The Bride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHH IJKKLMNNOOPPQQRS SRTTIJUU HHBBVVWDXYCCZZA2A2B2 B2FFQQC2C2BB EESSD2D2SHE is standing by her loved one's side | A |
A young and a fair and a gentle bride | A |
But mournfulness hath crost her face | B |
Like shadows in a sunny place | B |
And wistfully her eye doth strain | C |
Across the blue and distant main | C |
My home my home I would I were | D |
Again in joyous gladness there | E |
My home my home I would I heard | F |
The singing voice like some small bird | F |
Of him our mother's youngest child | G |
With light soft step and features mild | G |
I would I saw that dear one now | H |
With the proud eye and noble brow | H |
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Whose very errors were more loved | I |
Than all our reason most approved | J |
And she my fairy sister she | K |
Who was the soul of childish glee | K |
Who loved me so oh let me hear | L |
Once more those tones familiar dear | M |
Which haunt my rest and I will smile | N |
Even as I used to do erewhile | N |
I know that some have fall'n asleep | O |
I know that some have learnt to weep | O |
But my heart never feels the same | P |
As when those light steps round me came | P |
And sadness weighs my heavy eye | Q |
Beneath this cheerless stranger sky | Q |
Tho' fewer now might round me come | R |
It is my home my own old home | S |
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She is back again in her sunny home | S |
And thick and fast the beatings come | R |
Of that young heart as round she sees | T |
The same sweet flowers the same old trees | T |
But they the living flowers she loved | I |
Are they the same are they unmoved | J |
No time which withers leaf and stem | U |
Hath thrown his withering change o'er them | U |
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Where there was mirth is silence now | H |
Where there was joy a darkened brow | H |
The bounding step hath given place | B |
To the slow stealing mournful pace | B |
The proud bright eye is now less proud | V |
By time and thought and sickness bowed | V |
And the light singing voice no more | W |
Its joyful carols echoes o'er | D |
But whispers fearful some gay tone | X |
May wake the thought of pleasures gone | Y |
It is her home but all in vain | C |
Some lingering things unchanged remain | C |
The present wakes no smile the past | Z |
Hath tears to bid its memory last | Z |
She knew that some were gone but oh | A2 |
She knew not youth can never know | A2 |
How furrowed o'er with silent thought | B2 |
Are brows which grief and time have taught | B2 |
The murmuring of some shadowy word | F |
Which was a name which now unheard | F |
May wander thro' the clear cold sky | Q |
Or wake the echo for reply | Q |
The lingering pause in some bright spot | C2 |
To dream of those who now are not | C2 |
The gaze that vainly seeks to trace | B |
Lost feelings beaming on a face | B |
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Where time and sorrow guilt and care | E |
Have past and left their withering there | E |
These are her joys and she doth roam | S |
Around her dear but desert home | S |
Peopling the vacant seats till tears arise | D2 |
And blot the dim sweet vision from her eyes | D2 |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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