Comfort Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE AFAF GHGH IJKJ CLBL D| Dark head by the fireside brooding | A |
| Sad upon your ears | B |
| Whirlwinds of the earth intruding | A |
| Sound in wrath and tears | C |
| - | |
| Tender hearted in your lonely | D |
| Sorrow I would fain | E |
| Comfort you and say that only | D |
| Gods could feel such pain | E |
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| Only spirits know such longing | A |
| For the far away | F |
| And the fiery fancies thronging | A |
| Rise not out of clay | F |
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| Keep the secret sense celestial | G |
| Of the starry birth | H |
| Though about you call the bestial | G |
| Voices of the earth | H |
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| If a thousand ages since | I |
| Hurled us from the throne | J |
| Then a thousand ages wins | K |
| Back again our own | J |
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| Sad one dry away your tears | C |
| Sceptred you shall rise | L |
| Equal mid the crystal spheres | B |
| With seraphs kingly wise | L |
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| February | D |
George William Russell
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