To Sorrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFF G BHBHIJIJKLKLL G MNNNOPOQNRNSR J TUVUWJWJJXJXJ| O 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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