The Bride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHH IJKKLMNNOOPPQQRS SRTTIJUU HHBBVVWDXYCCZZA2A2B2 B2FFQQC2C2BB EESSD2D2

SHE is standing by her loved one's sideA
A young and a fair and a gentle brideA
But mournfulness hath crost her faceB
Like shadows in a sunny placeB
And wistfully her eye doth strainC
Across the blue and distant mainC
My home my home I would I wereD
Again in joyous gladness thereE
My home my home I would I heardF
The singing voice like some small birdF
Of him our mother's youngest childG
With light soft step and features mildG
I would I saw that dear one nowH
With the proud eye and noble browH
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Whose very errors were more lovedI
Than all our reason most approvedJ
And she my fairy sister sheK
Who was the soul of childish gleeK
Who loved me so oh let me hearL
Once more those tones familiar dearM
Which haunt my rest and I will smileN
Even as I used to do erewhileN
I know that some have fall'n asleepO
I know that some have learnt to weepO
But my heart never feels the sameP
As when those light steps round me cameP
And sadness weighs my heavy eyeQ
Beneath this cheerless stranger skyQ
Tho' fewer now might round me comeR
It is my home my own old homeS
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She is back again in her sunny homeS
And thick and fast the beatings comeR
Of that young heart as round she seesT
The same sweet flowers the same old treesT
But they the living flowers she lovedI
Are they the same are they unmovedJ
No time which withers leaf and stemU
Hath thrown his withering change o'er themU
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Where there was mirth is silence nowH
Where there was joy a darkened browH
The bounding step hath given placeB
To the slow stealing mournful paceB
The proud bright eye is now less proudV
By time and thought and sickness bowedV
And the light singing voice no moreW
Its joyful carols echoes o'erD
But whispers fearful some gay toneX
May wake the thought of pleasures goneY
It is her home but all in vainC
Some lingering things unchanged remainC
The present wakes no smile the pastZ
Hath tears to bid its memory lastZ
She knew that some were gone but ohA2
She knew not youth can never knowA2
How furrowed o'er with silent thoughtB2
Are brows which grief and time have taughtB2
The murmuring of some shadowy wordF
Which was a name which now unheardF
May wander thro' the clear cold skyQ
Or wake the echo for replyQ
The lingering pause in some bright spotC2
To dream of those who now are notC2
The gaze that vainly seeks to traceB
Lost feelings beaming on a faceB
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Where time and sorrow guilt and careE
Have past and left their withering thereE
These are her joys and she doth roamS
Around her dear but desert homeS
Peopling the vacant seats till tears ariseD2
And blot the dim sweet vision from her eyesD2

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton



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