On Whit-monday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MHNO PQRS TUDV VWXN YZA2V B2MGC2 D2CRE2Hark 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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