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 low | A |
| That bids this silent tear to flow | A |
| It is not grief that bids me moan | B |
| It is that I am all alone | B |
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| In woods and glens I love to roam | C |
| When the tired hedger hies him home | C |
| Or by the woodland pool to rest | D |
| When pale the star looks on its breast | D |
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| Yet when the silent evening sighs | E |
| With hallow'd airs and symphonies | F |
| My spirit takes another tone | B |
| And sighs that it is all alone | B |
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| The autumn leaf is sere and dead | G |
| It floats upon the water's bed | G |
| I would not be a leaf to die | H |
| Without recording sorrow's sigh | H |
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| The woods and winds with sullen wail | I |
| Tell all the same unvaried tale | I |
| I've none to smile when I am free | J |
| And when I sigh to sigh with me | J |
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| Yet in my dreams a form I view | K |
| That thinks on me and loves me too | K |
| I start and when the vision's flown | B |
| I weep that I am all alone | B |
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| If far from me the Fates remove | L |
| Domestic peace connubial love | M |
| The prattling ring the social cheer | N |
| Affection's voice affection's tear | O |
| Ye sterner powers that bind the heart | P |
| To me your iron aid impart | P |
| O teach me when the nights are chill | Q |
| And my fireside is lone and still | Q |
| When to the blaze that crackles near | N |
| I turn a tired and pensive ear | R |
| And Nature conquering bids me sigh | H |
| For love's soft accents whispering nigh | H |
| O teach me on that heavenly road | S |
| That leads to Truth's occult abode | S |
| To wrap my soul in dreams sublime | T |
| Till earth and care no more be mine | U |
| Let bless'd Philosophy impart | P |
| Her soothing measures to my heart | P |
| And while with Plato's ravish'd ears | V |
| I list the music of the spheres | V |
| Or on the mystic symbols pore | W |
| That hide the Chald's sublimer lore | W |
| I shall not brood on summers gone | X |
| Nor think that I am all alone | B |
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| Fanny upon thy breast I may not lie | H |
| Fanny thou dost not hear me when I speak | Y |
| Where art thou love Around I turn my eye | H |
| And as I turn the tear is on my cheek | Y |
| Was it a dream or did my love behold | Z |
| Indeed my lonely couch Methought the breath | A2 |
| Fann'd not her bloodless lip her eye was cold | Z |
| And hollow and the livery of death | A2 |
| Invested her pale forehead Sainted maid | B2 |
| My thoughts oft rest with thee in thy cold grave | C2 |
| Through the long wintry night when wind and wave | C2 |
| Rock the dark house where thy poor head is laid | B2 |
| Yet hush my fond heart hush there is a shore | W |
| Of better promise and I know at last | D2 |
| When the long sabbath of the tomb is past | D2 |
| We two shall meet in Christ to part no more | W |
Henry Kirk White
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