Solitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFBB GGHH IIJJ KKBB LMNOPPQQNRHHSSTUPPVV WWXB HYHYZA2ZA2B2C2C2B2WD 2D2W

It is not that my lot is lowA
That bids this silent tear to flowA
It is not grief that bids me moanB
It is that I am all aloneB
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In woods and glens I love to roamC
When the tired hedger hies him homeC
Or by the woodland pool to restD
When pale the star looks on its breastD
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Yet when the silent evening sighsE
With hallow'd airs and symphoniesF
My spirit takes another toneB
And sighs that it is all aloneB
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The autumn leaf is sere and deadG
It floats upon the water's bedG
I would not be a leaf to dieH
Without recording sorrow's sighH
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The woods and winds with sullen wailI
Tell all the same unvaried taleI
I've none to smile when I am freeJ
And when I sigh to sigh with meJ
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Yet in my dreams a form I viewK
That thinks on me and loves me tooK
I start and when the vision's flownB
I weep that I am all aloneB
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If far from me the Fates removeL
Domestic peace connubial loveM
The prattling ring the social cheerN
Affection's voice affection's tearO
Ye sterner powers that bind the heartP
To me your iron aid impartP
O teach me when the nights are chillQ
And my fireside is lone and stillQ
When to the blaze that crackles nearN
I turn a tired and pensive earR
And Nature conquering bids me sighH
For love's soft accents whispering nighH
O teach me on that heavenly roadS
That leads to Truth's occult abodeS
To wrap my soul in dreams sublimeT
Till earth and care no more be mineU
Let bless'd Philosophy impartP
Her soothing measures to my heartP
And while with Plato's ravish'd earsV
I list the music of the spheresV
Or on the mystic symbols poreW
That hide the Chald's sublimer loreW
I shall not brood on summers goneX
Nor think that I am all aloneB
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Fanny upon thy breast I may not lieH
Fanny thou dost not hear me when I speakY
Where art thou love Around I turn my eyeH
And as I turn the tear is on my cheekY
Was it a dream or did my love beholdZ
Indeed my lonely couch Methought the breathA2
Fann'd not her bloodless lip her eye was coldZ
And hollow and the livery of deathA2
Invested her pale forehead Sainted maidB2
My thoughts oft rest with thee in thy cold graveC2
Through the long wintry night when wind and waveC2
Rock the dark house where thy poor head is laidB2
Yet hush my fond heart hush there is a shoreW
Of better promise and I know at lastD2
When the long sabbath of the tomb is pastD2
We two shall meet in Christ to part no moreW

Henry Kirk White



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