Evangeline: Part The Second. I. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABDEAFGHIHJGKGBLA EMNONBHAPAGQRAKRHRGS RSAGTAASUALSAABVWHHV VSBHSXGGGAAAYAZ| MANY a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand Pr | A |
| When on the falling tide the freighted vessels departed | B |
| Bearing a nation with all its household gods into exile | C |
| Exile without an end and without an example in story | A |
| Far asunder on separate coasts the Acadians landed | B |
| Scattered were they like flakes of snow when the wind from the northeast | D |
| Strikes aslant through the fogs that darken the Banks of Newfoundland | E |
| Friendless homeless hopeless they wandered from city to city | A |
| From the cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern savannas | F |
| From the bleak shores of the sea to the lands where the Father of Waters | G |
| Seizes the hills in his hands and drags them down to the ocean | H |
| Deep in their sands to bury the scattered bones of the mammoth | I |
| Friends they sought and homes and many despairing heart broken | H |
| Asked of the earth but a grave and no longer a friend nor a fireside | J |
| Written their history stands on tablets of stone in the churchyards | G |
| Long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandered | K |
| Lowly and meek in spirit and patiently suffering all things | G |
| Fair was she and young but alas before her extended | B |
| Dreary and vast and silent the desert of life with its pathway | L |
| Marked by the graves of those who had sorrowed and suffered before her | A |
| Passions long extinguished and hopes long dead and abandoned | E |
| As the emigrant's way o'er the Western desert is marked by | M |
| Camp fires long consumed and bones that bleach in the sunshine | N |
| Something there was in her life incomplete imperfect unfinished | O |
| As if a morning of June with all its music and sunshine | N |
| Suddenly paused in the sky and fading slowly descended | B |
| Into the east again from whence it late had arisen | H |
| Sometimes she lingered in towns till urged by the fever within her | A |
| Urged by a restless longing the hunger and thirst of the spirit | P |
| She would commence again her endless search and endeavor | A |
| Sometimes in churchyards strayed and gazed on the crosses and tombstones | G |
| Sat by some nameless grave and thought that perhaps in its bosom | Q |
| He was already at rest and she longed to slumber beside him | R |
| Sometimes a rumor a hearsay an inarticulate whisper | A |
| Came with its airy hand to point and beckon her forward | K |
| Sometimes she spake with those who had seen her beloved and known him | R |
| But it was long ago in some far off place or forgotten | H |
| 'Gabriel Lajeunesse ' they said 'O yes we have seen him | R |
| He was with Basil the blacksmith and both have gone to the prairies | G |
| Coureurs des Bois are they and famous hunters and trappers ' | S |
| 'Gabriel Lajeunesse ' said others 'O yes we have seen him | R |
| He is a Voyageur in the lowlands of Louisiana ' | S |
| Then would they say 'Dear child why dream and wait for him longer | A |
| Are there not other youths as fair as Gabriel others | G |
| Who have hearts as tender and true and spirits as loyal | T |
| Here is Baptiste Leblanc the notary's son who has loved thee | A |
| Many a tedious year come give him thy hand and be happy | A |
| Thou art too fair to be left to braid St Catherine's tresses ' | S |
| Then would Evangeline answer serenely but sadly 'I cannot | U |
| Whither my heart has gone there follows my hand and not elsewhere | A |
| For when the heart goes before like a lamp and illumines the pathway | L |
| Many things are made clear that else lie hidden in darkness ' | S |
| Thereupon the priest her friend and father confessor | A |
| Said with a smile 'O daughter thy God thus speaketh within thee | A |
| Talk not of wasted affection affection never was wasted | B |
| If it enrich not the heart of another its waters returning | V |
| Back to their springs like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment | W |
| That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain | H |
| Patience accomplish thy labor accomplish thy work of affection | H |
| Sorrow and silence are strong and patient endurance is godlike | V |
| Therefore accomplish thy labor of love till the heart is made godlike | V |
| Purified strengthened perfected and rendered more worthy of heaven ' | S |
| Cheered by the good man's words Evangeline labored and waited | B |
| Still in her heart she heard the funeral dirge of the ocean | H |
| But with its sound there was mingled a voice that whispered 'Despair not ' | S |
| Thus did that poor soul wander in want and cheerless discomfort | X |
| Bleeding barefooted over the shards and thorns of existence | G |
| Let me essay O Muse to follow the wanderer's footsteps | G |
| Not through each devious path each changeful year of existence | G |
| But as a traveller follows a streamlet's course through the valley | A |
| Far from its margin at times and seeing the gleam of its water | A |
| Here and there in some open space and at intervals only | A |
| Then drawing nearer its banks through sylvan glooms that conceal it | Y |
| Though he behold it not he can hear its continuous murmur | A |
| Happy at length if he find the spot where it reaches an outlet | Z |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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