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 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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