To The Morning, Written During Illness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEDFGG HIHI JJKLKLL AIAI MMNOON PQPQRRSTTS HUVUWUXYU ZUZUA2TB2B2C2 UD2UE2F2G2H2H2G2CC| Beams of the daybreak faint I hail | A |
| Your dubious hues as on the robe | B |
| Of night which wraps the slumbering globe | B |
| I mark your traces pale | A |
| Tired with the taper's sickly light | C |
| And with the wearying number'd night | C |
| I hail the streaks of morn divine | D |
| And lo they break between the dewy wreaths | E |
| That round my rural casement twine | D |
| The fresh gale o'er the green lawn breathes | F |
| It fans my feverish brow it calms the mental strife | G |
| And cheerily re illumes the lambent flame of life | G |
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| The lark has her gay song begun | H |
| She leaves her grassy nest | I |
| And soars till the unrisen sun | H |
| Gleams on her speckled breast | I |
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| Now let me leave my restless bed | J |
| And o'er the spangled uplands tread | J |
| Now through the custom'd wood walk wend | K |
| By many a green lane lies my way | L |
| Where high o'er head the wild briers bend | K |
| Till on the mountain's summit gray | L |
| I sit me down and mark the glorious dawn of day | L |
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| Oh Heaven the soft refreshing gale | A |
| It breathes into my breast | I |
| My sunk eye gleams my cheek so pale | A |
| Is with new colours dress'd | I |
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| Blithe Health thou soul of life and ease | M |
| Come thou too on the balmy breeze | M |
| Invigorate my frame | N |
| I'll join with thee the buskin'd chase | O |
| With thee the distant clime will trace | O |
| Beyond those clouds of flame | N |
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| Above below what charms unfold | P |
| In all the varied view | Q |
| Before me all is burnish'd gold | P |
| Behind the twilight's hue | Q |
| The mists which on old Night await | R |
| Far to the west they hold their state | R |
| They shun the clear blue face of Morn | S |
| Along the fine cerulean sky | T |
| The fleecy clouds successive fly | T |
| While bright prismatic beams their shadowy folds adorn | S |
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| And hark the thatcher has begun | H |
| His whistle on the eaves | U |
| And oft the hedger's bill is heard | V |
| Among the rustling leaves | U |
| The slow team creaks upon the road | W |
| The noisy whip resounds | U |
| The driver's voice his carol blithe | X |
| The mower's stroke his whetting scythe | Y |
| Mix with the morning's sounds | U |
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| Who would not rather take his seat | Z |
| Beneath these clumps of trees | U |
| The early dawn of day to greet | Z |
| And catch the healthy breeze | U |
| Than on the silken couch of Sloth | A2 |
| Luxurious to lie | T |
| Who would not from life's dreary waste | B2 |
| Snatch when he could with eager haste | B2 |
| An interval of joy | C2 |
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| To him who simply thus recounts | U |
| The morning's pleasures o'er | D2 |
| Fate dooms ere long the scene must close | U |
| To ope on him no more | E2 |
| Yet Morning unrepining still | F2 |
| He'll greet thy beams awhile | G2 |
| And surely thou when o'er his grave | H2 |
| Solemn the whispering willows wave | H2 |
| Wilt sweetly on him smile | G2 |
| And the pale glowworm's pensive light | C |
| Will guide his ghostly walks in the drear moonless night | C |
Henry Kirk White
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