Furness Abbey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC HH IICC| I WISH for the days of the olden time | A |
| When the hours were told by the abbey chime | A |
| When the glorious stars looked down through the midnigh dim | B |
| Like approving saints on the choir's sweet hymn | B |
| I think of the days we are living now | C |
| And I sigh for those of the veil and the vow | C |
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| I would be content alone to dwell | D |
| Where the ivy shut out the sun from my cell | D |
| With the death's head at my side and the missal on my knee | E |
| Praying to that heaven which was opening to me | E |
| Fevered and vain are the days I lead now | C |
| And I sigh for those of the veil and the vow | C |
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| Silken broidery no more would I wear | F |
| Nor golden combs in my golden hair | F |
| I wore them but for one and in vain they were worn | G |
| My robe should be of serge my crown of the thorn | G |
| 'Tis a cold false world we dwell in now | C |
| And I sigh for the days of the veil and the vow | C |
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| I would that the cloister's quiet were mine | H |
| In the silent depths of some holy shrine | H |
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| I would tell my blessed beads and would weep away | I |
| From my inmost soul every stain of clay | I |
| My heart's young hopes they have left me now | C |
| And I sigh for the days of the veil and the vow | C |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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