Hard Times Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDE FGHIJDE DKGLKDE MNOP DE QKMDKDE

Music is silenced the dark descending slowlyA
Has stripped unending skies of all companionsB
Weariness grips your limbs and within the locked horizonsB
Dumbly ring the bells of hugely gathering fearsC
Still O bird O sightless birdD
Not yet not yet the time to furl your wingsE
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It's not melodious woodlands but the leaps and fallsF
Of an ocean's drowsy boomingG
Not a grove bedecked with flowers but a tumult flecked with foamH
Where is the shore that stored your buds and leavesI
Where the nest and the branch's holdJ
Still O bird my sightless birdD
Not yet not yet the time to furl your wingsE
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Stretching in front of you the night's immensityD
Hides the western hill where sleeps the distant sunK
Still with bated breath the world is counting time and swimmingG
Across the shoreless dark a crescent moonL
Has thinly just appeared upon the dim horizonK
But O my bird O sightless birdD
Not yet not yet the time to furl your wingsE
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From upper skies the stars with pointing fingersM
Intently watch your course and death's impatienceN
Lashes at you from the deeps in swirling wavesO
And sad entreaties line the farthest shoreP
With hands outstretched and crooning 'Come O come '-
Still O bird O sightless birdD
Not yet not yet the time to furl your wingsE
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All that is past your fears and loves and hopesQ
All that is lost your words and lamentationK
No longer yours a home nor a bed composed of flowersM
For wings are all you have and the sky's broadening countryardD
And the dawn steeped in darkness lacking all directionK
Dear bird my sightless birdD
Not yet not yet the time to furl your wingsE

Rabindranath Tagore



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