Anticipation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLL MMNNNOOPPQQFFRIR'Coming events cast their shadow before ' | A |
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I had a vision in the summer light | B |
Sorrow was in it and my inward sight | B |
Ached with sad images The touch of tears | C |
Gushed down my cheeks the figured woes of years | D |
Casting their shadows across sunny hours | E |
Oh there was nothing sorrowful in flowers | E |
Wooing the glances of an April sun | F |
Or apple blossoms opening one by one | F |
Their crimson bosoms or the twittered words | G |
And warbled sentences of merry birds | G |
Or the small glitter and the humming wings | H |
Of golden flies and many colored things | H |
Oh these were nothing sad nor to see Her | I |
Sitting beneath the comfortable stir | I |
Of early leaves casting the playful grace | J |
Of moving shadows in so fair a face | J |
Nor in her brow serene nor in the love | K |
Of her mild eyes drinking the light above | K |
With a long thirst nor in her gentle smile | L |
Nor in her hand that shone blood red the while | L |
She raised it in the sun All these were dear | M |
To heart and eye but an invisible fear | M |
Shook in the trees and chilled upon the air | N |
And if one spot was laughing brightest there | N |
My soul most sank and darkened in despair | N |
As if the shadows of a curtained room | O |
Haunted me in the sun as if the bloom | O |
Of early flow'rets had no sweets for me | P |
Nor apple blossoms any blush to see | P |
As if the hour had brought too bright a day | Q |
And little birds were all too gay too gay | Q |
As if the beauty of that Lovely One | F |
Were all a fable Full before the sun | F |
Stood Death and cast a shadow long before | R |
Like a dark pall enshrouding her all o'er | I |
Till eyes and lips and smiles were all no more | R |
Thomas Hood
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