To Sorrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFF G BHBHIJIJKLKLL G MNNNOPOQNRNSR J TUVUWJWJJXJXJ

O Dark Eyed goddess of the marble browA
Whose look is silence and whose touch is nightB
Who walkest lonely through the world O thouA
Who sittest lonely with Life's blown out lightB
Who in the hollow hours of night's noonC
Criest like some lost childD
Whose anguish fevered eyeballs seek the moonC
To cool their pulses wildD
Thou who dost bend to kiss Joy's sister cheekE
Turning its rose to alabaster yeaF
Thou who art terrible and mad and meekE
Why in my heart art thou enshrined to dayF
O Sorrow say O sayF
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Now Spring is here and all the world is whiteB
I will go forth and where the forest robesH
Itself in green and every hill and heightB
Crowns its fair head with blossoms spirit globesH
Of hyacinth and crocus dashed with dewI
I will forget my griefJ
And thee O Sorrow gazing on the blueI
Beneath a last year's leafJ
Of some brief violet the south wind woosK
Or bluet whence the west wind raked the snowL
The baby eyes of love the darling huesK
Of happiness that thou canst never knowL
O child of pain and woeL
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IIIG
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On some hoar upland sweet with clustered thornsM
Hard by a river's windy white of wavesN
I shall sit down with Spring whose eyes are mornsN
Of light whose cheeks the rose of health enslavesN
And so forget thee braiding in her hairO
The snowdrop tipped with greenP
The cool eyed primrose and the trillium fairO
And moony celandineQ
Contented so to lie within her armsN
Forgetting all the sear and sad and wanR
Remembering love alone who o'er earth's stormsN
High on the mountains of perpetual dawnS
Leads the glad hours onR
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IVJ
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Or in the peace that follows storm when EvenT
Within the west stands dreaming lone and farU
Clad on with green and silver and the HeavenV
Is brightly brooched with one gold glittering starU
I will lie down beside some mountain lakeW
'Round which the tall pines sighJ
And breathing musk of rain from boughs that shakeW
Storm balsam from on highJ
Make friends of Dream and Contemplation highJ
And Music listening to the mocking birdX
Who through the hush sends its melodious cryJ
And so forget a while that other wordX
That all loved things must dieJ

Madison Julius Cawein



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