From The Iron Gate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG DHDH IJIJ KLKL DMDN| AS on the gauzy wings of fancy flying | A |
| From some far orb I track our watery sphere | B |
| Home of the struggling suffering doubting dying | A |
| The silvered globule seems a glistening tear | C |
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| But Nature lends her mirror of illusion | D |
| To win from saddening scenes our age dimmed eyes | E |
| And misty day dreams blend in sweet confusion | D |
| The wintry landscape and the summer skies | E |
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| So when the iron portal shuts behind us | F |
| And life forgets us in its noise and whirl | G |
| Visions that shunned the glaring noonday find us | F |
| And glimmering starlight shows the gates of pearl | G |
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| I come not here your morning hour to sadden | D |
| A limping pilgrim leaning on his staff | H |
| I who have never deemed it sin to gladden | D |
| This vale of sorrows with a wholesome laugh | H |
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| If word of mine another s gloom has brightened | I |
| Through my dumb lips the heaven sent message came | J |
| If hand of mine another s task has lightened | I |
| It felt the guidance that it dares not claim | J |
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| But O my gentle sisters O my brothers | K |
| These thick sown snow flakes hint of toil s release | L |
| These feebler pulses bid me leave to others | K |
| The tasks once welcome evening asks for peace | L |
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| Time claims his tribute silence now is golden | D |
| Let me not vex the too long suffering lyre | M |
| Though to your love untiring still beholden | D |
| The curfew tells me cover up the fire | N |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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