Blind Mary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFBB G HHII| Air Blind Mary | A |
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| There flows from her spirit such love and delight | B |
| That the face of Blind Mary is radiant with light | B |
| As the gleam from a homestead through darkness will show | C |
| Or the moon glimmer soft through the fast falling snow | C |
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| Yet there's a keen sorrow comes o'er her at times | D |
| As an Indian might feel in our northerly climes | D |
| And she talks of the sunset like parting of friends | E |
| And the starlight as love that not changes nor ends | E |
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| Ah grieve not sweet maiden for star or for sun | F |
| For the mountains that tower or the rivers that run | F |
| For beauty and grandeur and glory and light | B |
| Are seen by the spirit and not by the sight | B |
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| IV | G |
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| In vain for the thoughtless are sunburst and shade | H |
| In vain for the heartless flowers blossom and fade | H |
| While the darkness that seems your sweet being to bound | I |
| Is one of the guardians an Eden around | I |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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