Santa Filomena Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJK LLMM NNOO LLPP QQRR SSTT UVWW| Whene'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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