Disappointment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDC EFEFE CCCCC CGCGC HIHJH CKCK CLCMC| And were they but for this those passionate schemes | A |
| Of joy that I have nursed indeed for this | B |
| That longings day and night have filled my dreams | A |
| Now it has come the hour of bliss | B |
| How different it seems | A |
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| So thought I bitterly but on my bed | C |
| As I lay lone and restless in my ear | D |
| Falling from some far place of peace o'erhead | C |
| Through the still dark I seemed to hear | D |
| These accents softly shed | C |
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| Wouldst thou then child from this invading pain | E |
| Find refuge and relax thy suffering will | F |
| In tears To peace wouldst thou indeed attain | E |
| Remember all thy courage still | F |
| True to thyself remain | E |
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| What is it to thee if some wished delight | C |
| That from the future beckoned thee at last | C |
| Comes changed its former glory faded quite | C |
| Fly the perfidious Hours keep fast | C |
| Within the springs of light | C |
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| What is it to thee if in some dear mind | C |
| Another is remembered more than thou | G |
| Quench that poor envy let no gazer find | C |
| Aught in thine acts or on thy brow | G |
| But what is sweet and kind | C |
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| For how shall that pure spirit whom vain things flee | H |
| Whom passion's ebbs and floods delight not Love | I |
| The consolation of the world if he | H |
| Out of his course so lightly move | J |
| Immortal and eternal be | H |
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| Take courage peace at last and joy attend | C |
| The true fixt heart that mocks Time's envious power | K |
| The heart that tender even to the end | C |
| Exacts not joy from any hour | K |
| Nor love from any friend '' | - |
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| Alas how oft I have wished that voice had spared | C |
| Its counsel stern nor pointed me through tears | L |
| My path How oft to feet stumbling and scarred | C |
| That path impossible appears | M |
| Which yet is only hard | C |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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