Santa Filomena. (birds Of Passage. Flight The First) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJK LLMM NNOO LLPP QQRR SSTT UVWWWhene'er a noble deed is wrought | A |
Whene'er is spoken a noble thought | A |
Our hearts in glad surprise | B |
To higher levels rise | B |
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The tidal wave of deeper souls | C |
Into our inmost being rolls | C |
And lifts us unawares | D |
Out of all meaner cares | D |
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Honor to those whose words or deeds | E |
Thus help us in our daily needs | E |
And by their overflow | F |
Raise us from what is low | F |
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Thus thought I as by night I read | G |
Of the great army of the dead | G |
The trenches cold and damp | H |
The starved and frozen camp | H |
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The wounded from the battle plain | I |
In dreary hospitals of pain | I |
The cheerless corridors | J |
The cold and stony floors | K |
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Lo in that house of misery | L |
A lady with a lamp I see | L |
Pass through the glimmering gloom | M |
And flit from room to room | M |
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And slow as in a dream of bliss | N |
The speechless sufferer turns to kiss | N |
Her shadow as it falls | O |
Upon the darkening walls | O |
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As if a door in heaven should be | L |
Opened and then closed suddenly | L |
The vision came and went | P |
The light shone and was spent | P |
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On England's annals through the long | Q |
Hereafter of her speech and song | Q |
That light its rays shall cast | R |
From portals of the past | R |
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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand | S |
In the great history of the land | S |
A noble type of good | T |
Heroic womanhood | T |
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Nor even shall be wanting here | U |
The palm the lily and the spear | V |
The symbols that of yore | W |
Saint Filomena bore | W |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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