Over The Eyes Of Gladness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFG HDDD IAAA JKIK DLML| 'The voice of One hath spoken | A |
| And the bended reed is bruised | B |
| The golden bowl is broken | A |
| And the silver cord is loosed ' | C |
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| Over the eyes of gladness | D |
| The lids of sorrow fall | E |
| And the light of mirth is darkened | F |
| Under the funeral pall | G |
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| The hearts that throbbed with rapture | H |
| In dreams of the future years | D |
| Are wakened from their slumbers | D |
| And their visions drowned in tears | D |
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| Two buds on the bough in the morning | I |
| Twin buds in the smiling sun | A |
| But the frost of death has fallen | A |
| And blighted the bloom of one | A |
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| One leaf of life still folded | J |
| Has fallen from the stem | K |
| Leaving the symbol teaching | I |
| There still are two of them | K |
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| For though through Time's gradations | D |
| The LIVING bud may burst | L |
| The WITHERED one is gathered | M |
| And blooms in Heaven first | L |
James Whitcomb Riley
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