The Solitary Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFGGHHII IJHHKKLM HHIINOPP JJQQHHRR| The terrors of night have fallen on me | A |
| The shadow of forms no longer I see | A |
| Eyes that have lingered on objects of light | B |
| Are now ever closed by day and by night | B |
| As time passes on I shed bitter tears | C |
| Wearily waiting these many long years | D |
| Oftentimes waking from dreaming to find | E |
| Nothing but gloom I am helpless and blind | E |
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| Of all earthly joys I am nearly bereft | F |
| No pleasure of friends alone I am left | F |
| Kind hearts there are some though many alas | G |
| Send a curious gaze toward me as they pass | G |
| One visitor daily a small ray of sun | H |
| Just crossing my face it gladly doth run | H |
| Bringing me news of the weather and time | I |
| And memories sweet of my own sunny clime | I |
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| They've taken my children away from their home | I |
| For care to them mother love is unknown | J |
| Their smiles and caresses to strangers are given | H |
| Alone in despair my fond heart is riven | H |
| O tell me kind angels shall I ever recover | K |
| To care for my children and heart broken mother | K |
| While sadly I'm thinking of joys that have passed | L |
| For days like my childhood in mercy I ask | M |
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| How strange seems the quiet how foreign to one | H |
| Who reveled in beauty in pleasure and fun | H |
| As healthy and happy and merry as May | I |
| School books in hand I would hasten away | I |
| But listen What noises are those that I hear | N |
| In the silence strange fancies awaken my fear | O |
| And terrible phantoms of lunatics try | P |
| To glare o'er my couch and stifle my cry | P |
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| Welcome O Death do not leave me alone | J |
| The future's unkind and hopes are all flown | J |
| In pain and in anguish my sorrow untold | Q |
| In age most a child yet in trouble grown old | Q |
| But God in His mercy one bright hope has given | H |
| Saviour to love and rest in dear Heaven | H |
| There beautiful music and many things fair | R |
| While voices of loved ones with song fill the air | R |
Mary Alice Walton
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