Written After Spending A Day At West Point. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDDEEFFAAEEGH EEIIAAJKAALLMMLLNOO| Were they but dreams Upon the darkening world | A |
| Evening comes down the wings of fire are furled | A |
| On which the day soared to the sunny west | A |
| The moon sits calmly like a soul at rest | A |
| Looking upon the never resting earth | B |
| All things in heaven wait on the solemn birth | B |
| Of night but where has fled the happy dream | C |
| That at this hour last night our life did seem | C |
| Where are the mountains with their tangled hair | D |
| The leafy hollow and the rocky stair | D |
| Where are the shadows of the solemn hills | E |
| And the fresh music of the summer rills | E |
| Where are the wood paths winding long and steep | F |
| And the great glorious river broad and deep | F |
| And the thick copses where soft breezes meet | A |
| And the wild torrent's snowy leaping feet | A |
| The rustling rocking boughs the running streams | E |
| Where are they all gone gone were they but dreams | E |
| And where oh where are the light footsteps gone | G |
| That from the mountain side came dancing down | H |
| The voices full of mirth the loving eyes | E |
| The happy hearts the human paradise | E |
| The youth the love the life that revelled here | I |
| Are they too gone Upon Time's shadowy bier | I |
| The pale cold hours of joys now past are laid | A |
| Perhaps not soon from memory's gaze to fade | A |
| But never to be reckoned o'er again | J |
| In all life's future store of bliss and pain | K |
| From the bright eyes the sunshine may depart | A |
| Youth flies love dies and from the joyous heart | A |
| Hope's gushing fountain ebbs too soon away | L |
| Nor spares one drop for that disastrous day | L |
| When from the barren waste of after life | M |
| The weariness the worldliness the strife | M |
| The soul looks o'er the desert of its way | L |
| To the green gardens of its early day | L |
| The paradise for which we vainly mourn | N |
| The heaven to which our ling'ring eyes still turn | O |
| To which our footsteps never shall return | O |
Frances Anne Kemble (fanny)
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