Written After A Visit To The Institution For The Deaf And Dumb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCD EEEF GGGH IIIJ DDDJ| I thought those youthful hearts were bleak and bare | A |
| That not a germ had ever flourished there | A |
| Unless perchance the night shade of despair | A |
| Which blooms amid the sunless wilderness | B |
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| But I was told that flowers of fairest kind | C |
| Graced what I deemed a desert of the mind | C |
| That for these hapless beings man had twined | C |
| A fadeless wreath to make their sorrows less | D |
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| And then I feared like sunbeams of the morn | E |
| Which spoil the frost work they awhile adorn | E |
| That rays of light might render more forlorn | E |
| The expanding bosoms they were meant to cheer | F |
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| I feared those glittering beams would vainly show | G |
| That the best charms of life they ne'er could know | G |
| The feast of reason and the soul's calm flow | G |
| The witchery of sound the bliss to hear | H |
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| But when I saw those eyes mirthful and bright | I |
| And beaming soft with intellectual light | I |
| My groundless fears that moment winged their flight | I |
| I felt that joy would on their path attend | J |
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| May Heaven this favored Institution bless | D |
| Man's high endeavor crown with glad success | D |
| And on each patron's noble brow impress | D |
| The glorious title of The dumb man's friend | J |
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
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