To Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKL MNOPQLRSDKTULVHWXLYZ DQA2LB2LC2WLD2E2F2G2 C2H2I2J2 K2L2LLM2LN2LO2P2MLHQ 2R2S2LR2LT2QU2V2W2R2 X2G2G2 Y2R2Z2J2A3LB3B3B3OB3 C3D3VE3XLF3LB3LG3R2G H3I3J3LC3B3B3B3B3B3L K3O2 C3L3LB3TLLM3B3N3LD3D B3B3O2O2XO3B3P3Q3G2B 3B3OO3 R3J3 S3LT3T3HLB3B3DB3B3LM 2O2LR2LWB3B3XLB3LDLM 2U3O2DB3B3OLOR2V3OH come thou power divine | A |
Thou lovely spirit with the wings of light | B |
And let thy dewy eyes | C |
Shed their sweet influences on my soul | D |
Oh let me hear thy voice | E |
Whose sound thrills with a keener deeper bliss | F |
Than the shrill jubilance the bird of joy | G |
Pours on the air | H |
Or the child babblings of the gladsome rill | I |
When issuing first from out its mossy couch | J |
In venturesome delight it frisks in glee | K |
Adown the hoary mountain silver fraught | L |
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Oh come | M |
Where I do lie drenched in my bitter tears | N |
And drowning in dejection haunted by | O |
The pale gaunt fears that spectre like rush forth | P |
In shadowy swarms from out the brains's black cells | Q |
Like glaring madmen in confusion 'scaped | L |
From out their dens whirling with shambling limbs | R |
In whooping dances through the startled dusk | S |
And pouncing wildly on my shiv'ring soul | D |
Where in her hour of weakness prostrate she | K |
Doth palpitate in terror like a deer | T |
That hunted by the swift pursuing hounds | U |
Wounded and bleeding sinks upon the ground | L |
While with hoarse croaks the ravening birds of prey | V |
Wheel close and closer darkening all the air | H |
But thou | W |
Come breathe upon me with thy balmy breath | X |
Like a young wind born in the ros d east | L |
That leapeth boy like from the lap of morn | Y |
To blow the land all clear from crouching fogs | Z |
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Thus drive thou hence the phantoms cleanse my soul | D |
Thou sweet enchantress with the magic spells | Q |
Wails there a heart lone on the populous earth | A2 |
Like a weak infant lost within the night | L |
That crieth piteously in helplessness | B2 |
And pusheth its blind limbs with gestures scared | L |
Against the gloom | C2 |
Then with an airy footfall glidest thou | W |
Gently anigh as softly as a cloud | L |
When one alone in crimson glory slides | D2 |
Along the twilight sky tak'st the bewildered thing | E2 |
Into thine arms thy fair and downy arms | F2 |
And rock'st it on thy bosom singing low | G2 |
An old old song old as the flowers that bloom | C2 |
And like them ever young till dreams rise up | H2 |
Like cool white mists from out the heart of hills | I2 |
And lie dew sweet upon it in its sleep | J2 |
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Sits there an orphan girl with sunken cheeks | K2 |
And red rimmed eyes high up beneath the leads | L2 |
Stitching with aching fingers all the night | L |
Beside the meagre flame to earn her bread | L |
And feed with scanty fuel the low fire | M2 |
Of life while the shrill blast | L |
Dashes the rain against the rattling panes | N2 |
And down the chimney roars with smoke and wet | L |
Then comest thou with memories all dim | O2 |
And faint with beauty from the childish years | P2 |
Transposing them into the time to come | M |
With a new lustre of the full grown heart | L |
Where the bare walls stood with a hungry stare | H |
The golden cornfields weighed down by their wealth | Q2 |
Sway to and fro purling the brook flows on | R2 |
And like a bit of sky drawn down by love | S2 |
Wilds of forget me nots run riot round | L |
And meadows scent the air and lowing kine | R2 |
Are driven home and silver geese hiss loud | L |
Within the pools and childhood's silver laughs | T2 |
Ring o'er the green like chimes of silver bells | Q |
In the clear atmosphere and through green boughs | U2 |
Curls up the smoke from many a thatch d roof | V2 |
Flushed all the land with roseate floods of eve | W2 |
While large and full glows low the harvest moon | R2 |
There as through homely fields she lightly walks | X2 |
And one is by her side and whispers low | G2 |
And thine oh hope the future's kindling glow | G2 |
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Rocks there a sailor on a reeling ship | Y2 |
That staggers blindly like a brain struck man | R2 |
Around the staring cliffs | Z2 |
While the wild blast the fiddler of the deep | J2 |
Wakes such mad music on his shrieking strings | A3 |
That the fierce elements in huge delight | L |
Vault from their torpor rearing giant heights | B3 |
Ha The maned billows from abysmal deeps | B3 |
Leap like live Alps and catch the tearing clouds | B3 |
That dizzy haste along the wilds of sky | O |
Tossing them round in labyrinthic whirls | B3 |
To the witch light of lightning and the roar | C3 |
Of thunder in its crashing clattering fall | D3 |
Yea while the ocean yawneth for its prey | V |
Yelling with starv d jaws around the hull | E3 |
Man's sole frail guardian from the fangs of death | X |
Thou softly float'st | L |
Like to the dove that bore the olive branch | F3 |
Across the waste of waters to his side | L |
No longer sees he then the wide wild sea | B3 |
No longer hears he the tempestuous blast | L |
But where the cottage leans against the cliff | G3 |
The evening star shedding its peace adown | R2 |
He lifts the latch and with one bound of joy | G |
He stands in the low room beside the hearth | H3 |
Where sits his winsome wife and rocks her babe | I3 |
With lullabies and heaving one big sob | J3 |
He strains her to his breast her whom he thought | L |
On this side of the grave to see no more | C3 |
Then does she take him by the hand and leads | B3 |
Him round from cot to cot where with round cheeks | B3 |
His children lie sleep flushed 'twixt snow white sheets | B3 |
And snatching up the youngest in his arms | B3 |
With an untameable emotion weeps | B3 |
His kisses on him till it opens wide | L |
Large dream dew'd eyes and lisps with cherry mouth | K3 |
'Oh Dada Dada ' That thou dost for him | O2 |
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Wanders the patriot on a stranger shore | C3 |
And exile from the land he loved too well | L3 |
Within his heart | L |
The festering wound a thankless nation strikes | B3 |
When cloud capp'd by its ignorance and fear | T |
And goaded on by spurring king and priest | L |
Like a mad dog it turns and bites the hand | L |
Stretched out to heal | M3 |
He sees his friends fall off like rotten leaves | B3 |
That scrambling flee the tempest girted oak | N3 |
He sees the enemies he boldly braved | L |
Forging the red hot slanders wherewithal | D3 |
To scorch his writhing soul | D |
Alone in the wide world alone he stands | B3 |
Alone save where beyond the roaring seas | B3 |
His mother weeps and weeps oh God through him | O2 |
Then blowing from dead deserts the simoom | O2 |
Of doubt breathes on him with its killing breath | X |
With'ring the flowers of faith the groves of youth | O3 |
And buffeting his heart on cruel waves | B3 |
Of wind e'en like a quiv'ring autumn leaf | P3 |
Oh is it strange | Q3 |
That in the midnight on the dark there grow | G2 |
Pale faces sweating blood and wrapped in shrouds | B3 |
Turning reproachful eyes upon his eyes | B3 |
And asking dumbly 'Wherefore did we die | O |
And spill the wine filled goblets of our youth | O3 |
On barren soil that will not teem with birth ' | - |
That brides like broken lilies whirled along | R3 |
By arrowy streams glide past and sadly sob | J3 |
'Thou'st mowed us down and mowed us down in vain ' | - |
That infants thrill the silence with their wail | S3 |
'Why are we fatherless if fatherland | L |
Is still denied ' And that his heartstrings quake | T3 |
With sobs of mothers' hearts that hopeless break | T3 |
Strange that his purpose that did seem so fair | H |
With a white blaze of light around her head | L |
Which fell like orient beams on nations' brows | B3 |
Should wane before his terror stricken eyes | B3 |
And that in direst agony of soul | D |
His noble nature tott'ring on her base | B3 |
Should question if his deeds were rightful deeds | B3 |
Stirred up by God's own living breath or pushed | L |
By hot ambition's ravenous desire | M2 |
And if the aim that drew were but a dream | O2 |
By which his visionary youth was mocked | L |
As travellers in the desert by the shine | R2 |
Of fair false waters At that torturing thought | L |
Smells of cold graves struck damp upon his brow | W |
Till his wilds eyes grew void and limp his limbs | B3 |
And he had dropped resistless in the jaws | B3 |
Of madness or of death | X |
Hadst thou not come perennial presence bright | L |
As Phosphorus in the dim morning skies | B3 |
And poured thy morning sunbeams on his heart | L |
And blown thy morning breezes on his soul | D |
Till freshly born the world and on him smiled | L |
With eyes as tender as his mother's were | M2 |
When sowing love upon his cradled self | U3 |
Then back plucked he his purpose fixed it firm | O2 |
In iron steadfastness upon his soul | D |
And called on faith where with upturn d eyes | B3 |
Above the clouds she treads the mountain peaks | B3 |
And on that love which boundless as the sky | O |
Stretches o'er all mankind its azured vault | L |
Then rose he set his trustful eyes on high | O |
And set his heart among the lowly born | R2 |
For in the | V3 |
Mathilde Blind
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