Envoy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHEHE IJIJKDLE MNMNODOE LPLPQDQE| Many pleasures of youth have been buoyantly sung | A |
| And borne on the winds of delight may they beat | B |
| With their palpitant wings at the hearts of the Young | A |
| And in bosoms of Age find as warm a retreat | B |
| Yet sweetest of all of the musical throng | C |
| Though least of the numbers that upward aspire | D |
| Is the one rising now into wavering song | C |
| As I sit in the silence and gaze in the fire | E |
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| 'Tis a Winter long dead that beleaguers my door | F |
| And muffles his steps in the snows of the past | G |
| And I see in the embers I'm dreaming before | F |
| Lost faces of love as they looked on me last | G |
| The round laughing eyes of the desk mate of old | H |
| Gleam out for a moment with truant desire | E |
| Then fade and are lost in a City of Gold | H |
| As I sit in the silence and gaze in the fire | E |
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| And then comes the face peering back in my own | I |
| Of a shy little girl with her lids drooping low | J |
| As she faltering tells in a far away tone | I |
| The ghost of a story of long long ago | J |
| Then her dewy blue eyes they are lifted again | K |
| But I see their glad light slowly fail and expire | D |
| As I reach and cry to her in vain all in vain | L |
| As I sit in the silence and gaze in the fire | E |
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| Then the face of a Mother looks back through the mist | M |
| Of tears that are welling and lucent with light | N |
| I see the dear smile of the lips I have kissed | M |
| As she knelt by my cradle at morning and night | N |
| And my arms are outheld with a yearning too wild | O |
| For any but God in His love to inspire | D |
| As she pleads at the foot of His throne for her child | O |
| As I sit in the silence and gaze in the fire | E |
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| O pathos of rapture O glorious pain | L |
| My heart is a blossom of joy over run | P |
| With a shower of tears as a lily with rain | L |
| That weeps in the shadow and laughs in the sun | P |
| The blight of the frost may descend on the tree | Q |
| And the leaf and the flower may fall and expire | D |
| But ever and ever love blossoms for me | Q |
| As I sit in the silence and gaze in the fire | E |
James Whitcomb Riley
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