The Sunbeam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL GGMM NNOO BBPP| Thou art no lingerer in monarch's hall | A |
| A joy thou art and a wealth to all | A |
| A bearer of hope unto land and sea | B |
| Sunbeam what gift hath the world like thee | B |
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| Thou art walking the billows and ocean smiles | C |
| Thou hast touch'd with glory his thousand isles | C |
| Thou hast lit up the ships and the feathery foam | D |
| And gladden'd the sailor like words from home | D |
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| To the solemn depths of the forest shades | E |
| Thou art streaming on thro' their green arcades | E |
| And the quivering leaves that have caught thy glow | F |
| Like fire flies glance to the pools below | F |
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| I look'd on the mountains a vapour lay | G |
| Folding their heights in its dark array | G |
| Thou brakest forth and the mist became | H |
| A crown and a mantle of living flame | H |
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| I look'd on the peasant's lowly cot | I |
| Something of sadness had wrapt the spot | I |
| But a gleam of thee on its lattice fell | J |
| And it laugh'd into beauty at that bright spell | J |
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| To the earth's wild places a guest thou art | K |
| Flushing the waste like the rose's heart | K |
| And thou scornest not from thy pomp to shed | L |
| A tender smile on the ruin's head | L |
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| Thou tak'st thro' the dim church aisle thy way | G |
| And its pillars from twilight flash forth to day | G |
| And its high pale tombs with their trophies old | M |
| Are bath'd in a flood as of molten gold | M |
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| And thou turnest not from the humblest grave | N |
| Where a flower to the sighing winds may wave | N |
| Thou scatterest its gloom like the dreams of rest | O |
| Thou sleepest in love on its grassy breast | O |
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| Sunbeam of summer oh what is like thee | B |
| Hope of the wilderness joy of the sea | B |
| One thing is like thee to mortals given | P |
| The faith touching all things with hues of Heaven | P |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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