Faith And Despondency Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB CCDEFFGG GHIIJJGGKK HHHLLLM NNOOGG LLGGMMM LHLHPPMM OOLQLQMMH GLGLRLR| The 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 grey | 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 ' | - |
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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 | L |
| Through the long nights of angry weather | L |
| Raised on my pillow to descry | L |
| The dim moon struggling in the sky | M |
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| Or with strained ear to catch the shock | N |
| Of rock with wave and wave with rock | N |
| So would I fearful vigil keep | O |
| And all for listening never sleep | O |
| 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 | L |
| The grave is drear but they are not there | L |
| Their dust is mingled with the sod | G |
| Their happy souls are gone to God | G |
| You told me this and yet you sigh | M |
| And murmur that your friends must die | M |
| Ah my dear father tell me why | M |
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| For if your former words were true | L |
| How useless would such sorrow be | H |
| As wise to mourn the seed which grew | L |
| Unnoticed on its parent tree | H |
| Because it fell in fertile earth | P |
| And sprang up to a glorious birth | P |
| Struck deep its root and lifted high | M |
| Its green boughs in the breezy sky | M |
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| 'But I'll not fear I will not weep | O |
| For those whose bodies rest in sleep | O |
| I know there is a blessed shore | L |
| Opening its ports for me and mine | Q |
| And gazing Time's wide waters o'er | L |
| I weary for that land divine | Q |
| Where we were born where you and I | M |
| Shall meet our Dearest when we die | M |
| From suffering and corruption free | H |
| Restored into the Deity ' | - |
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| 'Well hast thou spoken sweet trustful child | G |
| And wiser than thy sire | L |
| And worldly tempests raging wild | G |
| Shall strengthen thy desire | L |
| Thy fervent hope through storm and foam | R |
| Through wind and ocean's roar | L |
| To reach at last the eternal home | R |
| The steadfast changeless shore ' | - |
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