Uncertainty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNOPPQQRRSSTT MMUUVVWWXXYYZZA2A2B2 B2C2C2D2D2

Oh dread uncertaintyA
Life wasting agonyA
How dost thou pain the heartB
Causing such tears to startB
As sorrow never shedC
O'er hopes for ever fledC
For memory hoards up joyD
Beyond Time's dull alloyD
Pleasures that once have beenE
Shed light upon the sceneF
As setting suns fling backG
A bright and glowing trackG
To show they once have castH
A glory o'er the pastH
But thou tormenting fiendI
Beneath Hope's pinions screenedI
Leagued with distrust and painJ
Makest her promise vainJ
Weaving in life's fair crownK
Thistles instead of downK
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Who would not rather knowL
Present than coming woeL
For certain sorrow bringsM
A healing in its wingsM
The softening touch of yearsN
Still dries the mourner's tearsO
For human minds inheritP
A gay elastic spiritP
Which rises in the hourQ
Of trial with such powerQ
That men with wonder findR
Sorrow is less unkindR
That human hearts can bearS
All evils but despairS
Or that anticipated griefT
Which for a season mocks reliefT
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Uncertainty still clingsM
To earth's fair but fleeting thingsM
And mortals vainly trustU
In fabrics formed of dustU
We look into life's wasteV
And tread its paths in hasteV
The past for ever flownW
The present scarce our ownW
While cold and dim beforeX
Stretches the shadowy shoreX
The dark futurity which liesY
Beyond the glance of mortal eyesY
Wrapped in the mystic gloomZ
Which canopies the tombZ
But faith can pour a lightA2
On the spirit's earthly nightA2
And break that sullen shroudB2
As a star bursts through the cloudB2
To show the upward eyeC2
The clear but distant skyC2
The land of joy and peaceD2
Where doubts and sorrows ceaseD2

Susanna Moodie



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