Exile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGHIJKLMNOAPQR STUVWXYPZA2DB2A2C2E| Blind in these stony streets dumb in their crowds | A |
| What can I do but dream of other days | B |
| Whose is the love I had and have not now | C |
| If it be Nature's let her answer me | D |
| It wanders by the blue monotonous sea | D |
| Where rushes grow or follows all the sweep | E |
| Of shallow summer brooks and umber pools | F |
| Or does it linger in those hidden paths | G |
| Where starlike blossoms blow among dead leaves | H |
| And dark groves murmur over darker shrubs | I |
| Birds with their fledgelings sleep and pale moths flit | J |
| With sunset's crimson flags perhaps it goes | K |
| And reappears with yellow Jupiter | L |
| Riding the West beside the crescent moon | M |
| Comes it with sunrise when the sunrise floats | N |
| From Night's bold towers vast in the East and gray | O |
| Till tower and wall flash into fiery clouds | A |
| Moving along the verge stately and slow | P |
| Ordered by the old music of the spheres | Q |
| Perchance it trembles in October's oaks | R |
| Or twining with the brilliant berried vine | S |
| Would hide the tender melancholy elm | T |
| Well might it rest within those solemn woods | U |
| Where sunlight never falls whose tops are green | V |
| With airs from heaven its balmy mists and rains | W |
| While underneath black mossy mammoth rocks | X |
| Keep silence with the waste of blighted boughs | Y |
| If winter riots with the wreathing snow | P |
| And ocean tossing all his threatening plumes | Z |
| And winds that tear the hollow murky sky | A2 |
| Can this my love which dwells no more with me | D |
| Find dwelling there like some storm driven bird | B2 |
| That knows not whence it flew nor where to fly | A2 |
| Between the world of sea and world of cloud | C2 |
| At last drops dead in the remorseless deep | E |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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