Song In Time Of Waiting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCDD EFGFHFHII JKJKLKLMM NCNCOCOBB PQRQSQSTU VSVSWSWSS| Because the days are long for you and me | A |
| I make this song to lighten their slow time | B |
| So that the weary waiting fruitful be | A |
| Or blossomed only by my limping rhyme | B |
| The days are very long | C |
| And may not shortened be by any chime | B |
| Of measured words or any fleeting song | C |
| Yet let us gather blossoms while we wait | D |
| And sing brave tunes against the face of fate | D |
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| Day after day goes by the exquisite | E |
| Procession of the variable year | F |
| Summer a sheaf with flowers bound up in it | G |
| And autumn tender till the frosts appear | F |
| And dry the humid skies | H |
| And winter following on aloof austere | F |
| Clad in the garments of a frore sunrise | H |
| And spring again May not too many a spring | I |
| Make both our voices tremble as we sing | I |
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| The days are empty empty and the nights | J |
| Are cold and void there is no single gleam | K |
| Across the space unpeopled of delights | J |
| Save only now and then some thin blood dream | K |
| Some stray of summer weather | L |
| The tedious hours like slow foot laggarts seem | K |
| When you and I my love are not together | L |
| And when I hold you in my arms at last | M |
| The minutes go like April cloudlets past | M |
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| And yet no hidden charm no desperate spell | N |
| Can make these minutes longer those less long | C |
| No force there is that yearning can impel | N |
| Against the callous years which do us wrong | C |
| No words no whispered rune | O |
| No witchery and no Thessalian song | C |
| Can make that far off misty day more soon | O |
| The bravest tune the most courageous rhyme | B |
| Fall broken from the bastions of time | B |
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| A long and dusty road it is to tread | P |
| Few are the wayside flowers and far apart | Q |
| And are no sooner plucked than withered | R |
| When yearning heart is torn from yearning heart | Q |
| A weary road it is | S |
| And yet far off I see clear waters start | Q |
| And clean sweet grass and tangled traceries | S |
| Of whispering leaves that laugh to see us come | T |
| And there one day one day shall be our home | U |
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| The day will come O dearest do not doubt | V |
| It is not born as yet but I shall see | S |
| Some day the fearless sunrise flashing out | V |
| And know the night will give you up to me | S |
| O heart my heart be glad | W |
| Because the time will come at last when we | S |
| Shall leave all grief and unlearn all things sad | W |
| And know the joy than which none sweeter is | S |
| And I shall sing a happier song than this | S |
Edward Shanks
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