By And By Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CADAEFGF HIHIJKLK MNMNOJOJ APAPJFJQ RSRSGTGT MUMUUVWV USUSOXYZ A2OUPMUMU UB2C2B2D2HMJ BUUUE2UF2UGod will not let His bright gifts die | A |
If I may not sing my songs just now | B |
I shall sing them by and by | A |
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A young man with a Poet's soul | C |
And a Poet's kindling eye | A |
Dark dreamy full of unvoiced thought | D |
And forehead calm and high | A |
Toiled wearily at his heavy task | E |
Till his soul grew sick with pain | F |
And the pent up fires that burned within | G |
Seemed withering heart and brain | F |
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Work work work he murmured low | H |
Glancing up at the golden west | I |
Work with the sunset heavens aglow | H |
By the hands of angels dressed | I |
Work for this perishing human clay | J |
While the soul like a prisoned bird | K |
Flutters its helpless wings always | L |
By passionate longings stirred | K |
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I hear in the wandering zephyr's song | M |
Tones that no others hear | N |
And alien melodies all day long | M |
Are murmuring in my ear | N |
Phantoms of beauty in cloud and flower | O |
Haunt me where'er I stray | J |
And flit thro' the green of the summer bower | O |
At the close of each toil spent day | J |
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There are voices that sigh in the wind's low sigh | A |
Or wail in the tempest's roar | P |
That sing in the brooklets that wander by | A |
Or sob along ocean's shore | P |
I hear them ever yet may not stay | J |
To list to the rhythmic strain | F |
And the unvoiced melodies die away | J |
Never to come again | Q |
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Something I see in the lightning's flash | R |
That my fellows may not see | S |
And something hear in the thunder's crash | R |
That cometh alone to me | S |
But the glory fades ere I gather it in | G |
And fix it in brain or heart | T |
And the strains I caught thro' the elements' din | G |
Are lost in Toil's crowded mart | T |
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O haunting strains of unuttered song | M |
O tenderest melodies lost | U |
O sweet stray notes of the heavenly throng | M |
On the wing of the tempest tossed | U |
O spirit harp that untouched untuned | U |
To each subtle influence thrills | V |
As thrills some wild Aeolian harp | W |
To the breezes that sweep the hills | V |
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I thirst I pant to be free to list | U |
To the voices that call to me | S |
From flood and fountain from vale and height | U |
From forest and shore and sea | S |
To gaze on the Beauty whose subtle fire | O |
Breaks on me thro' Nature's eyes | X |
And pour from the strings of my unused lyre | Y |
All tenderest harmonies | Z |
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Ah thirsty spirit the day will come | A2 |
When the sway of this mortal o'er | O |
Thou shall strike thy lyre with a fearless hand | U |
On a brighter calmer shore | P |
For God who giveth the breath of Song | M |
Will not let His bright gifts die | U |
And though thy harp strings be silent long | M |
Thou shalt waken them by and by | U |
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Aye and the Music that seemeth lost | U |
Shall linger in Memory's cells | B2 |
As lingers along the Alpine heights | C2 |
The echo of vesper bells | B2 |
Not lost but waiting the freer pulse | D2 |
Of the life thou yet shalt know | H |
To blend with the tides of enraptured song | M |
That the Heavenly heights o'erflow | J |
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And the Beauty that lost to thee seemeth now | B |
Sealed in thy heart shall stay | U |
As the sun ray sealed in the diamond's heart | U |
Burns on with unchanging ray | U |
Then take with gladness the joy that steals | E2 |
The sting of thy toil away | U |
And wait in hope for the higher joy | F2 |
That shall crown thee another day | U |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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