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 HamiltonB
Good I am never weary painting youC
To sit once more Cassandra Hebe JoanD
Or spinning at your wheel beside the vineE
Bacchante what you will and if I failF
To conjure and concentrate into formG
And colour all you are the fault is lessA
In me than Art What Artist ever yetH
Could make pure light live on the canvas ArtI
Why should I so disrelish that short wordJ
Where am I snow on all the hills so hotK
So fever'd never colt would more delightL
To roll himself in meadow grass than IM
To wallow in that winter of the hillsA
Nurse were you hired or came of your own willN
To wait on one so broken so forlornO
Have I not met you somewhere long agoP
I am all but sure I have in Kendal churchQ
O yes I hired you for a season thereR
And then we parted but you look so kindS
That you will not deny my sultry throatT
One draught of icy water There you spillN
The drops upon my forehead Your hand shakesA
I am ashamed I am a trouble to youC
Could kneel for your forgiveness Are they tearsA
For me they do me too much grace for meU
O Mary MaryU
Vexing you with wordsA
Words only born of fever or the fumesA
Of that dark opiate dose you gave me wordsA
Wild babble I have stumbled back againV
Into the common clay the sounder selfW
God stay me there if only for your sakeX
The truest kindliest noblest hearted wifeY
That ever wore a Christian marriage ringZ
My curse upon the Master's apothegmU
That wife and children drag an Artist downA2
This seem'd my lodestar in the Heaven of ArtI
And lured me from the household fire on earthB2
To you my days have been a life long lieM
Grafted on half a truth and tho' you sayA
'Take comfort you have won the Painter's fame 'C2
The best in me that sees the worst in meU
And groans to see it finds no comfort thereR
What fame I am not Rapha l Titian noP
Nor even a Sir Joshua some will cryM
Wrong there The painter's fame but mine that grewC
Blown into glittering by the popular breathD2
May float awhile beneath the sun may rollE2
The rainbow hues of heaven about itF2
ThereR
The colour'd bubble bursts above the abyssA
Of Darkness utter LetheD2
-
Is it soP
Her sad eyes plead for my own fame with meU
To make it dearerG2
-
Look the sun has risenB
To flame along another dreary dayA
Your hand How bright you keep your marriage ringZ
Raise me I thank youC
-
Has your opiate thenV
Bred this black mood or am I conscious moreH2
Than other Masters of the chasm betweenI2
Work and Ideal Or does the gloom of AgeJ2
And suffering cloud the height I stand uponK2
Even from myself stand stood no moreH2
And yetH
The world would lose if such a wife as youC
Should vanish unrecorded Might I craveL2
One favour I am bankrupt of all claimU
On your obedience and my strongest wishM2
Falls flat before your least unwillingnessA
Still would you if it please you sit to meU
I dream'd last night of that clear summer noonN2
When seated on a rock and foot to footO2
With your own shadow in the placid lakeX
You claspt our infant daughter heart to heartI
I had been among the hills and brought you downA2
A length of staghorn moss and this you twinedS
About her cap I see the picture yetH
Mother and child A sound from far awayA
No louder than a bee among the flowersA
A fall of water lull'd the noon asleepP2
You still'd it for the moment with a songQ2
Which often echo'd in me while I stoodR2
Before the great Madonna masterpiecesA
Of ancient Art in Paris or in RomeU
Mary my crayons if I can I willN
You should have been I might have made you onceA
Had I but known you as I know you nowS2
The true Alcestis of the time Your songQ2
Sit listen I remember it a proofT2
That I even I at times remember'd youC
'Beat upon mine little heart beat beatU2
Beat upon mine you are mine my sweetU2
All mine from your pretty blue eyes to your feetU2
My sweet '-
Less profile turn to me three quarter faceA
'Sleep little blossom my honey my blissA
For I give you this and I give you thisA
And I blind your pretty blue eyes with a kissA
Sleep '-
Too early blinded by the kiss of deathD2
'Father and Mother will watch you grow'H2
You watch'd not I she did not grow she diedV2
'Father and Mother will watch you growH2
And gather the roses whenever they blowH2
And find the white heather wherever you goH2
My sweet '-
Ah my white heather only blooms in heavenB
With Milton's amaranth There there there a childW2
Had shamed me at it Down you idle toolsA
Stampt into dust tremulous all awryH2
Blurr'd like a landskip in a ruffled poolX2
Not one stroke firm This Art that harlot likeY2
Seduced me from you leaves me harlot likeY2
Who love her still and whimper impotentZ2
To win her back before I die and thenV
Then in the loud world's bastard judgment dayA
One truth will damn me with the mindless mobA3
Who feel no touch of my temptation moreH2
Than all the myriad lies that blacken roundB3
The corpse of every man that gains a nameU
'This model husband this fine Artist' FoolX2
What matters Six foot deep of burial mouldC3
Will dull their comments Ay but when the shoutD3
Of His descending peals from Heaven and throbsA
Thro' earth and all her graves if He should askE3
'Why left you wife and children for my sakeX
According to my word ' and I repliedV2
'Nay Lord for Art ' why that would sound so meanI2
That all the dead who wait the doom of HellF3
For bolder sins than mine adulteriesA
Wife murders nay the ruthless MussulmanI2
Who flings his bowstrung Harem in the seaA
Would turn and glare at me and point and jeerH2
And gibber at the worm who living madeG3
The wife of wives a widow bride and lostH3
Salvation for a sketchI3
I am wild againI2
The coals of fire you heap upon my headJ3
Have crazed me Someone knocking there withoutD3
No Will my Indian brother come to findS
Me or my coffin Should I know the manI2
This worn out Reason dying in her houseA
May leave the windows blinded and if soA
Bid him farewell for me and tell himU
HopeK3
I hear a death bed Angel whisper 'Hope '-
The miserable have no medicineI2
But only Hope He said it in the playA
His crime was of the senses of the mindS
Mine worse cold calculatedL3
Tell my sonI2
O let me lean my head upon your breastM3
'Beat little heart' on this foul brain of mineI2
I once had friends and many none like youC
I love you more than when we married HopeK3
O yes I hope or fancy that perhapsA
Human forgiveness touches heaven and thenceA
For you forgive me you are sure of thatN3
Reflected sends a light on the forgivenI2

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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