The Solitary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHH JKJK HDHD DHDH DLDL HDHD| I have been lonely all my days on earth | A |
| Living a life within my secret soul | B |
| With mine own springs of sorrow and of mirth | A |
| Beyond the world's control | B |
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| Though sometimes with vain longing I have sought | C |
| To walk the paths where other mortals tread | D |
| To wear the clothes for other mortals wrought | C |
| And eat the selfsame bread | D |
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| Yet have I ever found when thus I strove | E |
| To mould my life upon the common plan | F |
| That I was furthest from all truth and love | G |
| And least a living man | F |
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| Truth frowned upon my poor hypocrisy | H |
| Life left my soul and dwelt but in my sense | I |
| No man could love me for all men could see | H |
| The hollow vain pretence | H |
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| Their clothes sat on me with outlandish air | J |
| Upon their easy road I tripped and fell | K |
| And still I sickened of the wholesome fare | J |
| On which they nourished well | K |
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| I was a stranger in that company | H |
| A Galilean whom his speech bewrayed | D |
| And when they lifted up their songs of glee | H |
| My voice sad discord made | D |
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| Peace for mine own self I could never find | D |
| And still my presence marred the general peace | H |
| And when I parted leaving them behind | D |
| They felt and I release | H |
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| So will I follow now my spirit's bent | D |
| Not scorning those who walk the beaten track | L |
| Yet not despising mine own banishment | D |
| Nor often looking back | L |
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| Their way is best for them but mine for me | H |
| And there is comfort for my lonely heart | D |
| To think perhaps our journeys' ends may be | H |
| Not very far apart | D |
Robert Fuller Murray
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