Tis An Old Tale And Often Told Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEAAFFGHIIJKLL AAAAMIAANOAAPPAAAAQQ RRSSAAAATA| Are they indeed the bitterest tears we shed | A |
| Those we let fall over the silent dead | A |
| Can our thoughts image forth no darker doom | B |
| Than that which wraps us in the peaceful tomb | B |
| Whom have ye laid beneath that mossy grave | C |
| Round which the slender sunny grass blades wave | C |
| Who are ye calling back to tread again | D |
| This weary walk of life towards whom in vain | E |
| Are your fond eyes and yearning hearts upraised | A |
| The young the loved the honoured and the praised | A |
| Come hither look upon the faded cheek | F |
| Of that still woman who with eyelids meek | F |
| Veils her most mournful eyes upon her brow | G |
| Sometimes the sensitive blood will faintly glow | H |
| When reckless hands her heart wounds roughly tear | I |
| But patience oftener sits palely there | I |
| Beauty has left her hope and joy have long | J |
| Fled from her heart yet she is young is young | K |
| Has many years as human tongues would tell | L |
| Upon the face of this blank earth to dwell | L |
| Looks she not sad 'tis but a tale of old | A |
| Told o'er and o'er and ever to be told | A |
| The hourly story of our every day | A |
| Which when men hear they sigh and turn away | A |
| A tale too trite almost to find an ear | M |
| A woe too common to deserve a tear | I |
| She is the daughter of a distant land | A |
| Her kindred are far off her maiden hand | A |
| Sought for by many was obtained by one | N |
| Who owned a different birthland from her own | O |
| But what reck'd she of that as low she knelt | A |
| Breathing her marriage vows her fond heart felt | A |
| For thee I give up country home and friends | P |
| Thy love for each for all shall make amends | P |
| And was she loved perishing by her side | A |
| The children of her bosom drooped and died | A |
| The bitter life they drew from her cold breast | A |
| Flicker'd and failed she laid them down to rest | A |
| Two pale young blossoms in their early sleep | Q |
| And weeping said They have not lived to weep | Q |
| And weeps she yet no to her weary eyes | R |
| The bliss of tears her frozen heart denies | R |
| Complaint or sigh breathes not upon her lips | S |
| Her life is one dark fatal deep eclipse | S |
| Lead her to the green grave where ye have laid | A |
| The creature that ye mourn let it be said | A |
| Here love and youth and beauty are at rest | A |
| She only sadly murmurs Blest most blest | A |
| And turns from gazing lest her misery | T |
| Should make her sin and pray to Heaven to die | A |
Frances Anne Kemble (fanny)
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