All Alone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD A EFEFDD A GHGHDD I JFJFDD I KLKLDD I MNONDD I EIEIDD I PCPCDD N QRQRDD N NSNSDD N TUTUDD N USUSDD N NCNCDD I SNSNDD I VNGNDD I WXWXDD I SUSUDD I NYNYDD N NCNCDD N DSDSDD N NSNSDD N FCFCDD N NDNDDD I NSNSDD S DSDSDD| I | A |
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| Ah wherefore by the Church yard side | B |
| Poor little LORN ONE dost thou stray | C |
| Thy wavy locks but thinly hide | B |
| The tears that dim thy blue eye's ray | C |
| And wherefore dost thou sigh and moan | D |
| And weep that thou art left alone | D |
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| II | A |
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| Thou art not left alone poor boy | E |
| The Trav'ller stops to hear thy tale | F |
| No heart so hard would thee annoy | E |
| For tho' thy mother's cheek is pale | F |
| And withers under yon grave stone | D |
| Thou art not Urchin left alone | D |
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| III | A |
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| I know thee well thy yellow hair | G |
| In silky waves I oft have seen | H |
| Thy dimpled face so fresh and fair | G |
| Thy roguish smile thy playful mien | H |
| Were all to me poor Orphan known | D |
| Ere Fate had left thee all alone | D |
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| IV | I |
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| Thy russet coat is scant and torn | J |
| Thy cheek is now grown deathly pale | F |
| Thy eyes are dim thy looks forlorn | J |
| And bare thy bosom meets the gale | F |
| And oft I hear thee deeply groan | D |
| That thou poor boy art left alone | D |
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| V | I |
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| Thy naked feet are wounded sore | K |
| With thorns that cross thy daily road | L |
| The winter winds around thee roar | K |
| The church yard is thy bleak abode | L |
| Thy pillow now a cold grave stone | D |
| And there thou lov'st to grieve alone | D |
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| VI | I |
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| The rain has drench'd thee all night long | M |
| The nipping frost thy bosom froze | N |
| And still the yewtree shades among | O |
| I heard thee sigh thy artless woes | N |
| I heard thee till the day star shone | D |
| In darkness weep and weep alone | D |
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| VII | I |
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| Oft have I seen thee little boy | E |
| Upon thy lovely mother's knee | I |
| For when she liv'd thou wert her joy | E |
| Though now a mourner thou must be | I |
| For she lies low where yon grave stone | D |
| Proclaims that thou art left alone | D |
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| VIII | I |
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| Weep weep no more on yonder hill | P |
| The village bells are ringing gay | C |
| The merry reed and brawling rill | P |
| Call thee to rustic sports away | C |
| Then wherefore weep and sigh and moan | D |
| A truant from the throng alone | D |
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| IX | N |
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| I cannot the green hill ascend | Q |
| I cannot pace the upland mead | R |
| I cannot in the vale attend | Q |
| To hear the merry sounding reed | R |
| For all is still beneath yon stone | D |
| Where my poor mother's left alone | D |
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| X | N |
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| I cannot gather gaudy flowers | N |
| To dress the scene of revels loud | S |
| I cannot pass the ev'ning hours | N |
| Among the noisy village croud | S |
| For all in darkness and alone | D |
| My mother sleeps beneath yon stone | D |
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| XI | N |
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| See how the stars begin to gleam | T |
| The sheep dog barks 'tis time to go | U |
| The night fly hums the moonlight beam | T |
| Peeps through the yew tree's shadowy row | U |
| It falls upon the white grave stone | D |
| Where my dear mother sleeps alone | D |
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| XII | N |
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| O stay me not for I must go | U |
| The upland path in haste to tread | S |
| For there the pale primroses grow | U |
| They grow to dress my mother's bed | S |
| They must ere peep of day be strown | D |
| Where she lies mould'ring all alone | D |
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| XIII | N |
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| My father o'er the stormy sea | N |
| To distant lands was borne away | C |
| And still my mother stay'd with me | N |
| And wept by night and toil'd by day | C |
| And shall I ever quit the stone | D |
| Where she is left to sleep alone | D |
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| XIV | I |
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| My father died and still I found | S |
| My mother fond and kind to me | N |
| I felt her breast with rapture bound | S |
| When first I prattled on her knee | N |
| And then she blest my infant tone | D |
| And little thought of yon grave stone | D |
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| XV | I |
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| No more her gentle voice I hear | V |
| No more her smile of fondness see | N |
| Then wonder not I shed the tear | G |
| She would have DIED to follow me | N |
| And yet she sleeps beneath yon stone | D |
| And I STILL LIVE to weep alone | D |
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| XVI | I |
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| The playful kid she lov'd so well | W |
| From yon high clift was seen to fall | X |
| I heard afar his tink'ling bell | W |
| Which seem'd in vain for aid to call | X |
| I heard the harmless suff'rer moan | D |
| And grieved that he was left alone | D |
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| XVII | I |
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| Our faithful dog grew mad and died | S |
| The lightning smote our cottage low | U |
| We had no resting place beside | S |
| And knew not whither we should go | U |
| For we were poor and hearts of stone | D |
| Will never throb at mis'ry's groan | D |
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| XVIII | I |
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| My mother still surviv'd for me | N |
| She led me to the mountain's brow | Y |
| She watch'd me while at yonder tree | N |
| I sat and wove the ozier bough | Y |
| And oft she cried fear not MINE OWN | D |
| Thou shalt not BOY be left ALONE | D |
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| XXI | N |
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| The blast blew strong the torrent rose | N |
| And bore our shatter'd cot away | C |
| And where the clear brook swiftly flows | N |
| Upon the turf at dawn of day | C |
| When bright the sun's full lustre shone | D |
| I wander'd FRIENDLESS and ALONE | D |
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| XX | N |
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| Thou art not boy for I have seen | D |
| Thy tiny footsteps print the dew | S |
| And while the morning sky serene | D |
| Spread o'er the hill a yellow hue | S |
| I heard thy sad and plaintive moan | D |
| Beside the cold sepulchral stone | D |
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| XXI | N |
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| And when the summer noontide hours | N |
| With scorching rays the landscape spread | S |
| I mark'd thee weaving fragrant flow'rs | N |
| To deck thy mother's silent bed | S |
| Nor at the church yard's simple stone | D |
| Wert thou poor Urchin left alone | D |
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| XXII | N |
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| I follow'd thee along the dale | F |
| And up the woodland's shad'wy way | C |
| I heard thee tell thy mournful tale | F |
| As slowly sunk the star of day | C |
| Nor when its twinkling light had flown | D |
| Wert thou a wand'rer all alone | D |
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| XXIII | N |
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| O yes I was and still shall be | N |
| A wand'rer mourning and forlorn | D |
| For what is all the world to me | N |
| What are the dews and buds of morn | D |
| Since she who left me sad alone | D |
| In darkness sleeps beneath yon stone | D |
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| XXIV | I |
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| No brother's tear shall fall for me | N |
| For I no brother ever knew | S |
| No friend shall weep my destiny | N |
| For friends are scarce and tears are few | S |
| None do I see save on this stone | D |
| Where I will stay and weep alone | D |
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| XXV | S |
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| My Father never will return | D |
| He rests beneath the sea green wave | S |
| I have no kindred left to mourn | D |
| When I am hid in yonder grave | S |
| Not one to dress with flow'rs the stone | D |
| Then surely I AM LEFT ALONE | D |
Mary Darby Robinson
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