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Julia, Or The Convent Of St. Claire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Stranger that massy mouldering pile	A
Whose ivied ruins load the ground	B
Reechoed once to pious strains	C
By holy sisters breathed around	B
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There many a noble virgin came	D
To bid the world she loved adieu	E
There victim of parental pride	F
To years of hopeless grief withdrew	E
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Yes proud St Claire thy costly walls	G
Have witnessed oft the mourner's pain	H
And hearts in joyless durance bound	B
Which sighed for kindred hearts in vain	H
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But never more within thy cells	I
Shall beauty breathe the fruitless sigh	J
Nor hid beneath the envious veil	K
Shall sorrow dim the sparkling eye	J
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For now a sight by reason blest	L
Thy gloomy dome in ruins falls	G
While bats and screechowls harbour there	M
Sole tenants of thy crumbling walls	G
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And soon blest change as those dread plains	C
Where Etna's burning torrents poured	N
Become when Time its power has shed	O
With softly smiling verdure stored	N
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So when thy darkly frowning towers	P
The verdant plain no longer load	Q
These scenes where sorrow reigned may prove	R
Fond faithful lovers' blest abode	Q
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And they shall pledge the nuptial vow	S
Where once far different vows were heard	T
And where thy pining virgins mourned	U
Shall babes sweet smiling babes be reared	V
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Hail glorious change to Nature dear	W
Methinks I see the bridal throng	X
And hark where lonely sisters prayed	Y
How sweetly swells the social song	X
	-
But nought O nought can her restore	Z
To social life to happy love	A2
Who once amidst thy cloistered train	H
With passion's hopeless sorrow strove	B2
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Lamented maid my faithful Muse	C2
To pity's ear shall tell thy tale	K
Shall tell at midnight's awful hour	D2
Why groaning ghosts affright the vale	K
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On Julia's softly dimpled cheek	E2
Just bloom'd to view youth's opening rose	F2
When proudly stern her father bade	Y
St Claire's dark walls her bloom enclose	F2
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But no reluctance to obey	G2
With tears bedewed her beauteous cheek	E2
Since love with soft persuasive power	D2
Not yet had taught her heart to speak	E2
	-
Yes be a nun's vocation mine	H2
So I my brother's bliss improve	R
His be their wealth sweet Julia cried	F
So I may boast my parent's love	A2
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Proud Clermont blessed his generous child	I2
Her gentler mother dropped a tear	M
As if her boding heart foretold	J2
That love and Julia's woes were near	W
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For lo where glows the nuptial feast	K2
And Clermont's heir leads in his bride	F
While Julia called that feast to grace	L2
Sits by a blooming baron's side	F
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Dear fatal hour the feast is o'er	D2
But still in faithful memory charms	M2
And Julia's conscious heart has learnt	N2
To throb with passion's new alarms	M2
	-
Now then I feel the power of love	A2
She on her sleepless pillow cried	F
Then must I still my sire obey	G2
And this warm heart in cloisters hide	F
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But hold fond girl thy throbbing breast	L
May be with hopeless fondness fraught	O2
Yet sure Montrose's speaking eyes	P2
Declared he felt the love he taught	O2
	-
And well her hopes his glance had read	O
Montrose a mutual passion felt	Q2
Nor long his tender pangs concealed	R2
But at her feet impassioned knelt	Q2
	-
Her downcast eye her blush her smile	A
To crown her lover's suit conspired	T
Who bold in hope to Clermont told	J2
The artless wish by fondness fired	T
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But told in vain Away he cried	F
O'er me your pleadings boast no power	D2
Think not my son his rights shall yield	R2
To swell my pining daughter's dower	S2
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No let his rights still sacred be	T2
Montrose with throbbing heart replied	F
Give me but Julia's willing hand	U2
I ask I wish for nought beside	F
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And darest thou think that Clermont's child	I2
Shall e'er pronounce the nuptial vow	S
Unless he said I could a dower	S2
Equal to Clermont's rank bestow	V2
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Away young lord entreat no more	Z
Nor thus with vain complainings mourn	W2
For ere tomorrow's sun has set	X2
My child shall to her cell return	Y2
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He spoke and frown'd Alas Montrose	F2
In vain thy manly bosom mourned	U
For ere tomorrow's sun had set	X2
Thy Julia to her cell returned	Z2
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But changed indeed Youth's opening rose	F2
Now on her cheek no longer glowed	Q
And now with earthly cares opprest	Q
Before the holy shrine she bowed	Q
	-
Now to religion's rites no more	Z
Her heart with ready zeal impelled	Q
No more with genuine fervour warm	A3
Her voice the holy anthem swelled	Q
	-
Whence thy pale cheek and whence my child	Q
Proceeds this change the abbess said	Q
Why heaves thy breast with deep drawn sighs	P2
And wherefore droops thy youthful head	Q
	-
Yes you shall know the sufferer cried	Q
And let my fate your pity move	R
See Passion's victim Morn and eve	B3
This struggling soul is lost in love	A2
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And I yon sacred shrine profane	H
The cross with languid zeal I press	C3
Montrose's image claims the vows	D3
Which my false lips to Heaven address	C3
	-
Yes while I drop the sacred bead	Q
His form obtrudes upon my view	E
And love's warm tears my rosary wet	Q
Love claims the sigh devotion's due	E
	-
Inhuman Father wilt thou risk	E3
My peace on earth and hopes of heaven	F3
Tremble tyrannic parent think	G3
What love may do to madness driven	F3
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With pitying heart the abbess heard	Q
For she an answering pang had known	H3
And well her gentle soul could mourn	W2
A fate a grief so like her own	H3
	-
But why despair my child she said	Q
Before thy father lowly kneel	I3
And teach that heart though fenced by pride	Q
Compassion's generous throb to feel	I3
	-
Julia the kind advice obeyed	Q
And when the haughty Clermont came	D
Before his feet she lowly knelt	Q
And hailed him by a parent's name	D
	-
Think'st thou to wrong thy brother's rights	J3
I e'er can be by thee beguiled	Q
Father her trembling lips replied	Q
Say is not Julia too your child	Q
	-
For him you bid the nuptial feast	Q
And all life's dearest blessings glow	V2
While I alike your child you doom	K3
To hopeless love and lonely woe	V2
	-
But vain remonstrance tears and prayers	L3
The Count's proud heart could all deride	Q
For Nature's voice can never melt	Q
The callous bosom fenced by pride	Q
	-
Urge me no more he fiercely said	Q
But know not long these prayers can last	Q
Reflect fond girl at morning's dawn	M3
The year of thy probation's past	Q
	-
Pale pale grew then her youthful cheek	E2
Heart piercing seemed her mournful cry	J
Clermont relent her mother cried	Q
Nor coldly doom thy child to die	J
	-
But vain was Julia's piercing shriek	E2
Nor justice he nor mercy knew	E
Receive he said my last embrace	L2
Then from the mournful scene withdrew	E
	-
Loud called the evening bell to prayers	L3
But still on Julia vainly called	Q
Who leaning on her mother's breast	Q
With desperate words that breast appalled	Q
	-
Suppress suppress thy grief my child	Q
Or fear to call dread vengeance down	N3
Wouldst thou not tremble impious girl	O3
Before thy God's avenging frown	N3
	-
Paint not that gracious God in frowns	P3
Did not for us a Saviour bleed	Q
In mercy clothe his awful power	D2
For I shall soon that mercy need	Q
	-
Dark cheerless awful is the night	Q
When tempests load the troubled air	M
But darker gloomier is the mind	Q
Where reigns the ghastly fiend Despair	M
	-
Fond mother in thy Julia's eyes	P2
Canst thou not see his reign is near	W
Inhuman father hark loud groans	Q3
Shall swell the blast Beware beware	M
	-
Mother the hour commands thee hence	R3
Sad Julia cried we now must part	Q
And never may thy bosom know	V2
A grief like that which rends my heart	Q
	-
In all thy prayers tonight for me	T2
The awful throne of Heaven address	C3
While I with grateful bosom kneel	I3
And bid its power thy goodness bless	C3
	-
Speechless the mourning mother heard	Q
Her tongue denied the word 'farewell '	-
At length her quivering lips she pressed	Q
And Julia hurried to her cell	S3
	-
Now chill and loud the North wind blew	E
Through the long aisles hoarse murmurs ran	T3
The shuddering sisters' cheeks were pale	K
When they their midnight tasks began	T3
	-
Mock'd by deep groans each anthem seemed	Q
The vaulted roofs still gloomier grew	E
The blast of night was swelled by shrieks	U3
The bird of night ill omened flew	E
	-
The trembling tapers grew more pale	K
While where their languid radiance fell	S3
A phantom dimly seemed to glide	Q
And loud was heard the passing bell	S3
	-
Did you not see a phantom flit	Q
Did you not hear the pass	V3