Alienation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD EEFFGG HHIIHH JJK BB HH| For the first time since he was born | A |
| Her son her rose without a thorn | A |
| They are at variance they who were | B |
| Always such closest friends and dear | C |
| Another face is in his dreams | D |
| Under the sunbeams and moonbeams | D |
| - | |
| In his changed glances she discovers | E |
| Something some chill between two lovers | E |
| Something of fear and oh it hurts | F |
| But shall not Love have its deserts | F |
| And win forgiveness though she still | G |
| Sets her poor will against his will | G |
| - | |
| For all day long the battle calls | H |
| And in the quiet evenfalls | H |
| And in the night which else is dumb | I |
| He hears the bugle and the drum | I |
| And the wild longing in him stirs | H |
| For the fierce battle He's not hers | H |
| - | |
| But she her hidden way will keep | J |
| Striving against him even in sleep | J |
| Praying against him loud and low | K |
| 'Pity me so he may not go ' | - |
| Calling on Heaven that it conspire | B |
| Against him and his heart's desire | B |
| - | |
| God pity mothers when their sons | H |
| Grow cold that were their little ones | H |
Katharine Tynan
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