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 hailA
Your dubious hues as on the robeB
Of night which wraps the slumbering globeB
I mark your traces paleA
Tired with the taper's sickly lightC
And with the wearying number'd nightC
I hail the streaks of morn divineD
And lo they break between the dewy wreathsE
That round my rural casement twineD
The fresh gale o'er the green lawn breathesF
It fans my feverish brow it calms the mental strifeG
And cheerily re illumes the lambent flame of lifeG
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The lark has her gay song begunH
She leaves her grassy nestI
And soars till the unrisen sunH
Gleams on her speckled breastI
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Now let me leave my restless bedJ
And o'er the spangled uplands treadJ
Now through the custom'd wood walk wendK
By many a green lane lies my wayL
Where high o'er head the wild briers bendK
Till on the mountain's summit grayL
I sit me down and mark the glorious dawn of dayL
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Oh Heaven the soft refreshing galeA
It breathes into my breastI
My sunk eye gleams my cheek so paleA
Is with new colours dress'dI
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Blithe Health thou soul of life and easeM
Come thou too on the balmy breezeM
Invigorate my frameN
I'll join with thee the buskin'd chaseO
With thee the distant clime will traceO
Beyond those clouds of flameN
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Above below what charms unfoldP
In all the varied viewQ
Before me all is burnish'd goldP
Behind the twilight's hueQ
The mists which on old Night awaitR
Far to the west they hold their stateR
They shun the clear blue face of MornS
Along the fine cerulean skyT
The fleecy clouds successive flyT
While bright prismatic beams their shadowy folds adornS
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And hark the thatcher has begunH
His whistle on the eavesU
And oft the hedger's bill is heardV
Among the rustling leavesU
The slow team creaks upon the roadW
The noisy whip resoundsU
The driver's voice his carol blitheX
The mower's stroke his whetting scytheY
Mix with the morning's soundsU
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Who would not rather take his seatZ
Beneath these clumps of treesU
The early dawn of day to greetZ
And catch the healthy breezeU
Than on the silken couch of SlothA2
Luxurious to lieT
Who would not from life's dreary wasteB2
Snatch when he could with eager hasteB2
An interval of joyC2
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To him who simply thus recountsU
The morning's pleasures o'erD2
Fate dooms ere long the scene must closeU
To ope on him no moreE2
Yet Morning unrepining stillF2
He'll greet thy beams awhileG2
And surely thou when o'er his graveH2
Solemn the whispering willows waveH2
Wilt sweetly on him smileG2
And the pale glowworm's pensive lightC
Will guide his ghostly walks in the drear moonless nightC

Henry Kirk White



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