I'm Pleased, And Yet I'm Sad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJGKKG LLMNNO PPEFFE| When twilight steals along the ground | A |
| And all the bells are ringing round | A |
| One two three four and five | B |
| I at my study window sit | C |
| And wrapp'd in many a musing fit | C |
| To bliss am all alive | B |
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| But though impressions calm and sweet | D |
| Thrill round my heart a holy heat | D |
| And I am inly glad | E |
| The tear drop stands in either eye | F |
| And yet I cannot tell thee why | F |
| I'm pleased and yet I'm sad | E |
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| The silvery rack that flies away | G |
| Like mortal life or pleasure's ray | G |
| Does that disturb my breast | H |
| Nay what have I a studious man | I |
| To do with life's unstable plan | I |
| Or pleasure's fading vest | H |
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| Is it that here I must not stop | J |
| But o'er yon blue hill's woody top | J |
| Must bend my lonely way | G |
| No surely no for give but me | K |
| My own fireside and I shall be | K |
| At home where'er I stray | G |
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| Then is it that yon steeple there | L |
| With music sweet shall fill the air | L |
| When thou no more canst hear | M |
| Oh no oh no for then forgiven | N |
| I shall be with my God in heaven | N |
| Released from every fear | O |
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| Then whence it is I cannot tell | P |
| But there is some mysterious spell | P |
| That holds me when I'm glad | E |
| And so the tear drop fills my eye | F |
| When yet in truth I know not why | F |
| Or wherefore I am sad | E |
Henry Kirk White
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