Etheline Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIJ KLMLNOPOQRSR TUVWXYZYA2DB2D C2D2E2D2BF2AF2G2H2I2 J2| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| '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 |
| - | |
| 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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