Rutha Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KLML GINI OPOP HQAQ AROR ASMS TAUA VWHW| The days are long and lonely | A |
| The weary eve comes on | B |
| And the nights are filled with dreaming | C |
| Of one beloved and gone | D |
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| I reach out in the darkness | E |
| And clasp but empty air | F |
| For Rutha dear has vanished | G |
| I wonder wonder where | F |
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| Yet must it be her nature | H |
| So lovely pure and true | I |
| So nearly like the angels | J |
| Is she an angel too | I |
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| The cottage is dismantled | K |
| Of all that made it bright | L |
| Beyond its silent portal | M |
| No love nor life nor light | L |
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| Where are the hopes I cherished | G |
| The joys that once I knew | I |
| The dreams the aspirations | N |
| All all are perished too | I |
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| Yes love's dear chain is broken | O |
| From shore to shore I roam | P |
| No comfort no companion | O |
| No happiness no home | P |
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| Oh could I but enfold her | H |
| Unto my heart once more | Q |
| If aught could e'er restore me | A |
| My darling as before | Q |
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| If God would only tell me | A |
| Such myriads above | R |
| Why He must needs have taken | O |
| The one I loved to love | R |
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| If God would only tell me | A |
| Why multitudes are left | S |
| Unhappy and unlovely | M |
| And I am thus bereft | S |
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| If O my soul be silent | T |
| And some day thou shalt see | A |
| Through mystery and shadow | U |
| And know why it must be | A |
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| To every cry of anguish | V |
| From every heart distressed | W |
| Can be no other answer | H |
| Than this God knoweth best | W |
Hattie Howard
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