There's Joy, &c Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGBHBH IJIJKLKM NONPQRQR STSTUVUV WXYXGZGZ UA2UA2B2C2B2D2 E2DF2DG2H2G2I2| There's joy when the rosy morning floods | A |
| The purple east with light | B |
| When the zephyr sweeps from a thousand buds | A |
| The pearly tears of night | B |
| There's joy when the lark exulting springs | C |
| To pour his matin lay | D |
| From the blossomed thorn when the blackbird sings | C |
| And the merry month is May | D |
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| There's joy abroad when the wintry snow | E |
| Melts as it ne'er had been | F |
| When cowslips bud and violets blow | E |
| And leaves are fresh and green | G |
| There's joy in the swallow's airy flight | B |
| In the cuckoo's blithesome cry | H |
| When the floating clouds reflect the light | B |
| Of evening's glowing sky | H |
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| There's joy in April's balmy showers | I |
| 'Mid gleam of sunshine shed | J |
| When May calls forth a thousand flowers | I |
| To deck the earth's green bed | J |
| There's joy when the harvest moon comes out | K |
| With all her starry train | L |
| When the woods return the reaper's shout | K |
| And echo shouts again | M |
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| There's joy in childhood's merry voice | N |
| When the laugh rings blithe and clear | O |
| And the sounds that bid young hearts rejoice | N |
| Are music to the ear | P |
| There's joy in the dreams of early youth | Q |
| Ere care has cast a shade | R |
| O'er scenes which though drest in the guise of truth | Q |
| Our reason dooms to fade | R |
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| There's joy in the youthful lover's breast | S |
| When his bride by the altar stands | T |
| When his trembling lip to hers is pressed | S |
| And the priest has joined their hands | T |
| There's joy in the smiling mother's heart | U |
| When she clasps her first born son | V |
| When the holy tears of rapture start | U |
| To bless the lovely one | V |
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| There's joy when the war worn soldier hears | W |
| The notes that breathe of peace | X |
| That dry the anxious matron's tears | Y |
| And bid stern slaughter cease | X |
| There's joy when he treads the village green | G |
| And views his father's cot | Z |
| The horrors of the battle scene | G |
| Are in that hour forgot | Z |
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| There's joy in the shipwrecked seaman's heart | U |
| Who has clung all night to the shrouds | A2 |
| When the morning breeze rives the rack apart | U |
| And the sun breaks through the clouds | A2 |
| There's joy when he nears his native land | B2 |
| And the tedious voyage is o'er | C2 |
| And he feels the grasp of the kindred hand | B2 |
| He thought to enfold no more | D2 |
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| There's joy above around beneath | E2 |
| But tis a fleeting ray | D |
| The world's stern strife the hand of death | F2 |
| Bid mortal hopes decay | D |
| But there's a better joy than earth | G2 |
| With all her charms can give | H2 |
| Which marks the Christian's second birth | G2 |
| When man but dies to live | I2 |
Susanna Moodie
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