The Light In The Window Pane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBEBEDED FBFBEDED GBGBEDED FBFB GDGD AHIJJI KKLFFL MMGJJG NHJOOJ PPQRRQA joy from my soul's departed | A |
A bliss from my heart is flown | B |
As weary weary hearted | A |
I wander alone alone | B |
The night wind sadly sigheth | C |
A withering wild refrain | D |
And my heart within me dieth | C |
For the light in the window pane | D |
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The stars overhead are shining | E |
As brightly as e'er they shone | B |
As heartless sad repining | E |
I wander alone alone | B |
A sudden flash comes streaming | E |
And flickers adown the lane | D |
But no more for me is gleaming | E |
The light in the window pane | D |
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The voices that pass are cheerful | F |
Men laugh as the night winds moan | B |
They cannot tell how fearful | F |
'Tis to wander alone alone | B |
For them with each night's returning | E |
Life singeth its tenderest strain | D |
Where the beacon of love is burning | E |
The light in the window pane | D |
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Oh sorrow beyond all sorrows | G |
To which human life is prone | B |
Without thee through all the morrows | G |
To wander alone alone | B |
Oh dark deserted dwelling | E |
Where Hope like a lamb was slain | D |
No voice from thy lone walls welling | E |
No light in thy window pane | D |
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But memory sainted angel | F |
Rolls back the sepulchral stone | B |
And sings like a sweet evangel | F |
No never never alone | B |
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True grief has its royal palace | G |
Each loss is a greater gain | D |
And Sorrow ne'er filled a chalice | G |
That Joy did not wait to drain | D |
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Man must be perfected | A |
By suffering he said | H |
And Death is but the stepping stone whereby | I |
We mount towards the gate | J |
Of heaven soon or late | J |
Death is the penalty of life we die | I |
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Because we live and life | K |
Is but a constant strife | K |
With the immortal Impulse that within | L |
Our bodies seeks control | F |
The time abiding Soul | F |
That wrestles with us yet we fain would win | L |
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And what the victory | M |
Would make us slaves and we | M |
Who in our blindness struggle for the prize | G |
Of this illusive state | J |
Called Life do but frustrate | J |
The higher law refusing to be wise | G |
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Rightly he knew indeed | N |
Earth's brightest paths but lead | H |
To the true wisdom of that perfect state | J |
Where Knowledge heaven born | O |
And Love's eternal morn | O |
Awaiteth those who would be truly great | J |
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With what abiding trust | P |
He rose from out the dust | P |
As Death's swift chariot passed him by the way | Q |
No visionary dream | R |
Was his no trifling theme | R |
The Soul's great Mystery before him lay | Q |
Charles Sangster
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