The Teacher's Monologue. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDBDBEBEBFDGGHDHD BBBBIDIDBJBJAKAKBLBL MBNBDLDLOP DQDQLGRG DNDMQBQB CDCDSDSD TLTLBHBH UBUBVBWB| The room is quiet thoughts alone | A |
| People its mute tranquillity | B |
| The yoke put off the long task done | C |
| I am as it is bliss to be | D |
| Still and untroubled Now I see | D |
| For the first time how soft the day | B |
| O'er waveless water stirless tree | D |
| Silent and sunny wings its way | B |
| Now as I watch that distant hill | E |
| So faint so blue so far removed | B |
| Sweet dreams of home my heart may fill | E |
| That home where I am known and loved | B |
| It lies beyond yon azure brow | F |
| Parts me from all Earth holds for me | D |
| And morn and eve my yearnings flow | G |
| Thitherward tending changelessly | G |
| My happiest hours aye all the time | H |
| I love to keep in memory | D |
| Lapsed among moors ere life's first prime | H |
| Decayed to dark anxiety | D |
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| Sometimes I think a narrow heart | B |
| Makes me thus mourn those far away | B |
| And keeps my love so far apart | B |
| From friends and friendships of to day | B |
| Sometimes I think 'tis but a dream | I |
| I treasure up so jealously | D |
| All the sweet thoughts I live on seem | I |
| To vanish into vacancy | D |
| And then this strange coarse world around | B |
| Seems all that's palpable and true | J |
| And every sight and every sound | B |
| Combines my spirit to subdue | J |
| To aching grief so void and lone | A |
| Is Life and Earth so worse than vain | K |
| The hopes that in my own heart sown | A |
| And cherished by such sun and rain | K |
| As Joy and transient Sorrow shed | B |
| Have ripened to a harvest there | L |
| Alas methinks I hear it said | B |
| Thy golden sheaves are empty air | L |
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| All fades away my very home | M |
| I think will soon be desolate | B |
| I hear at times a warning come | N |
| Of bitter partings at its gate | B |
| And if I should return and see | D |
| The hearth fire quenched the vacant chair | L |
| And hear it whispered mournfully | D |
| That farewells have been spoken there | L |
| What shall I do and whither turn | O |
| Where look for peace When cease to mourn | P |
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| 'Tis not the air I wished to play | D |
| The strain I wished to sing | Q |
| My wilful spirit slipped away | D |
| And struck another string | Q |
| I neither wanted smile nor tear | L |
| Bright joy nor bitter woe | G |
| But just a song that sweet and clear | R |
| Though haply sad might flow | G |
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| A quiet song to solace me | D |
| When sleep refused to come | N |
| A strain to chase despondency | D |
| When sorrowful for home | M |
| In vain I try I cannot sing | Q |
| All feels so cold and dead | B |
| No wild distress no gushing spring | Q |
| Of tears in anguish shed | B |
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| But all the impatient gloom of one | C |
| Who waits a distant day | D |
| When some great task of suffering done | C |
| Repose shall toil repay | D |
| For youth departs and pleasure flies | S |
| And life consumes away | D |
| And youth's rejoicing ardour dies | S |
| Beneath this drear delay | D |
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| And Patience weary with her yoke | T |
| Is yielding to despair | L |
| And Health's elastic spring is broke | T |
| Beneath the strain of care | L |
| Life will be gone ere I have lived | B |
| Where now is Life's first prime | H |
| I've worked and studied longed and grieved | B |
| Through all that rosy time | H |
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| To toil to think to long to grieve | U |
| Is such my future fate | B |
| The morn was dreary must the eve | U |
| Be also desolate | B |
| Well such a life at least makes Death | V |
| A welcome wished for friend | B |
| Then aid me Reason Patience Faith | W |
| To suffer to the end | B |
Charlotte Bronte
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