Rhymes And Rhythms - Xviii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFEGHIJKEEHJEHJHL FM NOPEQRRSTUVWXRKRHFEH JLYZTo M E H | A |
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When you wake in your crib | B |
You an inch of experience | C |
Vaulted about | D |
With the wonder of darkness | E |
Wailing and striving | F |
To reach from your feebleness | E |
Something you feel | G |
Will be good to and cherish you | H |
Something you know | I |
And can rest upon blindly | J |
O then a hand | K |
Your mother's your mother's | E |
By the fall of its fingers | E |
All knowledge all power to you | H |
Out of the dreary | J |
Discouraging strangenesses | E |
Comes to and masters you | H |
Takes you and lovingly | J |
Woos you and soothes you | H |
Back as you cling to it | L |
Back to some comforting | F |
Corner of sleep | M |
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So you wake in your bed | N |
Having lived having loved | O |
But the shadows are there | P |
And the world and its kingdoms | E |
Incredibly faded | Q |
And you grope in the Terror | R |
Above you and under | R |
For the light for the warmth | S |
The assurance of life | T |
But the blasts are ice born | U |
And your heart is nigh burst | V |
With the weight of the gloom | W |
And the stress of your strangled | X |
And desperate endeavour | R |
Sudden a hand | K |
Mother O Mother | R |
God at His best to you | H |
Out of the roaring | F |
Impossible silences | E |
Falls on and urges you | H |
Mightily tenderly | J |
Forth as you clutch at it | L |
Forth to the infinite | Y |
Peace of the Grave | Z |
William Ernest Henley
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