A Word Of Good Cheer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE AFAFGHGH IJIJDKDK LJLJMCMC GNGNDODO PQPQRSRT GUG VWXW DYDYDZDZ| WHY thus mourn o'er star hopes faded | A |
| They are only from thy ken | B |
| By a passing vapour shaded | C |
| And will soon appear again | B |
| Up and guard thee like a warrior | D |
| Up and make the present thine | E |
| Trust me every doubt's a barrier | D |
| To Life's heritage divine | E |
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| See yon kingly soul attended | A |
| By the dulcet tones of love | F |
| An immortal here descended | A |
| But to lift our eyes above | F |
| Dark as be thy lot and cruel | G |
| He has known as dire a woe | H |
| Bright as be his prize a jewel | G |
| Brighter still for thee may glow | H |
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| Not the Cytherean truly | I |
| Vain its pursuit and unwise | J |
| But the joy Uranian duly | I |
| Seek we that and rich the prize | J |
| But for that be our endeavour | D |
| And afar our doubt and fear | K |
| We shall then be losers never | D |
| Tho' but losers we appear | K |
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| Lose we may the husk and perish | L |
| What the outer senses prize | J |
| But no real joy we cherish | L |
| Ever from us fades or flies | J |
| Hid it may be from the spirit | M |
| Only for awhile 'tis hid | C |
| And one day will meed our merit | M |
| With a joy to sense forbid | C |
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| From our bosom the infernal | G |
| All that's mean and low and base | N |
| Every wish and longing carnal | G |
| Chase we then or seek to chase | N |
| Clearer to us then and clearer | D |
| Would Life's complex riddle seem | O |
| And our Edens fled prove nearer | D |
| Than at present we may deem | O |
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| He the lord of his own passions | P |
| Peers the monarch ne'er so bold | Q |
| For his loins a girdle fashions | P |
| Richer than a girth of gold | Q |
| Not a thorn can pierce his bosom | R |
| But before the pang has flown | S |
| But becometh a bright blossom | R |
| His right royal head to crown | T |
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| 'Valour's born from self denial | G |
| Wisdom from each stern rebuke | U |
| Power from every pain and trial | G |
| That the human soul may brook ' | - |
| Sagest heroes heroic sages | V |
| So have taught since Time began | W |
| Up then earn a hero's wages | X |
| Up then up and be a man | W |
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| Up and lo to hail thee victor | D |
| Smiles will leap from every brook | Y |
| Beauty will herself impicture | D |
| On whatever thou mayst look | Y |
| Stars the blessed stars my brother | D |
| Will attend thee in the night | Z |
| And Creation's self be other | D |
| Than it seems to common sight | Z |
Joseph Skipsey
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