Life's Joys. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADD EFFGHH IJJIKK LMMLMM NJJNOO PJJQMM RSSRTT UAAULL VLLVWW AJJALL| I have been pondering what our teachers call | A |
| The mystery of Pain and lo my thought | B |
| After it's half blind reaching out has caught | C |
| This truth and held it fast We may not fall | A |
| Beyond our mounting stung by life's annoy | D |
| Deeper we feel the mystery of Joy | D |
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| Sometimes they steal across us like a breath | E |
| Of Eastern perfume in a darkened room | F |
| These joys of ours we grope on through the gloom | F |
| Seeking some common thing and from its sheath | G |
| Unloose unknowing some bewildering scent | H |
| Of spice thronged memories of the Orient | H |
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| Sometimes they dart across our turbid sky | I |
| Like a quick flash after a heated day | J |
| A moment where the sombrous shadows lay | J |
| We see a glory Though it passed us by | I |
| No earthly power can filch that dazzling glow | K |
| From memory's eye that instant's shine and show | K |
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| Life is so full of joys The alluring sea | L |
| This morning clear and placid may ere night | M |
| Toss like a petulant child and when the light | M |
| Of a new morning dawns sweep grand and free | L |
| A mighty power If fierce or mild or bright | M |
| With every tide flows in a fresh delight | M |
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| I can remember well when first I knew | N |
| The fragrance of white clover There I lay | J |
| On the warm July grass and heard the play | J |
| Of sun browned insects and the breezes blew | N |
| To my drowsed sense the scent the blossoms had | O |
| The subtle sweetness stayed and I was glad | O |
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| Nor passed the gladness Though the years have gone | P |
| A many years Beloved since that day | J |
| Whenever by the roadside or away | J |
| In radiant summer fields wandering alone | Q |
| Or with glad children to my restless sight | M |
| Shows that pale head comes back the old delight | M |
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| Oh the dark water and the filling sail | R |
| The scudding like a sea mew with the hand | S |
| Firm on the tiller See the red shored land | S |
| Receding as we brave the hastening gale | R |
| White gleam the wave tops and the breakers' roar | T |
| Sounds thunderingly on the far distant shore | T |
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| This mad hair flying in the breeze blows wild | U |
| Across my face See there the gathering squall | A |
| That dark line to the eastward watch it crawl | A |
| Stealthily towards us o'er the snow wreaths piled | U |
| Close on each other Ah what joy to be | L |
| Drunk with salt air in battle with the sea | L |
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| So many joys and yet I have but told | V |
| Of simple things the joys of air and sea | L |
| Not all these things are worth one hour with thee | L |
| One moment when thy daring arms enfold | V |
| My body and all other meaner joys | W |
| Fade from me like a child's forgotten toys | W |
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| One thought is ever with me glorying all | A |
| Life's common aims Surely will dawn a day | J |
| Bright with an unknown rapture when thy way | J |
| Will be my journey road and I can call | A |
| These joys our joys for thou wilt walk with me | L |
| Down budding pathways to the abounding sea | L |
Sophie M. (almon) Hensley
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