To The Morning, Written During Illness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEDFGG HIHI JJKLKLL AIAI MMNOON PQPQRRSTTS HUVUWUXYU ZUZUA2TB2B2C2 UD2UE2F2G2H2H2G2CCBeams 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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