Loneliness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DCCDCC ECCEFG HIIHCC JEEJCC CKKCCC LMMLNNDear I am lonely for the bay is still | A |
As any hill girt lake the long brown beach | B |
Lies bare and wet As far as eye can reach | B |
There is no motion Even on the hill | A |
Where the breeze loves to wander I can see | C |
No stir of leaves nor any waving tree | C |
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There is a great red cliff that fronts my view | D |
A bare unsightly thing it angers me | C |
With its unswerving grim monotony | C |
The mackerel weir with branching boughs askew | D |
Stands like a fire swept forest while the sea | C |
Laps it with soothing sighs continually | C |
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There are no tempests in this sheltered bay | E |
The stillness frets me and I long to be | C |
Where winds sweep strong and blow tempestuously | C |
To stand upon some hill top far away | E |
And face a gathering gale and let the stress | F |
Of Nature's mood subdue my restlessness | G |
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An impulse seizes me a mad desire | H |
To tear away that red browed cliff to sweep | I |
Its crest of trees and huts into the deep | I |
To force a gap by axe or storm or fire | H |
And let rush in with motion glad and free | C |
The rolling waves of the wild wondrous sea | C |
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Sometimes I wonder if I am the child | J |
Of calm law loving parents or a stray | E |
From some wild gypsy camp I cannot stay | E |
Quiet among my fellows when this wild | J |
Longing for freedom takes me I must fly | C |
To my dear woods and know my liberty | C |
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It is this cringing to a social law | C |
That I despise these changing senseless forms | K |
Of fashion And until a thousand storms | K |
Of God's impatience shall reveal the flaw | C |
In man's pet system he will weave the spell | C |
About his heart and dream that all is well | C |
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Ah Life is hard Dear Heart for I am left | L |
To battle with my old time fears alone | M |
I must live calmly on and make no moan | M |
Though of my hoped for happiness bereft | L |
Thou wilt not come and still the red cliff lies | N |
Hiding my ocean from these longing eyes | N |
Sophie M. (almon) Hensley
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