Solace. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCAA DDEEFF BCGGHH IIJJKK| One Autumn evening wandering when the sun was hanging low | A |
| Through a woodland where the music of a streamlet's gentle flow | A |
| Commingled with the rustling of the yellow golden leaves | B |
| And the idling breeze's sighing as it floated through the trees | C |
| I heard sweet voices whispering in accents soft and low | A |
| That lulled to rest the troubled soul like those of long ago | A |
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| Enchanted thus I lingered by unseen hands fast bound | D |
| My willing fancy captive to the magic of sweet sound | D |
| And eagerly I listened to the whispering voices tell | E |
| Of happy days of childhood and the tear unbidden fell | E |
| As were pictured to the mind again the halcyon scenes of yore | F |
| And loved ones that no more I'll meet till on the silent shore | F |
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| And as the slanting shadows fell athwart the scattered leaves | B |
| The language that the voices spoke was formed of words like these | C |
| You may mingle with the sordid world in eager restless haste | G |
| To struggle for the golden fruit that Mammon loves to taste | G |
| But find at last the end attained that there are better things | H |
| To satisfy the longing heart that sweeter solace brings | H |
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| Thy Springtime thy Summer and thy Autumn's mellowed haze | I |
| If rightly lived and rightly spent will bring rare happy days | I |
| That temper with their sunshine the frigid Winter's wrath | J |
| When gathering storms are darkling o'er life's declining path | J |
| And lend a ray celestial that hoarded gold ne'er gave | K |
| To lighten all thy journey from the cradle to the grave | K |
George W. Doneghy
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