To Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDDCEFEFGGFHHII HHBBBAIAIAJKJLKLIIMN OPHHQQHEHEEHRHRSSHEH EE| Oh take young Seraph take thy harp | A |
| And play to me so cheerily | B |
| For grief is dark and care is sharp | A |
| And life wears on so wearily | B |
| Oh take thy harp | A |
| Oh sing as thou wert wont to do | C |
| When all youth's sunny season long | D |
| I sat and listened to thy song | D |
| And yet 'twas ever ever new | C |
| With magic in its heaven tuned string | E |
| The future bliss thy constant theme | F |
| Oh then each little woe took wing | E |
| Away like phantoms of a dream | F |
| As if each sound | G |
| That flutter'd round | G |
| Had floated over Lethe's stream | F |
| By all those bright and happy hours | H |
| We spent in life's sweet eastern bow'rs | H |
| Where thou wouldst sit and smile and show | I |
| Ere buds were come where flowers would blow | I |
| And oft anticipate the rise | H |
| Of life's warm sun that scaled the skies | H |
| By many a story of love and glory | B |
| And friendships promised oft to me | B |
| By all the faith I lent to thee | B |
| Oh take young Seraph take thy harp | A |
| And play to me so cheerily | I |
| For grief is dark and care is sharp | A |
| And life wears on so wearily | I |
| Oh take thy harp | A |
| Perchance the strings will sound less clear | J |
| That long have lain neglected by | K |
| In sorrow's misty atmosphere | J |
| It ne'er may speak as it hath spoken | L |
| Such joyous notes so brisk and high | K |
| But are its golden chords all broken | L |
| Are there not some though weak and low | I |
| To play a lullaby to woe | I |
| But thou canst sing of love no more | M |
| For Celia show'd that dream was vain | N |
| And many a fancied bliss is o'er | O |
| That comes not e'en in dreams again | P |
| Alas alas | H |
| How pleasures pass | H |
| And leave thee now no subject save | Q |
| The peace and bliss beyond the grave | Q |
| Then be thy flight among the skies | H |
| Take then oh take the skylark's wing | E |
| And leave dull earth and heavenward rise | H |
| O'er all its tearful clouds and sing | E |
| On skylark's wing | E |
| Another life spring there adorns | H |
| Another youth without the dread | R |
| Of cruel care whose crown of thorns | H |
| Is here for manhood's aching head | R |
| Oh there are realms of welcome day | S |
| A world where tears are wiped away | S |
| Then be thy flight among the skies | H |
| Take then oh take the skylark's wing | E |
| And leave dull earth and heavenward rise | H |
| O'er all its tearful clouds and sing | E |
| On skylark's wing | E |
Thomas Hood
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