Lines To A Friend, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KLMM NNOO PPQR STGG U BB VVWW| ON REMOVING FROM HER NATIVE VILLAGE | A |
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| The golden rays of sunset fall on a snow clad hill | B |
| As standing by my window I gaze there long and still | B |
| I see a roof and a chimney and some tall elms standing near | C |
| While the winds that sway their branches bring voices to my ear | D |
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| They tell of a darkened hearth stone that once shone bright and gay | E |
| And of old familiar faces that have sadly passed away | E |
| How a stranger on the threshold with careless aspect stands | F |
| And gazes on the acres that have passed into his hands | F |
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| I shudder as these voices so fraught with mournful woe | G |
| Steal on my spirit's hearing in cadence sad and low | G |
| And think I will not hear them but ah who can control | H |
| The gloomy thoughts that enter and brood upon the soul | H |
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| So turning from my window while darkness deepens round | I |
| And the wailing winds sweep onward with yet more piteous sound | I |
| I feel within my bosom far wilder whirlwinds start | J |
| And sweep the cloudy heaven that bends above my heart | J |
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| I have no power to quell them so let them rage and roar | K |
| The sooner will their raging and fury all be o'er | L |
| I've seen Atlantic's billows 'neath tempests fiercely swell | M |
| But O the calm succeeding I have no words to tell | M |
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| I think of you and wonder if you are happy now | N |
| Floats there no shade of sorrow at times across your brow | N |
| When daily tasks are ended and thought is free to roam | O |
| Doth it not bear you swiftly back to that dear old home | O |
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| And then with wizard fingers doth Memory open fast | P |
| A thrilling panorama of all the changeful past | P |
| Where blending light and shadow skip airy o'er the scene | Q |
| Painting in vivid contrast what is and what has been | R |
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| And say does not your mother remember yet with tears | S |
| The spot where calm and peaceful have lapsed so many years | T |
| O would some kindly spirit might give us all to know | G |
| How much a tender parent will for a child forego | G |
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| We prized your worth while with us but now you're gone from sight | U |
| We feel 'how blessings brighten while they are taking flight ' | - |
| O don't forget the homestead upon the pleasant hill | B |
| Nor yet the love lit home you have in all our memories still | B |
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| Come often come to visit the haunts your childhood knew | V |
| We pledge you earnest welcome unbought unfeigned and true | V |
| And when before your vision new hopes and pleasure rise | W |
| Turn sometimes with a sunny thought toward your native skies | W |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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