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 grayA
The snow falls thick and fastB
And never a sound have I heard all dayA
But the wailing of the blastB
And the hiss and click of the snow whirling to and froC
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There seems no living thingD
Left in the world but IE
My thoughts fly forth on restless wingD
And drift back wearilyF
Storm beaten buffeted hopeless and almost deadG
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No one there is to careH
Not one to even knowC
Of the lonely day and the dull despairH
As the hours ebb and flowC
Slow lingering as fain to lengthen out my painI
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And I think of the monks of oldJ
Each in his separate cellK
Hearing no sound except when tolledJ
The stated convent bellK
How could they live and bear that silence everywhereH
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And I think of tumbling seasL
'Neath cruel lonely skiesM
And shipwrecked sailors over theseL
Stretching their hungry eyesM
Eyes dimmed with wasting tears for weary years on yearsN
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Pacing the hopeless sandO
Wistful and wan and paleP
Each foam flash like a beckoning handO
Each wave a glancing sailP
And so for days and days and still the sail delaysQ
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I hide my eyes in vainI
In vain I try to smileR
That urging vision comes againS
The sailor on his isleR
With none to hear his cry to help him live or dieE
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And with the pang a thoughtT
Breaks o'er me like the sunU
Of the great listening Love which caughtV
Those accents every oneU
Nor lost one faintest word but always always heardW
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The monk his vigil paleP
Could lighten with a smileR
The sailor's courage need not failP
Upon his lonely isleR
For there as here by sea or land the pitying Lord stoodX
close at handO
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O coward heart of mineY
When storms shall beat againS
Hold firmly to this thought divineY
As anchorage in painI
That lonely though thou seemest to be the Lord is nearZ
remembering theeF

Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)



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