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 UVWW

Whene'er a noble deed is wroughtA
Whene'er is spoken a noble thoughtA
Our hearts in glad surpriseB
To higher levels riseB
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The tidal wave of deeper soulsC
Into our inmost being rollsC
And lifts us unawaresD
Out of all meaner caresD
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Honor to those whose words or deedsE
Thus help us in our daily needsE
And by their overflowF
Raise us from what is lowF
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Thus thought I as by night I readG
Of the great army of the deadG
The trenches cold and dampH
The starved and frozen campH
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The wounded from the battle plainI
In dreary hospitals of painI
The cheerless corridorsJ
The cold and stony floorsK
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Lo in that house of miseryL
A lady with a lamp I seeL
Pass through the glimmering gloomM
And flit from room to roomM
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And slow as in a dream of blissN
The speechless sufferer turns to kissN
Her shadow as it fallsO
Upon the darkening wallsO
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As if a door in heaven should beL
Opened and then closed suddenlyL
The vision came and wentP
The light shone and was spentP
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On England's annals through the longQ
Hereafter of her speech and songQ
That light its rays shall castR
From portals of the pastR
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A Lady with a Lamp shall standS
In the great history of the landS
A noble type of goodT
Heroic womanhoodT
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Nor even shall be wanting hereU
The palm the lily and the spearV
The symbols that of yoreW
Saint Filomena boreW

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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