A Passing Hail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IJKL MMNN OOPP NNQQ AABB| Let us rest ourselves a bit | A |
| Worry wave your hand to it | A |
| Kiss your finger tips and smile | B |
| It farewell a little while | B |
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| Weary of the weary way | C |
| We have come from Yesterday | C |
| Let us fret not instead | D |
| Of the wary way ahead | D |
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| Let us pause and catch our breath | E |
| On the hither side of death | E |
| While we see the tender shoots | F |
| Of the grasses not the roots | F |
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| While we yet look down not up | G |
| To seek out the buttercup | G |
| And the daisy where they wave | H |
| O'er the green home of the grave | H |
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| Let us launch us smoothly on | I |
| The soft billows of the lawn | J |
| And drift out across the main | K |
| Of our childish dreams again | L |
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| Voyage off beneath the trees | M |
| O'er the field's enchanted seas | M |
| Where the lilies are our sails | N |
| And our sea gulls nightingales | N |
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| Where no wilder storm shall beat | O |
| Than the wind that waves the wheat | O |
| And no tempest burst above | P |
| The old laughs we used to love | P |
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| Lose all troubles gain release | N |
| Languor and exceeding peace | N |
| Cruising idly o'er the vast | Q |
| Calm mid ocean of the Past | Q |
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| Let us rest ourselves a bit | A |
| Worry Wave your hand to it | A |
| Kiss your finger tips and smile | B |
| It fare well a little while | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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