We To Sigh Instead Of Sing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDEDADAD FGFGDHDH| Rain and Rain and rain and rain | A |
| Yesterday we muttered | B |
| Grimly as the grim refrain | A |
| That the thunders uttered | B |
| All the heavens under cloud | C |
| All the sunshine sleeping | D |
| All the grasses limply bowed | C |
| With their weight of weeping | D |
| - | |
| Sigh and sigh and sigh and sigh | E |
| Never end of sighing | D |
| Rain and rain for our reply | E |
| Hopes half drowned and dying | D |
| Peering through the window pane | A |
| Naught but endless raining | D |
| Endless sighing and as vain | A |
| Endlessly conmplaining | D |
| - | |
| Shine and shine and shine and shine | F |
| Ah to day the splendor | G |
| All this glory yours and mine | F |
| God but God is tender | G |
| We to sigh instead of sing | D |
| Yesterday in sorrow | H |
| While the lord was fashioning | D |
| This for our To morrow | H |
James Whitcomb Riley
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