Lines Written On Leaving Philadelphia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EAFA GHIH JKJK BLBL AMAM ADAD| Alone by the Schuylkill a wanderer roved | A |
| And bright were its flowery banks to his eye | B |
| But far very far were the friends that he loved | A |
| And he gazed on its flowery banks with a sigh | B |
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| Oh Nature though blessed and bright are thy rays | C |
| O'er the brow of creation enchantingly thrown | D |
| Yet faint are they all to the lustre that plays | C |
| In a smile from the heart that is fondly our own | D |
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| Nor long did the soul of the stranger remain | E |
| Unblest by the smile he had languished to meet | A |
| Though scarce did he hope it would soothe him again | F |
| Till the threshold of home had been pressed by his feet | A |
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| But the lays of his boyhood had stolen to their ear | G |
| And they loved what they knew of so humble a name | H |
| And they told him with flattery welcome and dear | I |
| That they found in his heart something better than fame | H |
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| Nor did woman oh woman Whose form and whose soul | J |
| Are the spell and the life of each path we pursue | K |
| Whether sunned in the tropics or chilled at the pole | J |
| If woman be there there is happiness too | K |
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| Nor did she her enamoring magic deny | B |
| That magic his heart had relinquished so long | L |
| Like eyes he had loved was her eloquent eye | B |
| Like them did it soften and weep at his song | L |
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| Oh blest be the tear and in memory oft | A |
| May its sparkle be shed o'er the wanderer's dream | M |
| Thrice blest be that eye and may passion as soft | A |
| As free from a pang ever mellow its beam | M |
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| The stranger is gone but he will not forget | A |
| When at home he shall talk of the toils he has known | D |
| To tell with a sigh what endearments he met | A |
| As he strayed by the wave of the Schuylkill alone | D |
Thomas Moore
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