The Lesson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE BGHG IJAJ KGLG MNON| My cot was down by a cypress grove | A |
| And I sat by my window the whole night long | B |
| And heard well up from the deep dark wood | C |
| A mocking bird's passionate song | B |
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| And I thought of myself so sad and lone | D |
| And my life's cold winter that knew no spring | E |
| Of my mind so weary and sick and wild | F |
| Of my heart too sad to sing | E |
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| But e'en as I listened the mock bird's song | B |
| A thought stole into my saddened heart | G |
| And I said I can cheer some other soul | H |
| By a carol's simple art | G |
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| For oft from the darkness of hearts and lives | I |
| Come songs that brim with joy and light | J |
| As out of the gloom of the cypress grove | A |
| The mocking bird sings at night | J |
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| So I sang a lay for a brother's ear | K |
| In a strain to soothe his bleeding heart | G |
| And he smiled at the sound of my voice and lyre | L |
| Though mine was a feeble art | G |
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| But at his smile I smiled in turn | M |
| And into my soul there came a ray | N |
| In trying to soothe another's woes | O |
| Mine own had passed away | N |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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