Ella With The Shining Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NCOC PQPQ RSTS UVUV WXWX YZYZ A2B2C2B2 GD2GE2 PQPQ| Through many a fragrant cedar grove | A |
| A darkened water moans | B |
| And there pale Memory stood with Love | C |
| Amongst the moss green stones | B |
| The shimmering sunlight fell and kissed | D |
| The grasstree s golden sheaves | E |
| But we were troubled with a mist | D |
| Of music in the leaves | E |
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| One passed us like a sudden gleam | F |
| Her face was deadly fair | G |
| Oh go we said you homeless Dream | F |
| Of Ella s shining hair | G |
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| We halt like one with tired wings | H |
| And we would fain forget | I |
| That there are tempting maddening things | H |
| Too high to clutch at yet | I |
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| Though seven Springs have filled the Wood | J |
| With pleasant hints and signs | K |
| Since faltering feet went forth and stood | J |
| With Death amongst the pines | K |
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| From point to point unwittingly | L |
| We wish to clamber still | M |
| Till we have light enough to see | L |
| The summits of the hill | M |
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| O do not cry my sister dear | N |
| Said beaming Hope to Love | C |
| Though we have been so troubled here | O |
| The Land is calm above | C |
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| Beyond the regions of the storm | P |
| We ll find the golden gates | Q |
| Where all the day a radiant Form | P |
| Our Ella sits and waits | Q |
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| And Memory murmured She was one | R |
| Of God s own darlings lent | S |
| And Angels wept that she had gone | T |
| And wondered why she went | S |
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| I know they came and talked to her | U |
| Through every garden breeze | V |
| About eternal Hills of Myrrh | U |
| And quiet Jasper Seas | V |
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| For her the Earth contained no charms | W |
| All things were strange and wild | X |
| And I believe a Seraph s arms | W |
| Caught up the sainted Child | X |
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| And Love looked round and said Oh you | Y |
| That sit by Beulah s streams | Z |
| Shake on this thirsty life the dew | Y |
| Which brings immortal dreams | Z |
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| Ah turn to us and greet us oft | A2 |
| With looks of pitying balm | B2 |
| And hints of heaven in whispers soft | C2 |
| To make our troubles calm | B2 |
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| My Ella with the shining hair | G |
| Behold these many years | D2 |
| We ve held up wearied hands in prayer | G |
| And groped about in tears | E2 |
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| But Hope sings on Beyond the storm | P |
| We ll find the golden gates | Q |
| Where all the day a radiant Form | P |
| Our Ella sits and waits | Q |
Henry Kendall
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