The Seaside And The Fireside : Dedication Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BBBB DEDE EEEE FGFG HBHB DBDB IJIJ BBBB KEKE LMLN| As one who walking in the twilight gloom | A |
| Hears round about him voices as it darkens | B |
| And seeing not the forms from which they come | C |
| Pauses from time to time and turns and hearkens | B |
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| So walking here in twilight O my friends | B |
| I hear your voices softened by the distance | B |
| And pause and turn to listen as each sends | B |
| His words of friendship comfort and assistance | B |
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| If any thought of mine or sung or told | D |
| Has ever given delight or consolation | E |
| Ye have repaid me back a thousand fold | D |
| By every friendly sign and salutation | E |
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| Thanks for the sympathies that ye have shown | E |
| Thanks for each kindly word each silent token | E |
| That teaches me when seeming most alone | E |
| Friends are around us though no word be spoken | E |
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| Kind messages that pass from land to land | F |
| Kind letters that betray the heart's deep history | G |
| In which we feel the pressure of a hand | F |
| One touch of fire and all the rest is mystery | G |
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| The pleasant books that silently among | H |
| Our household treasures take familiar places | B |
| And are to us as if a living tongue | H |
| Spice from the printed leaves or pictured faces | B |
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| Perhaps on earth I never shall behold | D |
| With eye of sense your outward form and semblance | B |
| Therefore to me ye never will grow old | D |
| But live forever young in my remembrance | B |
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| Never grow old nor change nor pass away | I |
| Your gentle voices will flow on forever | J |
| When life grows bare and tarnished with decay | I |
| As through a leafless landscape flows a river | J |
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| Not chance of birth or place has made us friends | B |
| Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations | B |
| But the endeavor for the selfsame ends | B |
| With the same hopes and fears and aspirations | B |
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| Therefore I hope to join your seaside walk | K |
| Saddened and mostly silent with emotion | E |
| Not interrupting with intrusive talk | K |
| The grand majestic symphonies of ocean | E |
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| Therefore I hope as no unwelcome guest | L |
| At your warm fireside when the lamps are lighted | M |
| To have my place reserved among the rest | L |
| Nor stand as one unsought and uninvited | N |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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