Gladness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEFFFGHG IIHJKLMNNON JP A QQBJRSTTUUUBJJ V JW| Unto my Gladness then I cried | A |
| 'I will not be denied | A |
| Answer me now and tell me why | B |
| Thou dost not fall as a broken star | C |
| Out of the Dark where such things are | C |
| And where such bright things die | B |
| How canst thou with thy fountain dance | D |
| Shatter clear sight with radiance | E |
| How canst thou reach and soar and fling | F |
| Over my heart's dark shuddering | F |
| Unearthly lights on everything | F |
| What dost thou see What dost thou know ' | G |
| My Gladness said to me bowed below | H |
| 'Gladness I am created so ' | G |
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| 'And dare'st thou in my mortal veins | I |
| Sing with the Spring's descending rains | I |
| While in this hour and momently | H |
| Forth of myself I look and see | J |
| Torn treasure of my heart's Desire | K |
| And human glories in the mire | L |
| That should make glad some paradise | M |
| The childhood strewn in foulest place | N |
| The girlhood plundered of its grace | N |
| The eyelids shut upon spent eyes | O |
| That never looked upon thy face | N |
| Answer me thou if answer be ' | - |
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| My Gladness said to me | J |
| 'Weep if thou wilt yea weep and doubt | P |
| I may not let the Sun go out ' | - |
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| Then to my Gladness still I cried | A |
| 'And how canst thou abide ' | - |
| Here where my listening heart must hark | Q |
| These sorrows rising from the Dark | Q |
| Where still they starve and strive and die | B |
| Who bear each heaviest penalty | J |
| Of humanhood nor grasp nor guess | R |
| The garment's hem of happiness | S |
| The spear wound throbbing in my song | T |
| It throbs more bitterly than wrong | T |
| It burns more wildly than despair | U |
| The will to share | U |
| The will to share | U |
| Little I knew the blind fold I | B |
| Joy would become like agony | J |
| Like arrows of the Sun in me | J |
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| I hold thee here I have thee now | V |
| And I am human But what art thou ' | - |
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| My Gladness answered me | J |
| 'Wayfarer wilt thou understand | W |
| Follow me on And keep my hand ' | - |
Josephine Preston Peabody
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