Romney's Remorse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAHIJKLMANOPQR STNACAUUAAAVWXYZUA2I B2MAC2URPMCD2E2F2RAD 2 PUG2 BAZC VH2I2J2K2H2HCL2UM2AU N2O2XIA2SHAAP2Q2R2AU NAS2Q2T2CU2U2U2 AAAA D2H2V2H2H2H2 BW2AH2X2Y2Y2Z2VAA3H2 B3UX2C3D3AE3XV2I2F3A I2AH2G3H3I3I2J3D3SI2 AAUK3 I2ASL3I2M3I2CK3AAN3I 2'BEAT little heart I give you this and this' | A |
Who are you What the Lady Hamilton | B |
Good I am never weary painting you | C |
To sit once more Cassandra Hebe Joan | D |
Or spinning at your wheel beside the vine | E |
Bacchante what you will and if I fail | F |
To conjure and concentrate into form | G |
And colour all you are the fault is less | A |
In me than Art What Artist ever yet | H |
Could make pure light live on the canvas Art | I |
Why should I so disrelish that short word | J |
Where am I snow on all the hills so hot | K |
So fever'd never colt would more delight | L |
To roll himself in meadow grass than I | M |
To wallow in that winter of the hills | A |
Nurse were you hired or came of your own will | N |
To wait on one so broken so forlorn | O |
Have I not met you somewhere long ago | P |
I am all but sure I have in Kendal church | Q |
O yes I hired you for a season there | R |
And then we parted but you look so kind | S |
That you will not deny my sultry throat | T |
One draught of icy water There you spill | N |
The drops upon my forehead Your hand shakes | A |
I am ashamed I am a trouble to you | C |
Could kneel for your forgiveness Are they tears | A |
For me they do me too much grace for me | U |
O Mary Mary | U |
Vexing you with words | A |
Words only born of fever or the fumes | A |
Of that dark opiate dose you gave me words | A |
Wild babble I have stumbled back again | V |
Into the common clay the sounder self | W |
God stay me there if only for your sake | X |
The truest kindliest noblest hearted wife | Y |
That ever wore a Christian marriage ring | Z |
My curse upon the Master's apothegm | U |
That wife and children drag an Artist down | A2 |
This seem'd my lodestar in the Heaven of Art | I |
And lured me from the household fire on earth | B2 |
To you my days have been a life long lie | M |
Grafted on half a truth and tho' you say | A |
'Take comfort you have won the Painter's fame ' | C2 |
The best in me that sees the worst in me | U |
And groans to see it finds no comfort there | R |
What fame I am not Rapha l Titian no | P |
Nor even a Sir Joshua some will cry | M |
Wrong there The painter's fame but mine that grew | C |
Blown into glittering by the popular breath | D2 |
May float awhile beneath the sun may roll | E2 |
The rainbow hues of heaven about it | F2 |
There | R |
The colour'd bubble bursts above the abyss | A |
Of Darkness utter Lethe | D2 |
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Is it so | P |
Her sad eyes plead for my own fame with me | U |
To make it dearer | G2 |
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Look the sun has risen | B |
To flame along another dreary day | A |
Your hand How bright you keep your marriage ring | Z |
Raise me I thank you | C |
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Has your opiate then | V |
Bred this black mood or am I conscious more | H2 |
Than other Masters of the chasm between | I2 |
Work and Ideal Or does the gloom of Age | J2 |
And suffering cloud the height I stand upon | K2 |
Even from myself stand stood no more | H2 |
And yet | H |
The world would lose if such a wife as you | C |
Should vanish unrecorded Might I crave | L2 |
One favour I am bankrupt of all claim | U |
On your obedience and my strongest wish | M2 |
Falls flat before your least unwillingness | A |
Still would you if it please you sit to me | U |
I dream'd last night of that clear summer noon | N2 |
When seated on a rock and foot to foot | O2 |
With your own shadow in the placid lake | X |
You claspt our infant daughter heart to heart | I |
I had been among the hills and brought you down | A2 |
A length of staghorn moss and this you twined | S |
About her cap I see the picture yet | H |
Mother and child A sound from far away | A |
No louder than a bee among the flowers | A |
A fall of water lull'd the noon asleep | P2 |
You still'd it for the moment with a song | Q2 |
Which often echo'd in me while I stood | R2 |
Before the great Madonna masterpieces | A |
Of ancient Art in Paris or in Rome | U |
Mary my crayons if I can I will | N |
You should have been I might have made you once | A |
Had I but known you as I know you now | S2 |
The true Alcestis of the time Your song | Q2 |
Sit listen I remember it a proof | T2 |
That I even I at times remember'd you | C |
'Beat upon mine little heart beat beat | U2 |
Beat upon mine you are mine my sweet | U2 |
All mine from your pretty blue eyes to your feet | U2 |
My sweet ' | - |
Less profile turn to me three quarter face | A |
'Sleep little blossom my honey my bliss | A |
For I give you this and I give you this | A |
And I blind your pretty blue eyes with a kiss | A |
Sleep ' | - |
Too early blinded by the kiss of death | D2 |
'Father and Mother will watch you grow' | H2 |
You watch'd not I she did not grow she died | V2 |
'Father and Mother will watch you grow | H2 |
And gather the roses whenever they blow | H2 |
And find the white heather wherever you go | H2 |
My sweet ' | - |
Ah my white heather only blooms in heaven | B |
With Milton's amaranth There there there a child | W2 |
Had shamed me at it Down you idle tools | A |
Stampt into dust tremulous all awry | H2 |
Blurr'd like a landskip in a ruffled pool | X2 |
Not one stroke firm This Art that harlot like | Y2 |
Seduced me from you leaves me harlot like | Y2 |
Who love her still and whimper impotent | Z2 |
To win her back before I die and then | V |
Then in the loud world's bastard judgment day | A |
One truth will damn me with the mindless mob | A3 |
Who feel no touch of my temptation more | H2 |
Than all the myriad lies that blacken round | B3 |
The corpse of every man that gains a name | U |
'This model husband this fine Artist' Fool | X2 |
What matters Six foot deep of burial mould | C3 |
Will dull their comments Ay but when the shout | D3 |
Of His descending peals from Heaven and throbs | A |
Thro' earth and all her graves if He should ask | E3 |
'Why left you wife and children for my sake | X |
According to my word ' and I replied | V2 |
'Nay Lord for Art ' why that would sound so mean | I2 |
That all the dead who wait the doom of Hell | F3 |
For bolder sins than mine adulteries | A |
Wife murders nay the ruthless Mussulman | I2 |
Who flings his bowstrung Harem in the sea | A |
Would turn and glare at me and point and jeer | H2 |
And gibber at the worm who living made | G3 |
The wife of wives a widow bride and lost | H3 |
Salvation for a sketch | I3 |
I am wild again | I2 |
The coals of fire you heap upon my head | J3 |
Have crazed me Someone knocking there without | D3 |
No Will my Indian brother come to find | S |
Me or my coffin Should I know the man | I2 |
This worn out Reason dying in her house | A |
May leave the windows blinded and if so | A |
Bid him farewell for me and tell him | U |
Hope | K3 |
I hear a death bed Angel whisper 'Hope ' | - |
The miserable have no medicine | I2 |
But only Hope He said it in the play | A |
His crime was of the senses of the mind | S |
Mine worse cold calculated | L3 |
Tell my son | I2 |
O let me lean my head upon your breast | M3 |
'Beat little heart' on this foul brain of mine | I2 |
I once had friends and many none like you | C |
I love you more than when we married Hope | K3 |
O yes I hope or fancy that perhaps | A |
Human forgiveness touches heaven and thence | A |
For you forgive me you are sure of that | N3 |
Reflected sends a light on the forgiven | I2 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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