The Heart Of Sadness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JGJG| IT is not Dear because I am alone | A |
| For I am lonelier when the rest are near | B |
| But that my place against your heart has grown | A |
| Too dear to dream of when you are not here | C |
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| I weep because my thoughts no more may roam | D |
| To meet half way your longing thoughts of me | E |
| To turn with these and spread glad wings for home | D |
| For the dear haven where I fain would be | E |
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| When first we loved I loved to steal away | F |
| To show to solitude what love could do | G |
| To fill the waste space of the night and day | F |
| With thousand wing d dreams that flew to you | G |
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| But now through many tears I am grown wise | H |
| To know how mighty and how dear love is | I |
| I dare not turn to him my longing eyes | H |
| Nor even in dreams lean out my face to his | I |
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| Because if once I let my caged heart go | J |
| Through dreams to seek you I should follow too | G |
| Through wrong and right through wisdom and through woe | J |
| Through heaven and hell until I won to you | G |
Edith Nesbit
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