Lines, In Answer To A Question Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDECCEFGFHIDIJ KJLJMNMNOPQRSSTJJTJJ| I'll tell thee why this weary world meseemeth | A |
| But as the visions light of one who dreameth | A |
| Which pass like clouds leaving no trace behind | B |
| Why this strange life so full of sin and folly | C |
| In me awakeneth no melancholy | C |
| Nor leaveth shade or sadness on my mind | B |
| 'Tis not that with an undiscerning eye | D |
| I see the pageant wild go dancing by | D |
| Mistaking that which falsest is for true | E |
| 'Tis not that pleasure hath entwined me | C |
| 'Tis not that sorrow hath enshrined me | C |
| I bear no badge of roses or of rue | E |
| But in the inmost chambers of my soul | F |
| There is another world a blessed home | G |
| O'er which no living power holdeth control | F |
| Anigh to which ill things do never come | H |
| There shineth the glad sunlight of clear thought | I |
| With hope and faith holding communion high | D |
| Over a fragrant land with flowers wrought | I |
| Where gush the living springs of poesy | J |
| There speak the voices that I love to hear | K |
| There smile the glances that I love to see | J |
| There live the forms of those my soul holds dear | L |
| For ever in that secret world with me | J |
| They who have walked with me along life's way | M |
| And sever'd been by Fortune's adverse tide | N |
| Who ne'er again through Time's uncertain day | M |
| In weal or woe may wander by my side | N |
| These all dwell here nor these whom life alone | O |
| Divideth from me but the dead the dead | P |
| Those weary ones who to their rest are gone | Q |
| Whose footprints from the earth have vanished | R |
| Here dwell they all and here within this world | S |
| Like light within a summer sun cloud furled | S |
| My spirit dwells Therefore this evil life | T |
| With all its gilded snares and fair deceivings | J |
| Its wealth its want its pleasures and its grievings | J |
| Nor frights nor frets me by its idle strife | T |
| O thou who readest of thy courtesy | J |
| Whoe'er thou art I wish the same to thee | J |
Frances Anne Kemble (fanny)
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