The Light In The Window Pane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBEBEDED FBFBEDED GBGBEDED FBFB GDGD AHIJJI KKLFFL MMGJJG NHJOOJ PPQRRQ

A joy from my soul's departedA
A bliss from my heart is flownB
As weary weary heartedA
I wander alone aloneB
The night wind sadly sighethC
A withering wild refrainD
And my heart within me diethC
For the light in the window paneD
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The stars overhead are shiningE
As brightly as e'er they shoneB
As heartless sad repiningE
I wander alone aloneB
A sudden flash comes streamingE
And flickers adown the laneD
But no more for me is gleamingE
The light in the window paneD
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The voices that pass are cheerfulF
Men laugh as the night winds moanB
They cannot tell how fearfulF
'Tis to wander alone aloneB
For them with each night's returningE
Life singeth its tenderest strainD
Where the beacon of love is burningE
The light in the window paneD
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Oh sorrow beyond all sorrowsG
To which human life is proneB
Without thee through all the morrowsG
To wander alone aloneB
Oh dark deserted dwellingE
Where Hope like a lamb was slainD
No voice from thy lone walls wellingE
No light in thy window paneD
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But memory sainted angelF
Rolls back the sepulchral stoneB
And sings like a sweet evangelF
No never never aloneB
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True grief has its royal palaceG
Each loss is a greater gainD
And Sorrow ne'er filled a chaliceG
That Joy did not wait to drainD
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Man must be perfectedA
By suffering he saidH
And Death is but the stepping stone wherebyI
We mount towards the gateJ
Of heaven soon or lateJ
Death is the penalty of life we dieI
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Because we live and lifeK
Is but a constant strifeK
With the immortal Impulse that withinL
Our bodies seeks controlF
The time abiding SoulF
That wrestles with us yet we fain would winL
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And what the victoryM
Would make us slaves and weM
Who in our blindness struggle for the prizeG
Of this illusive stateJ
Called Life do but frustrateJ
The higher law refusing to be wiseG
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Rightly he knew indeedN
Earth's brightest paths but leadH
To the true wisdom of that perfect stateJ
Where Knowledge heaven bornO
And Love's eternal mornO
Awaiteth those who would be truly greatJ
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With what abiding trustP
He rose from out the dustP
As Death's swift chariot passed him by the wayQ
No visionary dreamR
Was his no trifling themeR
The Soul's great Mystery before him layQ

Charles Sangster



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