To Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDDCEFEFGGFHHII HHBBBAIAIAJKJLKLIIMN OPHHQQHEHEEHRHRSSHEH EEOh 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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