Sorrow And Joys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH III JJJ AAK| Bury thy sorrows and they shall rise | A |
| As souls to the immortal skies | A |
| And there look down like mothers' eyes | A |
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| But let thy joys be fresh as flowers | B |
| That suck the honey of the showers | B |
| And bloom alike on huts and towers | B |
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| So shall thy days be sweet and bright | C |
| Solemn and sweet thy starry night | C |
| Conscious of love each change of light | C |
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| The stars will watch the flowers asleep | D |
| The flowers will feel the soft stars weep | D |
| And both will mix sensations deep | D |
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| With these below with those above | E |
| Sits evermore the brooding dove | E |
| Uniting both in bonds of love | E |
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| For both by nature are akin | F |
| Sorrow the ashen fruit of sin | F |
| And joy the juice of life within | F |
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| Children of earth are these and those | G |
| The spirits of divine repose | G |
| Death radiant o'er all human woes | G |
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| O think what then had been thy doom | H |
| If homeless and without a tomb | H |
| They had been left to haunt the gloom | H |
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| O think again what now they are | I |
| Motherly love tho' dim and far | I |
| Imaged in every lustrous star | I |
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| For they in their salvation know | J |
| No vestige of their former woe | J |
| While thro' them all the heavens do flow | J |
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| Thus art thou wedded to the skies | A |
| And watched by ever loving eyes | A |
| And warned by yearning sympathies | K |
George Meredith
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