A Lonely Moment. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DEDFG HCHCI JKJKH LMLMN OPOPQ IRSRE TUVUW PRPRXO YSYIZFI sit alone in the gray | A |
The snow falls thick and fast | B |
And never a sound have I heard all day | A |
But the wailing of the blast | B |
And the hiss and click of the snow whirling to and fro | C |
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There seems no living thing | D |
Left in the world but I | E |
My thoughts fly forth on restless wing | D |
And drift back wearily | F |
Storm beaten buffeted hopeless and almost dead | G |
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No one there is to care | H |
Not one to even know | C |
Of the lonely day and the dull despair | H |
As the hours ebb and flow | C |
Slow lingering as fain to lengthen out my pain | I |
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And I think of the monks of old | J |
Each in his separate cell | K |
Hearing no sound except when tolled | J |
The stated convent bell | K |
How could they live and bear that silence everywhere | H |
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And I think of tumbling seas | L |
'Neath cruel lonely skies | M |
And shipwrecked sailors over these | L |
Stretching their hungry eyes | M |
Eyes dimmed with wasting tears for weary years on years | N |
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Pacing the hopeless sand | O |
Wistful and wan and pale | P |
Each foam flash like a beckoning hand | O |
Each wave a glancing sail | P |
And so for days and days and still the sail delays | Q |
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I hide my eyes in vain | I |
In vain I try to smile | R |
That urging vision comes again | S |
The sailor on his isle | R |
With none to hear his cry to help him live or die | E |
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And with the pang a thought | T |
Breaks o'er me like the sun | U |
Of the great listening Love which caught | V |
Those accents every one | U |
Nor lost one faintest word but always always heard | W |
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The monk his vigil pale | P |
Could lighten with a smile | R |
The sailor's courage need not fail | P |
Upon his lonely isle | R |
For there as here by sea or land the pitying Lord stood | X |
close at hand | O |
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O coward heart of mine | Y |
When storms shall beat again | S |
Hold firmly to this thought divine | Y |
As anchorage in pain | I |
That lonely though thou seemest to be the Lord is near | Z |
remembering thee | F |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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