The Solitary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEF GHHHIJIJ KLKMDFBF NDNDOIOI PQRQSTUL| Alone alone How drear it is | A |
| Always to be alone | B |
| In such a depth of wilderness | C |
| The only thinking one | D |
| The waters in their path rejoice | E |
| The trees together sleep | F |
| But I have not one silver voice | E |
| Upon my ear to creep | F |
| - | |
| The sun upon the silent hills | G |
| His mesh of beauty weaves | H |
| There's music in the laughing rills | H |
| And in the whispering leaves | H |
| The red deer like the breezes fly | I |
| To meet the bounding roe | J |
| But I have not a human sigh | I |
| To cheer me as I go | J |
| - | |
| I've hated men I hate them now | K |
| But since they are not here | L |
| I thirst for the familiar brow | K |
| Thirst for the stealing tear | M |
| And I should love to see the one | D |
| And feel the other creep | F |
| And then again I'd be alone | B |
| Amid the forest deep | F |
| - | |
| I thought that I should love my hound | N |
| And hear my cracking gun | D |
| Till I forgot the thrilling sound | N |
| Of voices one by one | D |
| I thought that in the leafy hush | O |
| Of nature they would die | I |
| But as the hindered waters rush | O |
| Resisted feelings fly | I |
| - | |
| I'm weary of my lonely hut | P |
| And of its blasted tree | Q |
| The very lake is like my lot | R |
| So silent constantly | Q |
| I've lived amid the forest gloom | S |
| Until I almost fear | T |
| When will the thrilling voices come | U |
| My spirit thirsts to hear | L |
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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