Happiness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIH JKLK MNLN OPQP HRST FUVU OWTW XGYG ZUA2U VB2VB2 VB2A2B2| Fair Happiness I've courted thee | A |
| And used each cunning art and wile | B |
| Which lovers use with maidens coy | C |
| To win one tender glance or smile | B |
| Thou hast been coy as any maid | D |
| So lofty distant stern and cold | E |
| And guarded from a touch of mine | F |
| As miser guards his precious gold | E |
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| To win a smile from thee did seem | G |
| A painful fruitless thing to try | H |
| Thy scornful thin and cruel lips | I |
| No pity gave thy steely eye | H |
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| Thy countenance so sternly set | J |
| Did seem to say how vain to knock | K |
| At thy heart's door for all within | L |
| Was hard as adamantine rock | K |
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| Thus unto me thy visage seem'd | M |
| But faces do not always tell | N |
| The feelings of the heart within | L |
| Or thoughts that underneath them dwell | N |
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| For e'en at times I saw thy face | O |
| Relax and look with pity down | P |
| On struggling weary mortals here | Q |
| Without one scornful glance or frown | P |
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| At times I've seen thy steely eye | H |
| Sheath'd with a look of tender love | R |
| As if thou saw our mortal woes | S |
| And fain would help but dare not move | T |
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| As if some higher power than thine | F |
| Directed all things here below | U |
| And for some wise and happy end | V |
| Let struggling mortals suffer woe | U |
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| Except at times when from thy face | O |
| A cheerful light is shed on men | W |
| And when withdrawn within thyself | T |
| We hopeful watch for it again | W |
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| Such is the happiness of earth | X |
| A sudden light a glancing beam | G |
| Which cheers us in our lonely bark | Y |
| Upon times dark relentless stream | G |
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| The stormy waves roll darkling on | Z |
| And with the current we must go | U |
| Perchance to meet some cheerful beams | A2 |
| Of happiness amid our woe | U |
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| But if we guide our bark aright | V |
| And guard the precious tenant there | B2 |
| We soon shall reach a sea of light | V |
| From this dark troubl'd stream of care | B2 |
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| Then may we never let the shade | V |
| Of bitter trouble and despair | B2 |
| Hide from our eyes the happy gleams | A2 |
| Which even we at times may share | B2 |
Thomas Frederick Young
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