Flower-de-luce: Hawthorne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA CACA DEDE FAFA GCGC AHAH IAIA JBJB| How beautiful it was that one bright day | A |
| In the long week of rain | B |
| Though all its splendor could not chase away | A |
| The omnipresent pain | B |
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| The lovely town was white with apple blooms | C |
| And the great elms o'erhead | A |
| Dark shadows wove on their aerial looms | C |
| Shot through with golden thread | A |
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| Across the meadows by the gray old manse | C |
| The historic river flowed | A |
| I was as one who wanders in a trance | C |
| Unconscious of his road | A |
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| The faces of familiar friends seemed strange | D |
| Their voices I could hear | E |
| And yet the words they uttered seemed to change | D |
| Their meaning to my ear | E |
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| For the one face I looked for was not there | F |
| The one low voice was mute | A |
| Only an unseen presence filled the air | F |
| And baffled my pursuit | A |
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| Now I look back and meadow manse and stream | G |
| Dimly my thought defines | C |
| I only see a dream within a dream | G |
| The hill top hearsed with pines | C |
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| I only hear above his place of rest | A |
| Their tender undertone | H |
| The infinite longings of a troubled breast | A |
| The voice so like his own | H |
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| There in seclusion and remote from men | I |
| The wizard hand lies cold | A |
| Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen | I |
| And left the tale half told | A |
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| Ah who shall lift that wand of magic power | J |
| And the lost clew regain | B |
| The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower | J |
| Unfinished must remain | B |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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