The Domestic Affections Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDAACC AAEE FFCC GGHHIICCJJKLMM NNOOPP CCCCQRCCAASS TTJJTT UUAAGGCCRRCC TTCCCCCCVWXXCC JJAA YYZZTTFFLLOOA2A2B2B2 C2U D2D2AAE2E2CCF2F2PPEE AACC G2G2C2UZZYYEECCH2 I2I2J2J2 XKLLK2K2 CCL2L2T CCAACC XXCCSSCCM2C2CCN2WHENCE are those tranquil joys in mercy giv'n | A |
To light the wilderness with beams of Heav'n | A |
To sooth our cares and thro' the cloud diffuse | B |
Their tempered sun shine and celestial hues | C |
Those pure delights ordain'd on life to throw | D |
Gleams of the bliss ethereal natures know | D |
Say do they grace Ambition's regal throne | A |
When kneeling myriads call the world his own | A |
Or dwell with luxury in th' enchanted bow'rs | C |
Where taste and wealth exert creative pow'rs | C |
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Favor'd of Heav'n O Genius are they thine | A |
When round thy brow the wreaths of glory shine | A |
While rapture gazes on thy radiant way | E |
'Midst the bright realms of clear and mental day | E |
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No sacred joys 'tis yours to dwell enshrin'd | F |
Most fondly cherish'd in the purest mind | F |
To twine with flowers those lov'd endearing ties | C |
On earth so sweet so perfect in the skies | C |
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Nurs'd on the lap of solitude and shade | G |
The violet smiles embosom'd in the glade | G |
There sheds her spirit on the lonely gale | H |
Gem of seclusion treasure of the vale | H |
Thus far retir'd from life's tumultuous road | I |
Domestic bliss has fix'd her calm abode | I |
Where hallow'd innocence and sweet repose | C |
May strew her shadowy path with many a rose | C |
As when dread thunder shakes the troubled sky | J |
The cherub infancy can close its eye | J |
And sweetly smile unconscious of a tear | K |
While viewless angels wave their pinions near | L |
Thus while around the storms of discord roll | M |
Borne on resistless wing from pole to pole | M |
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While war's red lightnings desolate the ball | N |
And thrones and empires in destruction fall | N |
Then calm as evening on the silvery wave | O |
When the wind slumbers in the ocean cave | O |
She dwells unruffled in her bow'r of rest | P |
Her empire home her throne affection's breast | P |
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For her sweet nature wears her loveliest blooms | C |
And softer sun shine ev'ry scene illumes | C |
When spring awakes the spirit of the breeze | C |
Whose light wing undulates the sleeping seas | C |
When summer waving her creative wand | Q |
Bids verdure smile and glowing life expand | R |
Or autumn's pencil sheds with magic trace | C |
O'er fading loveliness a moon light grace | C |
Oh still for her thro' Nature's boundless reign | A |
No charm is lost no beauty blooms in vain | A |
While mental peace o'er ev'ry prospect bright | S |
Throws mellowing tints and harmonizing light | S |
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Lo borne on clouds in rushing might sublime | T |
Stern winter bursting from the polar clime | T |
Triumphant waves his signal torch on high | J |
The blood red meteor of the northern sky | J |
And high thro' darkness rears his giant form | T |
His throne the billow and his flag the storm | T |
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Yet then when bloom and sun shine are no more | U |
And the wild surges foam along the shore | U |
Domestic bliss thy heaven is still serene | A |
Thy star unclouded and thy myrtle green | A |
Thy fane of rest no raging storms invade | G |
Sweet peace is thine the seraph of the shade | G |
Clear thro' the day her light around thee glows | C |
And gilds the midnight of thy deep repose | C |
Hail sacred home where soft Affection's hand | R |
With flow'rs of Eden twines her magic band | R |
Where pure and bright the social ardors rise | C |
Concentring all their holiest energies | C |
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When wasting toil has dimm'd the vital flame | T |
And ev'ry power deserts the sinking frame | T |
Exhausted nature still from sleep implores | C |
The charm that lulls the manna that restores | C |
Thus when oppress'd with rude tumultuous cares | C |
To thee sweet home the fainting mind repairs | C |
Still to thy breast a wearied pilgrim flies | C |
Her ark of refuge from uncertain skies | C |
Bower of repose when torn from all we love | V |
Thro' toil we struggle or thro' distance rove | W |
To thee we turn still faithful from afar | X |
Thee our bright vista thee our magnet star | X |
And from the martial field the troubled sea | C |
Unfetter'd thought still roves to bliss and thee | C |
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When ocean sounds in awful slumber die | J |
No wave to murmur and no gale to sigh | J |
Wide o'er the world when peace and midnight reign | A |
And the moon trembles on the sleeping main | A |
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At that still hour the sailor wakes to keep | Y |
'Midst the dead calm the vigil of the deep | Y |
No gleaming shores his dim horizon hound | Z |
All heaven and sea and solitude around | Z |
Then from the lonely deck the silent helm | T |
From the wide grandeur of the shadowy realm | T |
Still homeward borne his fancy unconfin'd | F |
Leaving the worlds of ocean far behind | F |
Wings like a meteor flash her swift career | L |
To the lov'd scene so distant and so dear | L |
Lo the rude whirlwind rushes from its cave | O |
And danger frowns the monarch of the wave | O |
Lo rocks and storms the striving bark repel | A2 |
And death and shipwreck ride the foaming swell | A2 |
Child of the ocean is thy bier the surge | B2 |
Thy grave the billow and the wind thy dirge | B2 |
Yes thy long toils thy weary conflicts o'er | C2 |
No storm shall wake no perils rouse thee more | U |
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Yet in that solemn hour that awful strife | D2 |
The struggling agony for death or life | D2 |
E'en then thy mind embitt'ring ev'ry pain | A |
Retrac'd the image so belov'd in vain | A |
Still to sweet home thy last regrets were true | E2 |
Life's parting sigh the murmur of adieu | E2 |
Can war's dread scenes the hallow'd ties efface | C |
Each tender thought each fond remembrance chase | C |
Can fields of carnage days of toil destroy | F2 |
The lov'd impressions of domestic joy | F2 |
Ye day light dreams that cheer the soldier's breast | P |
In hostile climes with spells benign and blest | P |
Sooth his brave heart and shed your glowing ray | E |
O'er the long march thro' desolation's way | E |
Oh still ye bear him from th' ensanguin'd plain | A |
Armour's bright flash and victory's choral strain | A |
To that lov'd home where pure affection glows | C |
That shrine of bliss asylum of repose | C |
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When all is hush'd the rage of combat past | G2 |
And no dread war note swells the moaning blast | G2 |
When the warm throb of many a heart is o'er | C2 |
And many an eye is clos'd to wake no more | U |
Lull'd by the night wind pillow'd on the ground | Z |
The dewy death bed of his comrades round | Z |
While o'er the slain the tears of midnight weep | Y |
Faint with fatigue he sinks in slumbers deep | Y |
E'en then soft visions hov'ring round portray | E |
The cherish'd forms that o'er his bosom sway | E |
He sees fond transport light each beaming face | C |
Meets the warm tear drop and the long embrace | C |
While the sweet welcome vibrates thro' his heart | H2 |
'Hail weary soldier never more to part ' | - |
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And lo at last releas'd from ev'ry toil | I2 |
He comes the wanderer views his native soil | I2 |
Then the bright raptures words can never speak | J2 |
Flash in his eye and mantle o'er his cheek | J2 |
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Then love and friendship whose unceasing pray'r | X |
Implor'd for him each guardian spirit's care | K |
Who for his fate thro' sorrow's lingering year | L |
Had prov'd each thrilling pulse of hope and fear | L |
In that blest moment all the past forget | K2 |
Hours of suspense and vigils of regret | K2 |
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And oh for him the child of rude alarms | C |
Rear'd by stern danger in the school of arms | C |
How sweet to change the war song's pealing note | L2 |
For woodland sounds in summer air that float | L2 |
Thro' vales of peace o'er mountain wilds to roam | T |
And breathe his native gales that whisper 'Home ' | - |
Hail sweet endearments of domestic ties | C |
Charms of existence angel sympathies | C |
Tho' pleasure smile a soft Circassian queen | A |
And guide her votaries thro' a fairy scene | A |
Where sylphid forms beguile their vernal hours | C |
With mirth and music in Arcadian bow'rs | C |
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Tho' gazing nations hail the fiery car | X |
That bears the son of conquest from afar | X |
While Fame's loud P an bids his heart rejoice | C |
And ev'ry life pulse vibrates to her voice | C |
Yet from your source alone in mazes bright | S |
Flows the full current of serene delight | S |
On Freedom's wing that ev'ry wild explores | C |
Thro' realms of space th' aspiring eagle soars | C |
Darts o'er the clouds exulting to admire | M2 |
Meridian glory on her throne of fire | C2 |
Bird of the sun his keen unwearied gaze | C |
Hails the full noon and triumphs in the blaze | C |
But soon descending from his height sub | N2 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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