Absence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK LCKC MGMG KNKN| What shall I do with all the days and hours | A |
| That must be counted ere I see thy face | B |
| How shall I charm the interval that lowers | A |
| Between this time and that sweet time of grace | B |
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| Shall I in slumber steep each weary sense | C |
| Weary with longing shall I flee away | D |
| Into past days and with some fond pretence | C |
| Cheat myself to forget the present day | D |
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| Shall love for thee lay on my soul the sin | E |
| Of casting from me God's great gift of time | F |
| Shall I these mists of memory locked within | E |
| Leave and forget life's purposes sublime | F |
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| Oh how or by what means may I contrive | G |
| To bring the hour that brings thee back more near | H |
| How may I teach my drooping hope to live | G |
| Until that blessed time and thou art here | I |
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| I'll tell thee for thy sake I will lay hold | J |
| Of all good aims and consecrate to thee | K |
| In worthy deeds each moment that is told | J |
| While thou beloved one art far from me | K |
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| For thee I will arouse my thoughts to try | L |
| All heavenward flights all high and holy strains | C |
| For thy dear sake I will walk patiently | K |
| Through these long hours nor call their minutes pains | C |
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| I will this dreary blank of absence make | M |
| A noble task time and will therein strive | G |
| To follow excellence and to o'ertake | M |
| More good than I have won since yet I live | G |
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| So may this doomed time build up in me | K |
| A thousand graces which shall thus be thine | N |
| So may my love and longing hallowed be | K |
| And thy dear thought an influence divine | N |
Frances Anne Kemble (fanny)
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