No Name Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADAD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLML NONO PDPD QLQR SGSG ESES BTBT SGSG| A stone upon her heart and head | A |
| But no name written on that stone | B |
| Sweet neighbours whisper low instead | A |
| This sinner was a loving one Mrs Browning | C |
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| 'Tis a nameless stone that stands at your head | A |
| The gusts in the gloomy gorges whirl | D |
| Brown leaves and red till they cover your bed | A |
| Now I trust that your sleep is a sound one girl | D |
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| I said in my wrath when his shadow cross'd | E |
| From your garden gate to your cottage door | F |
| What does it matter for one soul lost | E |
| Millions of souls have been lost before | F |
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| Yet I warn'd you ah but my words came true | G |
| Perhaps some day you will find him out | H |
| He who was not worthy to loosen your shoe | G |
| Does his conscience therefore prick him I doubt | H |
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| You laughed and were deaf to my warning voice | I |
| Blush'd and were blind to his cloven hoof | J |
| You have had your chance you have taken your choice | I |
| How could I help you standing aloof | J |
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| He has prosper'd well with the world he says | K |
| I am mad if so and if he be sane | L |
| I at least give God thanksgiving and praise | M |
| That there lies between us one difference plain | L |
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| You in your beauty above me bent | N |
| In the pause of a wild west country ball | O |
| Spoke to me touched me without intent | N |
| Made me your servant for once and all | O |
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| Light laughter rippled your rose red lip | P |
| And you swept my cheek with a shining curl | D |
| That stray'd from your shoulder's snowy tip | P |
| Now I pray that your sleep is a sound one girl | D |
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| From a long way off to look at your charms | Q |
| Made my blood run redder in every vein | L |
| And he he has held you long in his arms | Q |
| And has kiss'd you over and over again | R |
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| Is it well that he keeps well out of my way | S |
| If we met he and I we alone we two | G |
| Would I give him one moment's grace to pray | S |
| Not I for the sake of the soul he slew | G |
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| A life like a shuttlecock may be toss'd | E |
| With the hand of fate for a battledore | S |
| But it matters much for your sweet soul lost | E |
| As much as a million souls and more | S |
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| And I know that if here or there alone | B |
| I found him fairly and face to face | T |
| Having slain his body I would slay my own | B |
| That my soul to Satan his soul might chase | T |
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| He hardens his heart in the public way | S |
| Who am I I am but a nameless churl | G |
| But God will put all things straight some day | S |
| Till then may your sleep be a sound one girl | G |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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