling closeA2
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Nor how despairing and aloneK
He then must wear his life awayD
And linger feebly toiling onB2
And fainting sink into decayD
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Oh Youth may listen patientlyB
While sad Experience tells her taleC2
But Doubt sits smiling in his eyeG
For ardent Hope will still prevailC2
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He hears how feeble Pleasure diesD2
By guilt destroyed and pain and woeT
He turns to Hope and she repliesD2
'Believe it not it is not so '-
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'Oh heed her not ' Experience saysE2
'For thus she whispered once to meB
She told me in my youthful daysF2
How glorious manhood's prime would beB
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When in the time of early SpringU
Too chill the winds that o'er me pass'dG2
She said each coming day would bringU
A fairer heaven a gentler blastG2
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And when the sun too seldom beamedF
The sky o'ercast too darkly frownedH2
The soaking rain too constant streamedF
And mists too dreary gathered roundH2
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'She told me Summer's glorious rayD
Would chase those vapours all awayD
And scatter glories roundH2
With sweetest music fill the treesI2
Load with rich scent the gentle breezeI2
And strew with flowers the groundH2
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But when beneath that scorching rayD
I languished weary through the dayD
While birds refused to singU
Verdure decayed from field and treeB
And panting Nature mourned with meB
The freshness of the SpringU
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Wait but a little while she saidJ2
Till Summer's burning days are fledJ2
And Autumn shall restoreN
With golden riches of her ownK
And Summer's glories mellowed downK2
The freshness you deploreN
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And long I waited but in vainY
That freshness never came againL2
Though Summer passed awayD
Though Autumn's mists hung cold and chillM2
And drooping nature languished stillM2
And sank into decayD
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Till wintry blasts foreboding blewE
Through leafless trees and then I knewE
That Hope was all a dreamN2
But thus fond youth she cheated meB
And she will prove as false to theeB
Though sweet her words may seem '-
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Stern prophet Cease thy bodings direO2
Thou canst not quench the ardent fireM
That warms the breast of youthO
Oh let it cheer him while it mayD
And gently gently die awayD
Chilled by the damps of truthO
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Tell him that earth is not our restX
Its joys are empty frail at bestX
And point beyond the skyG
But gleams of light may reach us hereP2
And hope the roughest path can cheerQ2
Then do not bid it flyG
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Though hope may promise joys that stillM2
Unkindly time will ne'er fulfilM2
Or if they come at allM2
We never find them unalloyedR2
Hurtful perchance or soon destroyedR2
They vanish or they pallM2
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Yet hope itself a brightness throwsQ
O'er all our labours and our woesQ
While dark foreboding CareW
A thousand ills will oft portendS2
That Providence may ne'er intendS2
The trembling heart to bearW
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Or if they come it oft appearsT2
Our woes are lighter than our fearsT2
And far more bravely borneU2
Then let us not enhance our doomA
But e'en in midnight's blackest gloomA
Expect the rising mornU2
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Because the road is rough and longV2
Shall we despise the skylark's songV2
That cheers the wanderer's wayD
Or trample down with reckless feetW2
The smiling flowerets bright and sweetW2
Because they soon decayD
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Pass pleasant scenes unnoticed byG
Because the next is bleak and drearW
Or not enjoy a smiling skyG
Because a tempest may be nearW
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No while we journey on our wayD
We'll notice every lovely thingU
And ever as they pass awayD
To memory and hope we'll clingU
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And though that awful river flowsQ
Before us when the journey's pastG2
Perchance of all the pilgrim's woesQ
Most dreadful shrink not 'tis the lastG2
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Though icy cold and dark and deepX2
Beyond it smiles that blessed shoreW
Where none shall suffer none shall weepX2
And bliss shall reign for evermoreW
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ActonY2

Anne Bronta<<



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