The Thorn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIHJ KLMN OPQR SBSB TUTU UVUV BWBW XSXS YVZV PURU A2UA2U BBBB UBUB ULUN B2OB2Q C2B2C2B2| The days of these two years like busy ants | A |
| Have gone confused and happy and distressed | B |
| Rich yet sad with aching wants | C |
| Crowded yet lonely and unblessed | B |
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| I stare back as they vanish in a swarm | D |
| Seeming how purposeless how mean and vain | E |
| Till creeping joy and brief alarm | F |
| Are gone and prick me not again | G |
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| The days are gone yet still this heart of fire | H |
| Smouldering smoulders on with ancient love | I |
| And the red embers of desire | H |
| I would not oh nor dare remove | J |
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| Where is the bosom my head rested on | K |
| The arms that caught my boy's head the soft kiss | L |
| Where is the light of your eyes gone | M |
| For now I know what darkness is | N |
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| It is the loneliness the loneliness | O |
| Since she that brought me here has left me here | P |
| With the sharp need of her to press | Q |
| Sudden upon the nerve of fear | R |
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| It is the loneliness that wounds me still | S |
| Shut from the generations that are past | B |
| That with their blood my warm veins fill | S |
| And on my spirit their spirit cast | B |
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| That haunt me so and yet how strangely keep | T |
| Beyond communion alone alone | U |
| Like that huge ancient hill asleep | T |
| With to day's noisy winds o'erblown | U |
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| There from the hill is sprung a single thorn | U |
| Wind twisted straining from the earth to the skies | V |
| Thin branches pleading with wild morn | U |
| And root that pressed in darkness lies | V |
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| From the unknown of earth and heaven are brought | B |
| Her strength her weakness death and bravest life | W |
| Shadow and light and wind have wrought | B |
| Beauty from change calm out of strife | W |
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| That tree upon the unchanging hill am I | X |
| Alone upon the dark unwhispering hill | S |
| You in the stirless cold past lie | X |
| But I ache warm and lonely still | S |
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| There's not a storm tossing among my boughs | Y |
| Nor gentle air drawn under quiet skies | V |
| There's not an idle cloud that flows | Z |
| Across the mind nor bird that cries | V |
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| But says if I have eyes or ears to hear | P |
| You in this mortal being are alone | U |
| And morn and noon and night stars clear | R |
| Repeat Alone alone alone | U |
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| Yet the tree in wild storm her dark boughs shakes | A2 |
| Thrusting her roots in the earth her arms to heaven | U |
| Fresh washed with dew when morning breaks | A2 |
| And new light back to the light is given | U |
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| Is it that I that loved have yet forgot | B |
| Is it that I that looked have yet been blind | B |
| Longing have yet remembered not | B |
| Nor heard you whispering in my mind | B |
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| But at a word you are nearer now than when | U |
| We sat and spoke or merely looked and thought | B |
| Knowing all speech superfluous then | U |
| Since what we needed silence brought | B |
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| And your warm bosom my head rested on | U |
| The arms that caught my boy's head the soft kiss | L |
| The brown grave eyes that gently shone | U |
| Are here again and brightness is | N |
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| Two years have gone but nearer now are you | B2 |
| Being dearer now and this false loneliness | O |
| Is but a dream that cloudlike grew | B2 |
| Then growing cloudlike less and less | Q |
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| Passes away leaving me like the tree | C2 |
| Bright with the sun and wind and lingering dew | B2 |
| Homely is all the world for me | C2 |
| Being sweeter with the sense of you | B2 |
John Freeman
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