Woodburn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFF GGHHIIJJKKLLMM NNOOPQKKRNAA SSTUVVWW| Oh the brow that has never been shaded by care | A |
| The rosewreath of pleasure may smilingly wear | A |
| And the heart that is wholly a stranger to gloom | B |
| 'Mid the din of existence may fearlessly bloom | B |
| But the one that is blighted by sadness and pain | C |
| And blighted too rudely to blossom again | D |
| When its hold on a reed like support is resigned | E |
| Nor peace nor composure nor solace can find | E |
| Nor strength to submit to the chastening rod | F |
| Save only in stillness alone with its God | F |
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| And oh if a blissful communion with Heaven | G |
| To earth wearied spirits has ever been given | G |
| If the loved and the distant the lost and the dead | H |
| Who smiled on our pathway a moment and fled | H |
| Who darkened our sunshine and saddened our mirth | I |
| To prove that the soul has no home upon earth | I |
| Are sent in the night time of gloom and distress | J |
| As heralds of mercy to comfort and bless | J |
| To place while the tempest is fearfully loud | K |
| The bright bow of peace on the dark thundercloud | K |
| To whisper of purer and holier ties | L |
| Of a land where the blossom of joy never dies | L |
| Such tidings to welcome oh where shall we flee | M |
| If not dearest Woodburn to silence and thee | M |
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| For ah did the angel of peace over roam | N |
| On an errand of love from her own hallowed home | N |
| To gladden a sin blighted world for awhile | O |
| Make the desert rejoice and the wilderness smile | O |
| She has certainly paused in her holy career | P |
| And closed up her pinions delightfully here | Q |
| Dear to me are thy shades when no sound may be heard | K |
| Save the soul soothing strains of thy harmonist bird | K |
| For they seem on the soft wing of quiet to come | R |
| Like celestial melodies luring us home | N |
| Faint breathings from Heaven to bid us prepare | A |
| For peals of ethereal minstrelsy there | A |
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| But oh when day rests on the portals of eve | S |
| As though loath the bright scene of enchantment to leave | S |
| While its drapery of gold hurried carelessly on | T |
| Fades away tint by tint till at last all are gone | U |
| I feel 'tis an emblem of life's little hour | V |
| Thus perish the hues of hope's loveliest flower | V |
| And I sigh for repose on that heavenly shore | W |
| Where the day is eternal and change is no more | W |
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
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