Uncertainty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNOPPQQRRSSTT MMUUVVWWXXYYZZA2A2B2 B2C2C2D2D2| Oh dread uncertainty | A |
| Life wasting agony | A |
| How dost thou pain the heart | B |
| Causing such tears to start | B |
| As sorrow never shed | C |
| O'er hopes for ever fled | C |
| For memory hoards up joy | D |
| Beyond Time's dull alloy | D |
| Pleasures that once have been | E |
| Shed light upon the scene | F |
| As setting suns fling back | G |
| A bright and glowing track | G |
| To show they once have cast | H |
| A glory o'er the past | H |
| But thou tormenting fiend | I |
| Beneath Hope's pinions screened | I |
| Leagued with distrust and pain | J |
| Makest her promise vain | J |
| Weaving in life's fair crown | K |
| Thistles instead of down | K |
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| Who would not rather know | L |
| Present than coming woe | L |
| For certain sorrow brings | M |
| A healing in its wings | M |
| The softening touch of years | N |
| Still dries the mourner's tears | O |
| For human minds inherit | P |
| A gay elastic spirit | P |
| Which rises in the hour | Q |
| Of trial with such power | Q |
| That men with wonder find | R |
| Sorrow is less unkind | R |
| That human hearts can bear | S |
| All evils but despair | S |
| Or that anticipated grief | T |
| Which for a season mocks relief | T |
| - | |
| Uncertainty still clings | M |
| To earth's fair but fleeting things | M |
| And mortals vainly trust | U |
| In fabrics formed of dust | U |
| We look into life's waste | V |
| And tread its paths in haste | V |
| The past for ever flown | W |
| The present scarce our own | W |
| While cold and dim before | X |
| Stretches the shadowy shore | X |
| The dark futurity which lies | Y |
| Beyond the glance of mortal eyes | Y |
| Wrapped in the mystic gloom | Z |
| Which canopies the tomb | Z |
| But faith can pour a light | A2 |
| On the spirit's earthly night | A2 |
| And break that sullen shroud | B2 |
| As a star bursts through the cloud | B2 |
| To show the upward eye | C2 |
| The clear but distant sky | C2 |
| The land of joy and peace | D2 |
| Where doubts and sorrows cease | D2 |
Susanna Moodie
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