Lyrics Of Love And Sorrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC BCDC BEDE A FCGC FCDC A HIDI HJKJ J DDDDHHJJ J LLMLENJNDOAO DLDLPNDN| I | A |
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| Love is the light of the world my dear | B |
| Heigho but the world is gloomy | C |
| The light has failed and the lamp down hurled | D |
| Leaves only darkness to me | C |
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| Love is the light of the world my dear | B |
| Ah me but the world is dreary | C |
| The night is down and my curtain furled | D |
| But I cannot sleep though weary | C |
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| Love is the light of the world my dear | B |
| Alas for a hopeless hoping | E |
| When the flame went out in the breeze that swirled | D |
| And a soul went blindly groping | E |
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| II | A |
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| The light was on the golden sands | F |
| A glimmer on the sea | C |
| My soul spoke clearly to thy soul | G |
| Thy spirit answered me | C |
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| Since then the light that gilds the sands | F |
| And glimmers on the sea | C |
| But vainly struggles to reflect | D |
| The radiant soul of thee | C |
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| III | A |
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| The sea speaks to me of you | H |
| All the day long | I |
| Still as I sit by its side | D |
| You are its song | I |
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| The sea sings to me of you | H |
| Loud on the reef | J |
| Always it moans as it sings | K |
| Voicing my grief | J |
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| IV | J |
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| My dear love died last night | D |
| Shall I clothe her in white | D |
| My passionate love is dead | D |
| Shall I robe her in red | D |
| But nay she was all untrue | H |
| She shall not go drest in blue | H |
| Still my desolate love was brave | J |
| Unrobed let her go to her grave | J |
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| V | J |
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| There are brilliant heights of sorrow | L |
| That only the few may know | L |
| And the lesser woes of the world like waves | M |
| Break noiselessly far below | L |
| I hold for my own possessing | E |
| A mount that is lone and still | N |
| The great high place of a hopeless grief | J |
| And I call it my Heart break Hill | N |
| And once on a winter's midnight | D |
| I found its highest crown | O |
| And there in the gloom my soul and I | A |
| Weeping we sat us down | O |
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| But now when I seek that summit | D |
| We are two ghosts that go | L |
| Only two shades of a thing that died | D |
| Once in the long ago | L |
| So I sit me down in the silence | P |
| And say to my soul Be still | N |
| So the world may not know we died that night | D |
| From weeping on Heart break Hill | N |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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