The Penitent's Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHGH IDDJ KLLM CNNC OPOP QHLH ADAD RMKR BSSB| My father's house once more | A |
| In its own moonlight beauty yet around | B |
| Something amidst the dewy calm profound | B |
| Broods never marked before | A |
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| Is it the brooding night | C |
| Is it the shivery creeping on the air | D |
| That makes the home so tranquil and so fair | D |
| O'erwhelming to my sight | C |
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| All solemnised it seems | E |
| And still'd and darkness in each time worn hue | F |
| Since the rich clustering roses met my view | F |
| As now by starry gleams | E |
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| And this high elm where last | G |
| I stood and linger'd where my sisters made | H |
| Our mother's bower I deem'd not that it cast | G |
| So far and dark a shade | H |
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| How spirit like a tone | I |
| Sighs through yon tree my father's place was there | D |
| At evening hours while soft winds waved his hair | D |
| Now those gray locks are gone | J |
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| My soul grows faint with fear | K |
| E'en as if angel steps had mark'd the sod | L |
| I tremble where I move the voice of God | L |
| Is in the foliage here | M |
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| Is it indeed the night | C |
| That makes my home so awful faithless hearted | N |
| 'Tis that from thine own bosom hath departed | N |
| The in born gladdening light | C |
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| No outward thing is changed | O |
| Only the joy of purity is fled | P |
| And long from nature's melodious estranged | O |
| Thou hear'st their tones with dread | P |
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| Therefore the calm abode | Q |
| By the dark spirit is o'erhung with shade | H |
| And therefore in the leaves the voice of God | L |
| Makes thy sick heart afraid | H |
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| The night flowers round that door | A |
| Still breathe pure fragrance on th' untainted air | D |
| Thou thou alone art worthy now no more | A |
| To pass and rest thee there | D |
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| And must I turn away | R |
| Hark hark it is my mother's voice I hear | M |
| Sadder than once it seem'd yet soft and clear | K |
| Doth she not seem to pray | R |
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| My name I caught the sound | B |
| Oh blessed tone of love the deep the mild | S |
| Mother my mother now receive thy child | S |
| Take back the lost and found | B |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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