Westward Ho! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JGJG KLKL MNMO IPIP| We should not sit us down and sigh | A |
| My girl whose brow a fane appears | B |
| Whose steadfast eyes look royally | C |
| Backwards and forwards o'er the years | B |
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| The long long years of conquered time | D |
| The possible years unwon that slope | E |
| Before us in the pale sublime | D |
| Of lives that have more faith than hope | E |
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| We dare not sit us down and dream | F |
| Fond dreams as idle children do | G |
| My forehead owns too many a seam | F |
| And tears have worn their channels through | G |
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| Your poor thin cheeks which now I take | H |
| Twixt my two hands caressing Dear | I |
| A little sunshine for my sake | H |
| Although we're far on in the year | I |
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| Though all our violets sweet are dead | J |
| The primrose lost from fields we knew | G |
| Who knows that harvests may be spread | J |
| For reapers brave like me and you | G |
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| Who knows what bright October suns | K |
| May light up distant valleys mild | L |
| Where as our pathway downward runs | K |
| We see Joy meet us like a child | L |
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| Who sudden by the roadside stands | M |
| To kiss the travellers' weary brows | N |
| And lead them through the twilight lands | M |
| Safely unto their Father's house | O |
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| So we'll not dream nor look back dear | I |
| But march right on content and bold | P |
| To where our life sets heavenly clear | I |
| Westward behind the hills of gold | P |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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