Hard Times Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDE FGHIJDE DKGLKDE MNOP DE QKMDKDEMusic is silenced the dark descending slowly | A |
Has stripped unending skies of all companions | B |
Weariness grips your limbs and within the locked horizons | B |
Dumbly ring the bells of hugely gathering fears | C |
Still O bird O sightless bird | D |
Not yet not yet the time to furl your wings | E |
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It's not melodious woodlands but the leaps and falls | F |
Of an ocean's drowsy booming | G |
Not a grove bedecked with flowers but a tumult flecked with foam | H |
Where is the shore that stored your buds and leaves | I |
Where the nest and the branch's hold | J |
Still O bird my sightless bird | D |
Not yet not yet the time to furl your wings | E |
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Stretching in front of you the night's immensity | D |
Hides the western hill where sleeps the distant sun | K |
Still with bated breath the world is counting time and swimming | G |
Across the shoreless dark a crescent moon | L |
Has thinly just appeared upon the dim horizon | K |
But O my bird O sightless bird | D |
Not yet not yet the time to furl your wings | E |
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From upper skies the stars with pointing fingers | M |
Intently watch your course and death's impatience | N |
Lashes at you from the deeps in swirling waves | O |
And sad entreaties line the farthest shore | P |
With hands outstretched and crooning 'Come O come ' | - |
Still O bird O sightless bird | D |
Not yet not yet the time to furl your wings | E |
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All that is past your fears and loves and hopes | Q |
All that is lost your words and lamentation | K |
No longer yours a home nor a bed composed of flowers | M |
For wings are all you have and the sky's broadening countryard | D |
And the dawn steeped in darkness lacking all direction | K |
Dear bird my sightless bird | D |
Not yet not yet the time to furl your wings | E |
Rabindranath Tagore
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