The Happiest Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC A CDCD A EFEF G BCBC G BCBC G HIHI| I | A |
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| The happiest day the happiest hour | B |
| My seared and blighted heart hath known | C |
| The highest hope of pride and power | B |
| I feel hath flown | C |
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| II | A |
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| Of power said I Yes such I ween | C |
| But they have vanished long alas | D |
| The visions of my youth have been | C |
| But let them pass | D |
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| III | A |
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| And pride what have I now with thee | E |
| Another brow may ev'n inherit | F |
| The venom thou hast poured on me | E |
| Be still my spirit | F |
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| IV | G |
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| The happiest day the happiest hour | B |
| Mine eyes shall see have ever seen | C |
| The brightest glance of pride and power | B |
| I feel have been | C |
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| V | G |
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| But were that hope of pride and power | B |
| Now offered with the pain | C |
| Ev'n then I felt that brightest hour | B |
| I would not live again | C |
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| VI | G |
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| For on its wing was dark alloy | H |
| And as it fluttered fell | I |
| An essence powerful to destroy | H |
| A soul that knew it well | I |
Edgar Allan Poe
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