Weariness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKAAK| O 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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