Etheline Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIJ KLMLNOPOQRSR TUVWXYZYA2DB2D C2D2E2D2BF2AF2G2H2I2 J2The heart that once was rich with light | A |
And happy in your grace | B |
Now lieth cold beneath the scorn | C |
That gathers on your face | B |
And every joy it knew before | D |
And every templed dream | E |
Is paler than the dying flash | F |
On yonder mountain stream | E |
The soul regretting foundered bliss | G |
Amid the wreck of years | H |
Hath mourned it with intensity | I |
Too deep for human tears | J |
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The forest fadeth underneath | K |
The blast that rushes by | L |
The dripping leaves are white with death | M |
But Love will never die | L |
We both have seen the starry moss | N |
That clings where Ruin reigns | O |
And one must know his lonely breast | P |
Affection still retains | O |
Through all the sweetest hopes of life | Q |
That clustered round and round | R |
Are lying now like withered things | S |
Forsaken on the ground | R |
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'Tis hard to think of what we were | T |
And what we might have been | U |
Had not an evil spirit crept | V |
Across the tranquil scene | W |
Had fervent feelings in your soul | X |
Not failed nor ceased to shine | Y |
As pure as those existing on | Z |
And burning still in mine | Y |
Had every treasure at your feet | A2 |
That I was wont to pour | D |
Been never thrown like worthless weeds | B2 |
Upon a barren shore | D |
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The bitter edge of grief has passed | C2 |
I would not now upbraid | D2 |
Or count to you the broken vows | E2 |
So often idly made | D2 |
I would not cross your path to chase | B |
The falsehood from your brow | F2 |
I know with all that borrowed light | A |
You are not happy now | F2 |
Since those that once have trampled down | G2 |
Affection's early claim | H2 |
Have lost a peace they need not hope | I2 |
To find on earth again | J2 |
Henry Kendall
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