At Even-tide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEFE GHGH IJIJ GKGK LMLM NONO LPLP| C N Died April | A |
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| What spirit is it that doth pervade | B |
| The silence of this empty room | C |
| And as I lift my eyes what shade | B |
| Glides off and vanishes in gloom | C |
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| I could believe this moment gone | D |
| A known form filled that vacant chair | E |
| That those kind eyes upon me shone | F |
| I never shall see anywhere | E |
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| The living are so far away | G |
| But thou thou seemest strangely near | H |
| Knowest all my silent heart would say | G |
| Its peace its pain its hope its fear | H |
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| And from thy calm supernal height | I |
| And wondrous wisdom newly won | J |
| Smilest on all our poor delight | I |
| And petty woe beneath the sun | J |
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| From all this coil thou hast slipped away | G |
| As softly as a cloud departs | K |
| Along the hillside purple gray | G |
| Into the heaven of patient hearts | K |
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| Nothing here suffered nothing missed | L |
| Will ever stir from its repose | M |
| The death smile on her lips unkissed | L |
| Who all things loves and all things knows | M |
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| And I who ignorant and weak | N |
| Of love so helpless quick to pain | O |
| With restless longing ever seek | N |
| The unattainable in vain | O |
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| Find it strange comfort thus to sit | L |
| While the loud world unheeded rolls | P |
| And clasp ere yet the fancy flit | L |
| A friend's hand from the land of souls | P |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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