Maud: A Monodrama (part Ii, Excerpt) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E F G H I F H J J B J K J L M J M N M O F O P O P F O Q R S R Q Q P S Q P Q P S T U V V U T J U T J U T E W C W C W X Y Z X Y Z A2 B2 C2 D2 B2 E2 B2 J X F2 X G2 X H2 I2 Q J2 H2 H2 H2 H2 K2 K2 J K2 K2 J L2 L2 L2 JA | |
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O that 'twere possible | B |
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After long grief and pain | C |
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To find the arms of my true love | D |
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Round me once again | E |
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When I was wont to meet her | F |
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In the silent woody places | G |
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By the home that gave me birth | H |
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We stood tranced in long embraces | I |
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Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter | F |
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Than anything on earth | H |
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A shadow flits before me | J |
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Not thou but like to thee | J |
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Ah Christ that it were possible | B |
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For one short hour to see | J |
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The souls we loved that they might tell us | K |
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What and where they be | J |
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It leads me forth at evening | L |
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It lightly winds and steals | M |
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In a cold white robe before me | J |
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When all my spirit reels | M |
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At the shouts the leagues of lights | N |
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And the roaring of the wheels | M |
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Half the night I waste in sighs | O |
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Half in dreams I sorrow after | F |
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The delight of early skies | O |
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In a wakeful doze I sorrow | P |
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For the hand the lips the eyes | O |
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For the meeting of the morrow | P |
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The delight of happy laughter | F |
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The delight of low replies | O |
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'Tis a morning pure and sweet | Q |
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And a dewy splendour falls | R |
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On the little flower that clings | S |
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To the turrets and the walls | R |
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'Tis a morning pure and sweet | Q |
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And the light and shadow fleet | Q |
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She is walking in the meadow | P |
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And the woodland echo rings | S |
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In a moment we shall meet | Q |
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She is singing in the meadow | P |
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And the rivulet at her feet | Q |
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Ripples on in light and shadow | P |
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To the ballad that she sings | S |
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So I hear her sing as of old | T |
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My bird with the shining head | U |
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My own dove with the tender eye | V |
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But there rings on a sudden a passionate cry | V |
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There is some one dying or dead | U |
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And a sullen thunder is roll'd | T |
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For a tumult shakes the city | J |
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And I wake my dream is fled | U |
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In the shuddering dawn behold | T |
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Without knowledge without pity | J |
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By the curtains of my bed | U |
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That abiding phantom cold | T |
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Get thee hence nor come again | E |
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Mix not memory with doubt | W |
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Pass thou deathlike type of pain | C |
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Pass and cease to move about | W |
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'Tis the blot upon the brain | C |
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That will show itself without | W |
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Then I rise the eave drops fall | X |
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And the yellow vapours choke | Y |
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The great city sounding wide | Z |
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The day comes a dull red ball | X |
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Wrapt in drifts of lurid smoke | Y |
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On the misty river tide | Z |
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Thro' the hubbub of the market | A2 |
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I steal a wasted frame | B2 |
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It crosses here it crosses there | C2 |
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Thro' all that crowd confused and loud | D2 |
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The shadow still the same | B2 |
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And on my heavy eyelids | E2 |
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My anguish hangs like shame | B2 |
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Alas for her that met me | J |
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That heard me softly call | X |
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Came glimmering thro' the laurels | F2 |
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At the quiet evenfall | X |
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In the garden by the turrets | G2 |
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Of the old manorial hall | X |
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Would the happy spirit descend | H2 |
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From the realms of light and song | I2 |
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In the chamber or the street | Q |
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As she looks among the blest | J2 |
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Should I fear to greet my friend | H2 |
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Or to say quot Forgive the wrong quot | H2 |
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Or to ask her quot Take me sweet | H2 |
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To the regions of thy rest quot | H2 |
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But the broad light glares and beats | K2 |
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And the shadow flits and fleets | K2 |
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And will not let me be | J |
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And I loathe the squares and streets | K2 |
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And the faces that one meets | K2 |
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Hearts with no love for me | J |
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Always I long to creep | L2 |
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Into some still cavern deep | L2 |
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There to weep and weep and weep | L2 |
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My whole soul out to thee | J |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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