On Whit-monday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MHNO PQRS TUDV VWXN YZA2V B2MGC2 D2CRE2| Hark how the merry bells ring jocund round | A |
| And now they die upon the veering breeze | B |
| Anon they thunder loud | C |
| Full on the musing ear | D |
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| Wafted in varying cadence by the shore | E |
| Of the still twinkling river they bespeak | F |
| A day of jubilee | G |
| An ancient holiday | H |
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| And lo the rural revels are begun | I |
| And gaily echoing to the laughing sky | J |
| On the smooth shaven green | K |
| Resounds the voice of Mirth | L |
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| Alas regardless of the tongue of Fate | M |
| That tells them 'tis but as an hour since they | H |
| Who now are in their graves | N |
| Kept up the Whitsun dance | O |
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| And that another hour and they must fall | P |
| Like those who went before and sleep as still | Q |
| Beneath the silent sod | R |
| A cold and cheerless sleep | S |
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| Yet why should thoughts like these intrude to scare | T |
| The vagrant Happiness when she will deign | U |
| To smile upon us here | D |
| A transient visitor | V |
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| Mortals be gladsome while ye have the power | V |
| And laugh and seize the glittering lapse of joy | W |
| In time the bell will toll | X |
| That warns ye to your graves | N |
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| I to the woodland solitude will bend | Y |
| My lonesome way where Mirth's obstreperous shout | Z |
| Shall not intrude to break | A2 |
| The meditative hour | V |
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| There will I ponder on the state of man | B2 |
| Joyless and sad of heart and consecrate | M |
| This day of jubilee | G |
| To sad reflection's shrine | C2 |
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| And I will cast my fond eye far beyond | D2 |
| This world of care to where the steeple loud | C |
| Shall rock above the sod | R |
| Where I shall sleep in peace | E2 |
Henry Kirk White
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