Blessed Are They That Mourn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHGH IEJC KLKL MNMI| Oh deem not they are blest alone | A |
| Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep | B |
| The Power who pities man has shown | A |
| A blessing for the eyes that weep | B |
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| The light of smiles shall fill again | C |
| The lids that overflow with tears | D |
| And weary hours of woe and pain | E |
| Are promises of happier years | F |
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| There is a day of sunny rest | G |
| For every dark and troubled night | H |
| And grief may bide an evening guest | G |
| But joy shall come with early light | H |
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| And thou who o'er thy friend's low bier | I |
| Sheddest the bitter drops like rain | E |
| Hope that a brighter happier sphere | J |
| Will give him to thy arms again | C |
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| Nor let the good man's trust depart | K |
| Though life its common gifts deny | L |
| Though with a pierced and broken heart | K |
| And spurned of men he goes to die | L |
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| For God has marked each sorrowing day | M |
| And numbered every secret tear | N |
| And heaven's long age of bliss shall pay | M |
| For all his children suffer here | I |
William Cullen Bryant
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