Blessed Are They That Mourn. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHGH IEJC KLKL MNMIOh 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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