To Cara, After An Interval Of Absence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ RERE STSU| Concealed within the shady wood | A |
| A mother left her sleeping child | B |
| And flew to cull her rustic food | C |
| The fruitage of the forest wild | B |
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| But storms upon her pathway rise | D |
| The mother roams astray and weeping | E |
| Far from the weak appealing cries | D |
| Of him she left so sweetly sleeping | E |
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| She hopes she fears a light is seen | F |
| And gentler blows the night wind's breath | G |
| Yet no 'tis gone the storms are keen | F |
| The infant may be chilled to death | G |
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| Perhaps even now in darkness shrouded | H |
| His little eyes lie cold and still | I |
| And yet perhaps they are not clouded | H |
| Life and love may light them still | I |
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| Thus Cara at our last farewell | J |
| When fearful even thy hand to touch | K |
| I mutely asked those eyes to tell | J |
| If parting pained thee half so much | K |
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| I thought and oh forgive the thought | L |
| For none was e'er by love inspired | M |
| Whom fancy had not also taught | L |
| To hope the bliss his soul desired | M |
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| Yes I did think in Cara's mind | N |
| Though yet to that sweet mind unknown | O |
| I left one infant wish behind | N |
| One feeling which I called my own | O |
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| Oh blest though but in fancy blest | P |
| How did I ask of Pity's care | Q |
| To shield and strengthen in thy breast | P |
| The nursling I had cradled there | Q |
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| And many an hour beguiled by pleasure | R |
| And many an hour of sorrow numbering | E |
| I ne'er forgot the new born treasure | R |
| I left within thy bosom slumbering | E |
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| Perhaps indifference has not chilled it | S |
| Haply it yet a throb may give | T |
| Yet no perhaps a doubt has killed it | S |
| Say dearest does the feeling live | U |
Thomas Moore
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