Revulsion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACD EFFEGG HIIHJJ KLLKFF MJJMNN OPPOQQ DRRDSS| I see the starting buds I catch the gleam | A |
| In the near distance of a sun kissed pool | B |
| The blessed April air blows soft and cool | B |
| Small wonder if all sorrow grows a dream | A |
| And we forget that close around us lie | C |
| A city's poor a city's misery | D |
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| Of every outward vision there is some | E |
| Internal counterpart To day I know | F |
| The blessedness of living and the glow | F |
| Of life's dear spring tide I can bid thee come | E |
| In thought and wander where the fields are fair | G |
| With bursting life and I rejoicing there | G |
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| Yet have I passed Beloved through the vale | H |
| Of dark dismay and felt the dews of death | I |
| Upon my brow have measured out my breath | I |
| Counting my hours of joy as misers quail | H |
| At every footfall in the quiet night | J |
| And clutch their gold and count it in affright | J |
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| I learned new lessons in that school of fear | K |
| Life took a fresh perspective sad and brave | L |
| The view is from the threshold of the grave | L |
| In that long backward glance I saw her clear | K |
| From fogs of gathering night and all the show | F |
| Of small things that seemed great a while ago | F |
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| Our dreams of fame the stubborn power we call | M |
| Our self respect our hopes of worldly good | J |
| Our jealousies and fears how in the flood | J |
| Of this new light they faded poor and small | M |
| Showing our pettiness beside God's truth | N |
| Besides His age our poor unlearned youth | N |
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| The earth yearns forth impatient for the days | O |
| Of its maturity the ample sweets | P |
| Of Summer's fulness and its great heart beats | P |
| With a fierce restlessness for Spring delays | O |
| Seeing her giddy reign end all too soon | Q |
| Her bud crown ravished by the hand of June | Q |
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| And I I shall be happy promise me | D |
| This one small thing Beloved for I long | R |
| For happiness as the caged bird for song | R |
| Not where four walls close in the melody | D |
| I want the fresh sweet air the water's gush | S |
| The strong sane life with thee the summer hush | S |
Sophie M. (almon) Hensley
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