The Child Of The Islands - Conclusion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDCDDA EFEFFGFGGA HIHIIJIJJK JLJLLJLJJK JMJMMNMNNK KOKOPQOQQK JRJSSKSKK K JTJTTUTUUT TTTTTITIIT VGVGGJGJJT JUJWWXWXXT JTJTTUTUYT ETETTJTJJK JJJJJWJUWK ZLZLLJLJJK A2TA2TTTTTTK TTTTTITIIK JJJJJJJJJT JJJWI | A |
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MY lay is ended closed the circling year | B |
From Spring's first dawn to Winter's darkling night | C |
The moan of sorrow and the sigh of fear | B |
The ringing chords of triumph and delight | C |
Have died away oh child of beauty bright | C |
And all unconscious of my song art thou | D |
With large blue eyes of Majesty and might | C |
And red full lips and fair capacious brow | D |
No Leader of the World but Life's Beginner now | D |
II | A |
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Oh tender human blossom thou art fair | E |
With such a beauty as the eye perceives | F |
Watching a bud of promise rich and rare | E |
In the home shadow of surrounding leaves | F |
THOUGHT the great Dream bringer who joys and grieves | F |
Over the visions of her own creating | G |
Resting by Thee a sigh of pleasure heaves | F |
The fever of her rapid flight abating | G |
Amid the golden hopes around thy cradle waiting | G |
III | A |
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Thou thou at least art happy For thy sake | H |
Heaven speaks reversal of the doom of pain | I |
Set on our Nature when the Demon Snake | H |
Hissed the first lie a woman's ear to gain | I |
And Eden was lamented for in vain | I |
THOU art not meant like other men to thirst | J |
For benefits no effort can attain | I |
To struggle on by Hope's deceiving nurst | J |
And linger still the last where thou wouldst fain be first | J |
IV | K |
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The royal canopy above thy head | J |
Shall charm away the griefs that others know | L |
Oh mocking dream Thy feet Life's path must tread | J |
The Just God made not Happiness to grow | L |
Out of condition fair the field flowers blow | L |
Fair as the richer flowers of garden ground | J |
And far more equally are joy and woe | L |
Divided than they dream who gazing round | J |
See but that narrow plot their own life's selfish bound | J |
V | K |
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True in thy Childhood's Spring thou shalt not taste | J |
The bitter toil of factory or mine | M |
Nor the Strong Summer of thy manhood waste | J |
In labour vain and want that bids thee pine | M |
The mellow Autumn of thy calm decline | M |
The sheltered Winter of thy happy Age | N |
Shall see home faces still around thee shine | M |
No Workhouse threatening where the heart's sick rage | N |
Mopes like a prisoned bird within a cheerless cage | N |
VI | K |
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True that instead of all this weary grief | K |
This cutting off what joy our life affords | O |
This endless pining for denied relief | K |
All Luxury shall hail thee music's chords | O |
Shall woo thee and sweet utterance of words | P |
In Minstrel singing Painting shall beguile | Q |
Thine eye with mimic battles dark with swords | O |
Green sylvan landscapes beauty's imaged smile | Q |
And books thy leisure hours from worldly cares shall wile | Q |
VII | K |
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There ends the sum of thy Life's holiday | J |
WANT shall not enter near thee PLEASURE shall | R |
But Pomp hath wailed when Poverty looked gay | J |
And SORROW claims an equal tax from all | S |
Tears have been known from Royal eyes to fall | S |
When harvest trudging clowns went singing by | K |
Sobs have woke echoes in the gilded hall | S |
And by that pledge of thine Equality | K |
Men hail thee BROTHER still though thou art set so high | K |
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VIII | K |
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DEATH too who heeds not poorer men's regret | J |
Neither is subject to the will of Kings | T |
All Thrones all Empires of the Earth are set | J |
Under the vaulted shadow of his wings | T |
He blights our Summers chills our fairest springs | T |
Nips the fresh bloom of some uncertain flower | U |
Yea where the fragile tendril closest clings | T |
There doth his gaunt hand pluck with sudden power | U |
Leaving green burial mounds where stood Affection's bower | U |
IX | T |
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Where is young Orleans that fair Prince of France | T |
Who 'scaped a thousand threatening destinies | T |
Only to perish by a vulgar chance | T |
Lost is the light of the most lovely eyes | T |
That ever imaged back the summer skies | T |
Widowed the hapless Wife who seeks to train | I |
Childhood's frail thread of broken memories | T |
So that her Orphan may at least retain | I |
The haunting shadow of a Father's face in vain | I |
X | T |
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Oh Summer flowers which happy children cull | V |
How were ye stained that year by bitter weeping | G |
When he the stately and the beautiful | V |
Wrapped in his dismal shroud lay coldly sleeping | G |
The warm breeze through the rustling woods went creeping | G |
The birds with gladdening notes sang overhead | J |
The peasant groups went laughing to their reaping | G |
But in the gorgeous Palace rose instead | J |
Sobs and lamenting Hymns and Masses for the Dead | J |
XI | T |
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Where too is She the loved and lately wived | J |
The fair haired Daughter of an Emperor | U |
Born in the time of roses and who lived | J |
A rose's life one Spring one Summer more | W |
Dating from Girlhood's blushing days of yore | W |
Fading in Autumn lost in Winter's gloom | X |
And with the opening year beheld no more | W |
She and her babe lie buried in the tomb | X |
The green bud on the stem both withered in the bloom | X |
XII | T |
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Then RUSSIA wept Then bowing to the dust | J |
That brow whereon proud Majesty and Grace | T |
Are chiselled as in some ideal bust | J |
All vain appeared his power his realm's wide space | T |
And the high blood of his imperial race | T |
He sank a grieving man a helpless Sire | U |
Who could not call back to a pale sweet face | T |
By might of rule or Love's intense desire | U |
The light that quivering sank in darkness to expire | Y |
XII | T |
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Where is the angel sent as Belgium's heir | E |
Renewing hopes so linked with bitter fears | T |
When our own Charlotte perished young and fair | E |
The former love of long departed years | T |
That little One is gone from earth's cold tears | T |
To smile in Heaven's clear sunshine with the Blest | J |
And in his stead another bud appears | T |
But when his gentle head was laid to rest | J |
Came there not boding dreams to sting his Father's breast | J |
XIV | K |
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Of Claremont of that dark December night | J |
When pale with weary vigils vainly kept | J |
Crushed by the destiny that looked so bright | J |
Dark browed and beautiful he stood and wept | J |
By one who heard him not but dumbly slept | J |
By one who loved him so that evermore | W |
Her young heart with a fervent welcome leapt | J |
To greet his presence But those pangs are o'er | U |
And Heaven in mercy keeps more smiling days in store | W |
XV | K |
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God hath built up a bridge 'twixt man and man | Z |
Which mortal strength can never overthrow | L |
Over the world it stretches its dark span | Z |
The keystone of that mighty arch is WOE | L |
Joy's rainbow glories visit earth and go | L |
Melting away to Heaven's far distant land | J |
But Grief's foundations have been fixed below | L |
PLEASURE divides us the Divine command | J |
Hath made of SORROW'S links a firm connecting band | J |
XVI | K |
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In the clear morning when I rose from sleep | A2 |
And left my threshold for the fresh'ning breeze | T |
There I beheld a grieving woman weep | A2 |
The shadow of a child was on her knees | T |
The worn heir of her many miseries | T |
'Save him ' was written in her suppliant glance | T |
But I was weaker than its fell disease | T |
And ere towards noon the Dial could advance | T |
Death indeed saved her babe from Life's most desperate chance | T |
XVII | K |
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The sunset of that day in splendid halls | T |
Mourning a little child of Ducal race | T |
How fair the picture Memory recalls | T |
I saw the sweetest and the palest face | T |
That ever wore the stamp of Beauty's grace | T |
Bowed like a white rose beat by storms and rain | I |
And on her countenance my eyes could trace | T |
And on her soft cheek marked with tearful stain | I |
That she had prayed through many a midnight watch in vain | I |
XVIII | K |
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In both those different homes the babe was dead | J |
Life's early morning closed in sudden night | J |
In both the bitter tears were freely shed | J |
Lips pressed on lids for ever closed from light | J |
And prayers sobbed forth to God the Infinite | J |
From both the little one was borne away | J |
And buried in the earth with solemn rite | J |
One in a mound where no stone marked the clay | J |
One in a vaulted tomb with funeral array | J |
XIX | T |
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It was the last distinction of their lot | J |
The same dull earth received their mortal mould | J |
The same high consecration marked the spot | J |
A Christian burying place for | W |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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