An Evening Thought - Written At Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDF GHGHIJIJ KLKLMNMN OPQPRBRB| If sometimes in the dark blue eye | A |
| Or in the deep red wine | B |
| Or soothed by gentlest melody | C |
| Still warms this heart of mine | B |
| Yet something colder in the blood | D |
| And calmer in the brain | E |
| Have whispered that my youth's bright flood | D |
| Ebbs not to flow again | F |
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| If by Helvetia's azure lake | G |
| Or Arno's yellow stream | H |
| Each star of memory could awake | G |
| As in my first young dream | H |
| I know that when mine eye shall greet | I |
| The hillsides bleak and bare | J |
| That gird my home it will not meet | I |
| My childhood's sunsets there | J |
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| Oh when love's first sweet stolen kiss | K |
| Burned on my boyish brow | L |
| Was that young forehead worn as this | K |
| Was that flushed cheek as now | L |
| Were that wild pulse and throbbing heart | M |
| Like these which vainly strive | N |
| In thankless strains of soulless art | M |
| To dream themselves alive | N |
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| Alas the morning dew is gone | O |
| Gone ere the full of day | P |
| Life's iron fetter still is on | Q |
| Its wreaths all torn away | P |
| Happy if still some casual hour | R |
| Can warm the fading shrine | B |
| Too soon to chill beyond the power | R |
| Of love or song or wine | B |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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