Seven Times Five. Widowhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GGGG FHFH GBGB FHFH HHHH| I sleep and rest my heart makes moan | A |
| Before I am well awake | B |
| Let me bleed O let me alone | A |
| Since I must not break | B |
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| For children wake though fathers sleep | C |
| With a stone at foot and at head | D |
| O sleepless God forever keep | C |
| Keep both living and dead | D |
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| I lift mine eyes and what to see | E |
| But a world happy and fair | F |
| I have not wished it to mourn with me | E |
| Comfort is not there | F |
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| O what anear but golden brooms | G |
| And a waste of reedy rills | G |
| O what afar but the fine glooms | G |
| On the rare blue hills | G |
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| I shall not die but live forlore | F |
| How bitter it is to part | H |
| O to meet thee my love once more | F |
| O my heart my heart | H |
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| No more to hear no more to see | G |
| O that an echo might wake | B |
| And waft one note of thy psalm to me | G |
| Ere my heart strings break | B |
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| I should know it how faint soe'er | F |
| And with angel voices blent | H |
| O once to feel thy spirit anear | F |
| I could be content | H |
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| Or once between the gates of gold | H |
| While an angel entering trod | H |
| But once thee sitting to behold | H |
| On the hills of God | H |
Jean Ingelow
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