A Gleam Of Sunshine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFE GHIH JKLK JMNM JOKO PQRQ STAT UMVM SIWI XIYI ZA2AB2 C2D2E2D2 BF2G2F2| e scene | A |
| And summon from the shadowy Past | B |
| The forms that once have been | C |
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| The Past and Present here unite | D |
| Beneath Time's flowing tide | E |
| Like footprints hidden by a brook | F |
| But seen on either side | E |
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| Here runs the highway to the town | G |
| There the green lane descends | H |
| Through which I walked to church with thee | I |
| O gentlest of my friends | H |
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| The shadow of the linden trees | J |
| Lay moving on the grass | K |
| Between them and the moving boughs | L |
| A shadow thou didst pass | K |
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| Thy dress was like the lilies | J |
| And thy heart as pure as they | M |
| One of God's holy messengers | N |
| Did walk with me that day | M |
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| I saw the branches of the trees | J |
| Bend down thy touch to meet | O |
| The clover blossoms in the grass | K |
| Rise up to kiss thy feet | O |
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| Sleep sleep to day tormenting cares | P |
| Of earth and folly born | Q |
| Solemnly sang the village choir | R |
| On that sweet Sabbath morn | Q |
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| Through the closed blinds the golden sun | S |
| Poured in a dusty beam | T |
| Like the celestial ladder seen | A |
| By Jacob in his dream | T |
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| And ever and anon the wind | U |
| Sweet scented with the hay | M |
| Turned o'er the hymn book's fluttering leaves | V |
| That on the window lay | M |
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| Long was the good man's sermon | S |
| Yet it seemed not so to me | I |
| For he spake of Ruth the beautiful | W |
| And still I thought of thee | I |
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| Long was the prayer he uttered | X |
| Yet it seemed not so to me | I |
| For in my heart I prayed with him | Y |
| And still I thought of thee | I |
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| But now alas the place seems changed | Z |
| Thou art no longer here | A2 |
| Part of the sunshine of the scene | A |
| With thee did disappear | B2 |
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| Though thoughts deep rooted in my heart | C2 |
| Like pine trees dark and high | D2 |
| Subdue the light of noon and breathe | E2 |
| A low and ceaseless sigh | D2 |
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| This memory brightens o'er the past | B |
| As when the sun concealed | F2 |
| Behind some cloud that near us hangs | G2 |
| Shines on a distant field | F2 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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