How Beautiful The Earth Is Still Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEFFE CCCGHHIG JJKK LMNN CCCCCC OPOP CCCQ RRRQSSSP TTTP L U

How beautiful the Earth is stillA
To thee how full of HappinessB
How little fraught with real illA
Or shadowy phantoms of distressC
How Spring can bring thee glory yetD
And Summer win thee to forgetD
December's sullen timeE
Why dost thou hold the treasure fastF
Of youth's delight when youth is pastF
And thou art near thy primeE
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When those who were thy own compeersC
Equal in fortunes and in yearsC
Have seen their morning melt in tearsC
To dull unlovely dayG
Blest had they died unproved and youngH
Before their hearts were wildly wrungH
Poor slaves subdued by passions strongI
A weak and helpless preyG
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'Because I hoped while they enjoyedJ
And by fulfilment hope destroyedJ
As children hope with trustful breastK
I waited Bliss and cherished RestK
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'A thoughtful Spirit taught me soonL
That we must long till life be doneM
That every phase of earthly joyN
Will always fade and always cloyN
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'This I foresaw and would not chaseC
The fleeting treacheriesC
But with firm foot and tranquil faceC
Held backward from the tempting raceC
Gazed o'er the sands the waves effaceC
To the enduring seasC
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'There cast my anchor of DesireO
Deep in unknown EternityP
Nor ever let my Spirit tireO
With looking for What is to beP
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'It is Hope's spell that glorifiesC
Like youth to my maturer eyesC
All Nature's million mysteriesC
The fearful and the fairQ
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'Hope soothes me in the griefs I knowR
She lulls my pain for others' woeR
And makes me strong to undergoR
What I am born to bearQ
'Glad comforter will I not braveS
Unawed the darkness of the graveS
Nay smile to hear Death's billows raveS
My Guide sustained by theeP
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The more unjust seems present fateT
The more my Spirit springs elateT
Strong in thy strength to anticipateT
Rewarding DestinyP
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JuneL
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Charlotte Bront wrote 'Never was better stuff penned ' in the manuscript of this poemU

Emily Jane Bronta<<



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