Twilight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEBEEFEFGHIH JKAKCLCLJMBMCNMOCEBE MPQP AHRHASQSTUEUELEL AVWV AXBXCYCYRZMZAA2B2A2A C2MD2BE2RE2 F2G2H2G2WI2J2I2RK2CK 2 BL2M2L2N2EAE O2P2Q2P2CR2Q2R2ES2B2 S2BT2RT2U2CMCBV2MV2 V2BEBV2MCMMW2V2W2V2M U2MV2X2Y2X2Z2V2AV2 MC2QC2EV2AV2 APCPMV2AV2MA3MA3 MLU2L AV2AV2V2V2BV2V2BABER 2ER2 EBEBAV2EV2IT is the twilight hour | A |
The daylight toil is done | B |
And the last rays are departing | C |
Of the cold and wintry sun | B |
It is the time when Friendship | D |
Holds converse fair and free | E |
It is the time when children | B |
Dance round the mother's knee | E |
But my soul is faint and heavy | E |
With a yearning sad and deep | F |
By the fireside lone and dreary | E |
I sit me down and weep | F |
Where are ye merry voices | G |
Whose clear and bird like tone | H |
Some other ear now blesses | I |
Less anxious than my own | H |
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Where are ye steps of lightness | J |
Which fell like blossom showers | K |
Where are ye sounds of laughter | A |
That cheer'd the pleasant hours | K |
Thro' the dim light slow declining | C |
Where my wistful glances fall | L |
I can see your pictures hanging | C |
Against the silent wall | L |
They gleam athwart the darkness | J |
With their sweet and changeless eyes | M |
But mute are ye my children | B |
No voice to mine replies | M |
Where are ye Are ye playing | C |
By the stranger's blazing hearth | N |
Forgetting in your gladness | M |
Your old home's former mirth | O |
Are ye dancing Are ye singing | C |
Are ye full of childish glee | E |
Or do your light hearts sadden | B |
With the memory of me | E |
Round whom oh gentle darlings | M |
Do your young arms fondly twine | P |
Does she press you to her bosom | Q |
Who hath taken you from mine | P |
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Oh boys the twilight hour | A |
Such a heavy time hath grown | H |
It recalls with such deep anguish | R |
All I used to call my own | H |
That the harshest word that ever | A |
Was spoken to me there | S |
Would be trivial would be welcome | Q |
In the depth of my despair | S |
Yet no Despair shall sink not | T |
While Life and Love remain | U |
Tho' the weary struggle haunt me | E |
And my prayer be made in vain | U |
Tho' at times my spirit fail me | E |
And the bitter tear drops fall | L |
Tho' my lot be hard and lonely | E |
Yet I hope I hope thro' all | L |
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When the mournful Jewish mother | A |
Laid her infant down to rest | V |
In doubt and fear and sorrow | W |
On the water's changeful breast | V |
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She knew not what the future | A |
Should bring the sorely tried | X |
That the High Priest of her nation | B |
Was the babe she sought to hide | X |
No in terror wildly flying | C |
She hurried on her path | Y |
Her swoln heart full to bursting | C |
Of woman's helpless wrath | Y |
Of that wrath so blent with anguish | R |
When we seek to shield from ill | Z |
Those feeble little creatures | M |
Who seem more helpless still | Z |
Ah no doubt in such an hour | A |
Her thoughts were harsh and wild | A2 |
The fiercer burned her spirit | B2 |
The more she loved her child | A2 |
No doubt a frenzied anger | A |
Was mingled with her fear | C2 |
When that prayer arose for justice | M |
Which God hath sworn to hear | D2 |
He heard it From His Heaven | B |
In its blue and boundless scope | E2 |
He saw that task of anguish | R |
And that fragile ark of hope | E2 |
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When she turn'd from that lost infant | F2 |
Her weeping eyes of love | G2 |
And the cold reeds bent beneath it | H2 |
His angels watch'd above | G2 |
She was spared the bitter sorrow | W |
Of her young child's early death | I2 |
Or the doubt where he was carried | J2 |
To draw his distant breath | I2 |
She was call'd his life to nourish | R |
From the well springs of her heart | K2 |
God's mercy re uniting | C |
Those whom man had forced apart | K2 |
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Nor was thy woe forgotten | B |
Whose worn and weary feet | L2 |
Were driven from thy homestead | M2 |
Through the red sand's parching heat | L2 |
Poor Hagar scorn'd and banish'd | N2 |
That another's son might be | E |
Sole claimant on that father | A |
Who felt no more for thee | E |
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Ah when thy dark eye wander'd | O2 |
Forlorn Egyptian slave | P2 |
Across that lurid desert | Q2 |
And saw no fountain wave | P2 |
When thy southern heart despairing | C |
In the passion of its grief | R2 |
Foresaw no ray of comfort | Q2 |
No shadow of relief | R2 |
But to cast the young child from thee | E |
That thou might'st not see him die | S2 |
How sank thy broken spirit | B2 |
But the Lord of Hosts was nigh | S2 |
He He too oft forgotten | B |
In sorrow as in joy | T2 |
Had will'd they should not perish | R |
The outcast and her boy | T2 |
The cool breeze swept across them | U2 |
From the angel's waving wing | C |
The fresh tide gush'd in brightness | M |
From the fountain's living spring | C |
And they stood those two forsaken | B |
By all earthly love or aid | V2 |
Upheld by God's firm promise | M |
Serene and undismay'd | V2 |
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And thou Nain's grieving widow | V2 |
Whose task of life seem'd done | B |
When the pale corse lay before thee | E |
Of thy dear and only son | B |
Though Death that fearful shadow | V2 |
Had veil'd his fair young eyes | M |
There was mercy for thy weeping | C |
There was pity for thy sighs | M |
The gentle voice of Jesus | M |
Who the touch of sorrow knew | W2 |
The grave's cold claim arrested | V2 |
E'er it hid him from thy view | W2 |
And those loving orbs re open'd | V2 |
And knew thy mournful face | M |
And the stiff limbs warm'd and bent them | U2 |
With all life's moving grace | M |
And his senses dawn'd and waken'd | V2 |
From the dark and frozen spell | X2 |
Which death had cast around him | Y2 |
Whom thou did'st love so well | X2 |
Till like one return'd from exile | Z2 |
To his former home of rest | V2 |
Who speaks not while his mother | A |
Falls sobbing on his breast | V2 |
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But with strange bewilder'd glances | M |
Looks round on objects near | C2 |
To recognise and welcome | Q |
All that memory held dear | C2 |
Thy young son stood before thee | E |
All living and restored | V2 |
And they who saw the wonder | A |
Knelt down to praise the Lord | V2 |
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The twilight hour is over | A |
In busier homes than mine | P |
I can see the shadows crossing | C |
Athwart the taper's shine | P |
I hear the roll of chariots | M |
And the tread of homeward feet | V2 |
And the lamps' long rows of splendor | A |
Gleam through the misty street | V2 |
No more I mark the objects | M |
In my cold and cheerless room | A3 |
The fire's unheeded embers | M |
Have sunk and all is gloom | A3 |
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But I know where hang your pictures | M |
Against the silent wall | L |
And my eyes turn sadly towards them | U2 |
Tho' I hope I hope thro' all | L |
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By the summons to that mother | A |
Whose fondness fate beguiled | V2 |
When the tyrant's gentle daughter | A |
Saved her river floating child | V2 |
By the sudden joy which bounded | V2 |
In the banish'd Hagar's heart | V2 |
When she saw the gushing fountain | B |
From the sandy desert start | V2 |
By the living smile which greeted | V2 |
The lonely one of Nain | B |
When her long last watch was over | A |
And her hope seem'd wild and vain | B |
By all the tender mercy | E |
God hath shown to human grief | R2 |
When fate or man's perverseness | E |
Denied and barr'd relief | R2 |
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By the helpless woe which taught me | E |
To look to him alone | B |
From the vain appeals for justice | E |
And wild efforts of my own | B |
By thy light thou unseen future | A |
And thy tears thou bitter past | V2 |
I will hope tho' all forsake me | E |
In His mercy to the last | V2 |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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