The Deserted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIHI JKLKMDND OPQPRSRS TUTUVWVX Y KZKA2B2C2D2VD2VE2F2 G2GH2GTTI2J2I2J2AA K2L2K2L2M2M2N2O2N2O2 P2P2 EQ2EQ2R2R2S2NS2NT2T2 Q2 GCGCU2Q2U2Q2 V2O2I2O2W2AW2C Q2X2Q2X2Y2VY2V Q2Q2Q2Q2Q2IQ2ICome sit thee by my side once more | A |
'Tis long since thus we' met | B |
And though our dream of love is o'er | C |
Its sweetness lingers yet | B |
Its transient day has long been past | D |
Its flame has ceased to burn | E |
But Memory holds its spirit fast | D |
Safe in her sacred urn | E |
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I will not chide thy wanderings | F |
Nor ask why thou couldst flee | G |
A heart whose deep affection's springs | F |
Poured forth such love for thee | G |
We may not curb the restless mind | H |
Nor teach the wayward heart | I |
To love against its will nor bind | H |
It with the chains of art | I |
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I would but tell thee how in tears | J |
And bitterness my soul | K |
Has yearned with dreams through long long years | L |
Which it could not control | K |
And how the thought that clingeth to | M |
And twineth round the past | D |
For ever in my heart shall glow | N |
And be save one my last | D |
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They say thou hast another's love | O |
Well cherish it but thou | P |
Its lack of strength and depth wilt prove | Q |
Should sorrow cloud thy brow | P |
Though she may own a statelier form | R |
A fairer cheek than mine | S |
Her heart cannot so well and warm | R |
Respond each throb of thine | S |
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Her words were gentle but their tone | T |
Was sad as sorrow's sigh | U |
A tear drop trembled in his own | T |
As he sought her downcast eye | U |
A chord was struck within his breast | V |
That long untouched had lain | W |
Old memories started from their rest | V |
The maid was loved again | X |
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Stanzas | Y |
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On there are hours of sadness when the soul | K |
Torn from its every stay and crushed beneath | Z |
Its many griefs and spurning faith's control | K |
Pants with an earnest longing for the death | A2 |
Which would for ever close its dark career | B2 |
With the pale shroud and the remorseless bier | C2 |
When the harsh sterile nothingness of life | D2 |
First breaks upon the hope deluded breast | V |
And the heart sickens with the bootless strife | D2 |
That wrings its chords and longs to be at rest | V |
Ev'n if the blow that frees it from distress | E2 |
Should strike it into utter nothingness | F2 |
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Ah nothingness The thought at times will come | G2 |
The mind will wrestle with the mystery | G |
That clouds its being from its clay made home | H2 |
Its dwelling of a moment it will flee | G |
Into the far depths of the vast UNKNOWN | T |
In its vain searchings for th' eternal throne | T |
Of that Omnipotence which gave it birth | I2 |
And giving it a nature which might suit | J2 |
A seraph bound its destiny to earth | I2 |
And a few years in which to eat the fruit | J2 |
Of life's strange tree so bitter at its core | A |
Then death the quiet grave sleep and what more | A |
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Whence came we whither go we All is still | K2 |
And voiceless in the past A veil is drawn | L2 |
Across the future by life's mystic rill | K2 |
We sit and ponder watching for the dawn | L2 |
Of some yet unconceived far reaching thought | M2 |
By which our nature's secret shall be taught | M2 |
Why sorrow is our element why sin | N2 |
Is native in us by what curse we bear | O2 |
An ever aching crushing void within | N2 |
Our secret souls and why the little share | O2 |
Of happiness that mingles with our fate | P2 |
Is of such fleeting transitory date | P2 |
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Our loves our hopes what are they fruits which turn | E |
To ashes on our lips illusive lights | Q2 |
That cast a moment's brightness while they burn | E |
Then die and leave a darkness which affrights | Q2 |
Our spirits with its thrice redoubled gloom | R2 |
Making the sky a pall the earth a tomb | R2 |
And yet these are the all of life for which | S2 |
'Tis worth the wearing of its chain to know | N |
Wealth fame and power are but toys the rich | S2 |
The high and mighty with the base and low | N |
Alike before the reaper Death must fall | T2 |
So be it in the grave is rest for all | T2 |
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Stanzas | Q2 |
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When the leaf is on the tree | G |
And the bird is in the bower | C |
And the butterfly and bee | G |
Bear its treasures from the flower | C |
When the fields put on the sheen | U2 |
That to young eyed Spring belongs | Q2 |
When the groves and forests green | U2 |
Echo with a thousand songs | Q2 |
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When wild Beauty wanders forth | V2 |
Giving with no stinted care | O2 |
All her loveliness to earth | I2 |
All her sweetness to the air | O2 |
Then the heart with gladness stirred | W2 |
Mindful of its griefs no more | A |
Mounts and carols like a bird | W2 |
When the pearly shower is o'er | C |
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But the summer's sunny hours | Q2 |
As we count them pass away | X2 |
And its fairest fruits and flowers | Q2 |
Are but food for stern decay | X2 |
Then with wailings deep and loud | Y2 |
Like the sea's in its unrest | V |
Winter spreads his icy shroud | Y2 |
O'er the bare earth's frozen breast | V |
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Thus the spirit's early gladness | Q2 |
Sorrow chills or time removes | Q2 |
And the soul in tears and sadness | Q2 |
Mourns its perished joys and loves | Q2 |
Hope will lose its trusting boldness | Q2 |
One by one its beams depart | I |
And Despair with icy coldness | Q2 |
Winds its mantle round the heart | I |
George W. Sands
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