Faith And Despondency. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB CCDEFFGG GHIIJJGGKKL HHHMMMNOOPPGG MMGGNNNMHMHQQNN PPMRMRNNHH GMGMSMSMThe winter wind is loud and wild | A |
Come close to me my darling child | A |
Forsake thy books and mateless play | B |
And while the night is gathering gray | B |
We'll talk its pensive hours away | B |
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Ierne round our sheltered hall | C |
November's gusts unheeded call | C |
Not one faint breath can enter here | D |
Enough to wave my daughter's hair | E |
And I am glad to watch the blaze | F |
Glance from her eyes with mimic rays | F |
To feel her cheek so softly pressed | G |
In happy quiet on my breast | G |
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But yet even this tranquillity | G |
Brings bitter restless thoughts to me | H |
And in the red fire's cheerful glow | I |
I think of deep glens blocked with snow | I |
I dream of moor and misty hill | J |
Where evening closes dark and chill | J |
For lone among the mountains cold | G |
Lie those that I have loved of old | G |
And my heart aches in hopeless pain | K |
Exhausted with repinings vain | K |
That I shall greet them ne'er again | L |
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Father in early infancy | H |
When you were far beyond the sea | H |
Such thoughts were tyrants over me | H |
I often sat for hours together | M |
Through the long nights of angry weather | M |
Raised on my pillow to descry | M |
The dim moon struggling in the sky | N |
Or with strained ear to catch the shock | O |
Of rock with wave and wave with rock | O |
So would I fearful vigil keep | P |
And all for listening never sleep | P |
But this world's life has much to dread | G |
Not so my Father with the dead | G |
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Oh not for them should we despair | M |
The grave is drear but they are not there | M |
Their dust is mingled with the sod | G |
Their happy souls are gone to God | G |
You told me this and yet you sigh | N |
And murmur that your friends must die | N |
Ah my dear father tell me why | N |
For if your former words were true | M |
How useless would such sorrow be | H |
As wise to mourn the seed which grew | M |
Unnoticed on its parent tree | H |
Because it fell in fertile earth | Q |
And sprang up to a glorious birth | Q |
Struck deep its root and lifted high | N |
Its green boughs in the breezy sky | N |
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But I'll not fear I will not weep | P |
For those whose bodies rest in sleep | P |
I know there is a blessed shore | M |
Opening its ports for me and mine | R |
And gazing Time's wide waters o'er | M |
I weary for that land divine | R |
Where we were born where you and I | N |
Shall meet our dearest when we die | N |
From suffering and corruption free | H |
Restored into the Deity | H |
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Well hast thou spoken sweet trustful child | G |
And wiser than thy sire | M |
And worldly tempests raging wild | G |
Shall strengthen thy desire | M |
Thy fervent hope through storm and foam | S |
Through wind and ocean's roar | M |
To reach at last the eternal home | S |
The steadfast changeless shore | M |
Emily Bronte
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