To Sorrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFF G BHBHIJIJKLKLL G MNNNOPOQNRNSR J TUVUWJWJJXJXJO Dark Eyed goddess of the marble brow | A |
Whose look is silence and whose touch is night | B |
Who walkest lonely through the world O thou | A |
Who sittest lonely with Life's blown out light | B |
Who in the hollow hours of night's noon | C |
Criest like some lost child | D |
Whose anguish fevered eyeballs seek the moon | C |
To cool their pulses wild | D |
Thou who dost bend to kiss Joy's sister cheek | E |
Turning its rose to alabaster yea | F |
Thou who art terrible and mad and meek | E |
Why in my heart art thou enshrined to day | F |
O Sorrow say O say | F |
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II | G |
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Now Spring is here and all the world is white | B |
I will go forth and where the forest robes | H |
Itself in green and every hill and height | B |
Crowns its fair head with blossoms spirit globes | H |
Of hyacinth and crocus dashed with dew | I |
I will forget my grief | J |
And thee O Sorrow gazing on the blue | I |
Beneath a last year's leaf | J |
Of some brief violet the south wind woos | K |
Or bluet whence the west wind raked the snow | L |
The baby eyes of love the darling hues | K |
Of happiness that thou canst never know | L |
O child of pain and woe | L |
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III | G |
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On some hoar upland sweet with clustered thorns | M |
Hard by a river's windy white of waves | N |
I shall sit down with Spring whose eyes are morns | N |
Of light whose cheeks the rose of health enslaves | N |
And so forget thee braiding in her hair | O |
The snowdrop tipped with green | P |
The cool eyed primrose and the trillium fair | O |
And moony celandine | Q |
Contented so to lie within her arms | N |
Forgetting all the sear and sad and wan | R |
Remembering love alone who o'er earth's storms | N |
High on the mountains of perpetual dawn | S |
Leads the glad hours on | R |
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IV | J |
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Or in the peace that follows storm when Even | T |
Within the west stands dreaming lone and far | U |
Clad on with green and silver and the Heaven | V |
Is brightly brooched with one gold glittering star | U |
I will lie down beside some mountain lake | W |
'Round which the tall pines sigh | J |
And breathing musk of rain from boughs that shake | W |
Storm balsam from on high | J |
Make friends of Dream and Contemplation high | J |
And Music listening to the mocking bird | X |
Who through the hush sends its melodious cry | J |
And so forget a while that other word | X |
That all loved things must die | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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