Fidelis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE CGHGICCC AEHECJIJ KLKLMENO GPIPCOKO| You have taken back the promise | A |
| That you spoke so long ago | B |
| Taken back the heart you gave me | C |
| I must even let it go | B |
| Where Love once has breathed Pride dieth | D |
| So I struggled but in vain | E |
| First to keep the links together | F |
| Then to piece the broken chain | E |
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| But it might not be so freely | C |
| All your friendship I restore | G |
| And the heart that I had taken | H |
| As my own forevermore | G |
| No shade of reproach shall touch you | I |
| Dread no more a claim from me | C |
| But I will not have you fancy | C |
| That I count myself as free | C |
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| I am bound by the old promise | A |
| What can break that golden chain | E |
| Not even the words that you have spoken | H |
| Or the sharpness of my pain | E |
| Do you think because you fail me | C |
| And draw back your hand today | J |
| That from out the heart I gave you | I |
| My strong love can fade away | J |
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| It will live No eyes may see it | K |
| In my soul it will lie deep | L |
| Hidden from all but I shall feel it | K |
| Often stirring in its sleep | L |
| So remember that the friendship | M |
| Which you now think poor and vain | E |
| Will endure in hope and patience | N |
| Till you ask for it again | O |
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| Perhaps in some long twilight hour | G |
| Like those we have known of old | P |
| When past shadows gather round you | I |
| And your present friends grow cold | P |
| You may stretch your hands out towards me | C |
| Ahl You will I know not when | O |
| I shall nurse my love and keep it | K |
| Faithfully for you till then | O |
Adelaide Anne Procter
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