Untitled 8 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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| Thou sinless and sweet one thy voice is a strain | B |
| Which yields solace to sadness and balm to my pain | B |
| From thy unsullied spirit it comes to me here | C |
| Like the music of Eden soft holy and clear | D |
| The storm stirring thoughts o'er my heart holding sway | E |
| At the charm of its gentleness vanish away | E |
| For its melody teeming with gladness and love | F |
| Seems the song of the seraph to lure me above | F |
| Beautiful prattler that music of mirth | G |
| Yet unchecked by the cares and the sorrows of earth | G |
| Mingles strangely where anguish and retchedness reign | B |
| With the sigh of the captive and the clank of his chain | B |
| Yet I love to hear it though captive I be | H |
| Gushing pure from thy young heart all joyous and free | H |
| There's a siren like sweetness pervading its song | I |
| Which can woo me to virtue and win me from wrong | I |
| Play on then play on then for thou dost not know | J |
| What it is to be wretched and burdened with woe | J |
| There's the fair world around thee and blue sky above | F |
| Ever seeming to breathe on thee beauty and love | F |
| And the waters that flash in the suns golden beams | K |
| Dance beneath thee as bright as thine own fairy dreams | K |
| Yet here there are hearts sank in ruin and crime | L |
| Which once was as gleesome and guiltless as thine | M |
| Beware then beware when seducingly gay | E |
| Vice with counterfeit smiles would beguile thee away | E |
| From the good and the lovely from virtue and joy | N |
| To the pleasures of sin which debase and destroy | N |
| Those holy emotions and pure thoughts which dwell | O |
| In the bosom of childhood oh cherish them well | O |
| For if there's a true joy this world can impart | P |
| It surely exists in the innocent heart | P |
| Though remorse wring my soul and | Q |
| though care clothe my brow | R |
| I once was as sinless and joyous as thou | R |
| And knelt too like thee by a fond mother's chair | S |
| With tiny hands folded in faith hallowed pray'r | T |
| Play on my sweet child there's a penitent tear | S |
| Stealing down my wan cheek as I list to thee here | C |
| There's a prayer in my heart to the wise one above | F |
| To be made like a child in belief and in love | F |
| O ever when gladly this gay world would win | U |
| With its tinselled allurements thy young heart to sin | U |
| Turn away from the light of its illusive glare | S |
| And seek in temptation thy refuge of pray'r | T |
| Uncorrupted in heart and a stranger to woe | J |
| With the garland of love green and bright on thy brow | R |
| Mayn't thou journey through life and thy voice still retain | B |
| Its heav'n given sweetness to sooth grief and pain | B |
Owen Suffolk
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