A Lonely Moment. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DEDFG HCHCI JKJKH LMLMN OPOPQ IRSRE TUVUW PRPRXO YSYIZF| I 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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