Weariness. (birds Of Passage. Flight The Second) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKAAKO little feet that such long years | A |
Must wander on through hopes and fears | A |
Must ache and bleed beneath your load | B |
I nearer to the wayside inn | C |
Where toil shall cease and rest begin | C |
Am weary thinking of your road | B |
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O little hands that weak or strong | D |
Have still to serve or rule so long | D |
Have still so long to give or ask | E |
I who so much with book and pen | F |
Have toiled among my fellow men | F |
Am weary thinking of your task | E |
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O little hearts that throb and beat | G |
With such impatient feverish heat | G |
Such limitless and strong desires | H |
Mine that so long has glowed and burned | I |
With passions into ashes turned | I |
Now covers and conceals its fires | H |
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O little souls as pure and white | J |
And crystalline as rays of light | J |
Direct from heaven their source divine | K |
Refracted through the mist of years | A |
How red my setting sun appears | A |
How lurid looks this soul of mine | K |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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