Solitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MNMNII| Had I but lived when music loving Pan | A |
| Still played his flute amid the whispering reeds | B |
| When through Arcadian groves the dryads ran | A |
| And symbolizing well man's earlier creeds | B |
| A host of sculptured forms divinely fair | C |
| Portrayed the gods and led men's thoughts to prayer | C |
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| I would have sought some beautiful retreat | D |
| Remote from cities and the din of men | E |
| Some tranquil shore where lake and forest meet | D |
| By limpid stream or flower lit sylvan glen | E |
| And would have reared where none could e'er intrude | F |
| A shrine to thee O precious Solitude | F |
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| How hath a heedless world neglected thee | G |
| Thou coy divinity too shy and proud | H |
| To sue for followers from those who see | G |
| Attraction merely in the strenuous crowd | H |
| For only those can know thee as thou art | I |
| Who wisely seek and study thee apart | I |
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| No rapt enthusiast or mystic sage | J |
| No Asian founder of a faith divine | K |
| No bard or writer of inspired page | J |
| Hath ever failed to worship at thy shrine | K |
| O Nourisher of steadfast self control | L |
| Of noble thoughts of loftiness of soul | L |
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| Yet no continuous homage dost thou crave | M |
| No anchorite's seclusion wouldst thou ask | N |
| Thou lov'st no misanthrope or sullen slave | M |
| But only those who faithful to life's task | N |
| Must yet at times look upward from the clod | I |
| And seek through thee acquaintanceship with God | I |
John L. Stoddard
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