Solitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFBB GGHH IIJJ KKBB LMNOPPQQNRHHSSTUPPVV WWXB HYHYZA2ZA2B2C2C2B2WD 2D2WIt 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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