The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DEDE ABAB ABAB FGFG| The happiest day the happiest hour | A |
| My sear'd and blighted heart hath known | B |
| The highest hope of pride and power | A |
| I feel hath flown | B |
| - | |
| Of power said I yes such I ween | B |
| But they have vanish'd long alas | C |
| The visions of my youth have been | B |
| But let them pass | C |
| - | |
| And pride what have I now with thee | D |
| Another brow may even inherit | E |
| The venom thou hast pour'd on me | D |
| Be still my spirit | E |
| - | |
| The happiest day the happiest hour | A |
| Mine eyes shall see have ever seen | B |
| The brightest glance of pride and power | A |
| I feel have been | B |
| - | |
| But were that hope of pride and power | A |
| Now offer'd with the pain | B |
| Even then I felt that brightest hour | A |
| I would not live again | B |
| - | |
| For on its wing was dark alloy | F |
| And as it flutter'd fell | G |
| An essence powerful to destroy | F |
| A soul that knew it well | G |
Edgar Allan Poe
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