The Tryst Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDDDAEFE A DFGFDHDHAIAI | A |
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I went alone to the old familiar place | B |
Where we often met | C |
When the twilight soften'd thy bright and radiant face | B |
And the sun had set | C |
All things around seem'd whispering of the past | D |
With thine image blent | D |
Even the changeful spray which the torrent cast | D |
As it downward went | D |
I stood and gazed with a sad and heavy eye | A |
On the waterfall | E |
And with a shouting voice of agony | F |
On thy name did call | E |
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II | A |
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With a yearning hope from my wrung and aching heart | D |
I call'd on thee | F |
And the lonely echoes from the rocks above | G |
They answer'd me | F |
Glad and familiar as a household word | D |
Was that cherish'd name | H |
But in that grieving hour faintly heard | D |
'T was not the same | H |
Solemn and sad with a distant knelling cry | A |
On my heart it fell | I |
'T was as if the word 'Welcome' had been answer'd by | A |
The word 'FAREWELL ' | - |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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