Hymn Of The Convalescent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFDGDG HIHJAKAK LMLNOPOP QBQBRSRS TUTVWXWX YZYZHA2HA2| My eyes have seen another spring | A |
| In floral beauty rise | B |
| And happy birds on gladsome wing | A |
| Flit through the azure skies | B |
| Though sickness bowed my feeble frame | C |
| Through winter's cheerless hours | D |
| Life's sinking torch resumes its flame | C |
| With renovated powers | D |
| - | |
| Once more on nature's ample shrine | E |
| Beneath the spreading boughs | F |
| With lifted hands and hopes divine | E |
| I offer up my vows | F |
| My incense is the breath of flowers | D |
| Perfuming all the air | G |
| My pillared fane these woodland bowers | D |
| A heaven built house of prayer | G |
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| My fellow worshippers the gay | H |
| Free songsters of the grove | I |
| Who to the closing eye of day | H |
| Warble their hymns of love | J |
| The low and dulcet lyre of spring | A |
| Swept by the vagrant breeze | K |
| Borne far on echo's spreading wing | A |
| Stirs all the budding trees | K |
| - | |
| Again I catch the cuckoo's note | L |
| That faintly murmurs near | M |
| The mingled melodies that float | L |
| To rapture's listening ear | N |
| While April like a virgin pale | O |
| Retreats with modest grace | P |
| And blushing through her tearful veil | O |
| Just shows her cherub face | P |
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| 'Tis but a momentary gleam | Q |
| From those young laughing eyes | B |
| Yet like a meteor's passing beam | Q |
| It lights up earth and skies | B |
| But ere the sun exhales the dew | R |
| That sparkles on the grass | S |
| Dark clouds flit o'er the smiling blue | R |
| Like shadows o'er a glass | S |
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| But ah upon the musing mind | T |
| Those varied smiles and tears | U |
| Like words of love but half defined | T |
| Give birth to hopes and fears | V |
| The joyful heart one moment bounds | W |
| Then feels a sudden chill | X |
| Whispering in vague uncertain sounds | W |
| Presentiments of ill | X |
| - | |
| When dire disease an arrow sent | Y |
| And thrilled my breast with pain | Z |
| My mind was like a bow unbent | Y |
| Or harp strings after rain | Z |
| I could not weep I could not pray | H |
| Nor raise my thoughts on high | A2 |
| Till light from heaven like April's ray | H |
| Broke through the stormy sky | A2 |
Susanna Moodie
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