Sympathy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCC DBDBBEF DCDCCGH| It comes not in such wise as she had deemed | A |
| Else might she still have clung to her despair | B |
| More tender grateful than she could have dreamed | A |
| Fond hands passed pitying over brows and hair | B |
| And gentle words borne softly through the air | B |
| Calming her weary sense and wildered mind | C |
| By welcome dear communion with her kind | C |
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| Ah she forswore all words as empty lies | D |
| What speech could help encourage or repair | B |
| Yet when she meets these grave indulgent eyes | D |
| Fulfilled with pity simplest words are fair | B |
| Caressing meaningless that do not dare | B |
| To compensate or mend but merely soothe | E |
| With hopeful visions after bitter Truth | F |
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| One who through conquered trouble had grown wise | D |
| To read the grief unspoken unexpressed | C |
| The misery of the blank and heavy eyes | D |
| Or through youth's infinite compassion guessed | C |
| The heavy burden such a one brought rest | C |
| And bade her lay aside her doubts and fears | G |
| While the hard pain dissolved in blessed tears | H |
Emma Lazarus
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