Lagrimas. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFFE GHHG IBBI BJJB BEED| God send me tears | A |
| Loose the fierce band that binds my tired brain | B |
| Give me the melting heart of other years | C |
| And let me weep again | D |
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| Before me pass | E |
| The shapes of things inexorably true | F |
| Gone is the sparkle of transforming dew | F |
| From every blade of grass | E |
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| In life's high noon | G |
| Aimless I stand my promised task undone | H |
| And raise my hot eyes to the angry sun | H |
| That will go down too soon | G |
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| Turned into gall | I |
| Are the sweet joys of childhood's sunny reign | B |
| And memory is a torture love a chain | B |
| That binds my life in thrall | I |
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| And childhood's pain | B |
| Could to me now the purest rapture yield | J |
| I pray for tears as in his parching field | J |
| The husbandman for rain | B |
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| We pray in vain | B |
| The sullen sky flings down its blaze of brass | E |
| The joys of life all scorched and withering pass | E |
| I shall not weep again | D |
John Milton Hay
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