Dora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDCEE DDFFGG HHIIJJ DDKK LLLLJJL IIMIMMNNNNNN NNNN| A waxing moon that crescent yet | A |
| In all its silver beauty set | A |
| And rose no more in the lonesome night | B |
| To shed full orbed its longed for light | B |
| Then was it dark on wold and lea | C |
| In home in heart the hours were drear | D |
| Father and mother could no light see | C |
| And the hearts trembled and there was fear | D |
| So on the mount Christ's chosen three | C |
| Unware that glory it did shroud | E |
| Feared when they entered into the cloud | E |
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| She was the best part of love's fair | D |
| Adornment life's God given care | D |
| As if He bade them guard His own | F |
| Who should be soon anear His throne | F |
| Dutiful happy and who say | G |
| When childhood smiles itself away | G |
| 'More fair than morn shall prove the day ' | - |
| Sweet souls so nigh to God that rest | H |
| How shall be bettering of your best | H |
| That promise heaven alone shall view | I |
| That hope can ne'er with us come true | I |
| That prophecy life hath not skill | J |
| No nor time leave that it fulfil | J |
| - | |
| There is but heaven for childhood never | D |
| Can yield the all it meant for ever | D |
| Or is there earth must wane to less | K |
| What dawned so close by perfectness | K |
| - | |
| How guileless sweet by gift divine | L |
| How beautiful dear child was thine | L |
| Spared all their grief of thee bereaven | L |
| Winner who had not greatly striven | L |
| Hurts of sin shall not thee soil | J |
| Carking care thy beauty spoil | J |
| So early blest so young forgiven | L |
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| Among the meadows fresh to view | I |
| And in the woodland ways she grew | I |
| On either side a hand to hold | M |
| Nor the world's worst of evil knew | I |
| Nor rued its miseries manifold | M |
| Nor made discovery of its cold | M |
| What more like one with morn content | N |
| Or of the morrow diffident | N |
| Unconscious beautiful she stood | N |
| Calm in young stainless maidenhood | N |
| Then with the last steps childhood trod | N |
| Took up her fifteen years to God | N |
| - | |
| Farewell sweet hope not long to last | N |
| All life is better for thy past | N |
| Farewell till love with sorrow meet | N |
| To learn that tears are obsolete | N |
Jean Ingelow
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