Magdalen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDDEEFFGGHHCIAJ KKKKLLMMNNNAA OOPPGQGQ EERRQS TUUVWXWXYZYZA2WA2WW B2B2C2C2D2KD2KE2E2F2 G2 B2B2H2I2EEFFF| All things I can endure save one | A |
| The bare blank room where is no sun | A |
| The parcelled hours the pallet hard | B |
| The dreary faces here within | C |
| The outer women's cold regard | B |
| The Pastor's iterated sin | C |
| These things could I endure and count | D |
| No overstrain'd unjust amount | D |
| No undue payment for such bliss | E |
| Yea all things bear save only this | E |
| That you who knew what thing would be | F |
| Have wrought this evil unto me | F |
| It is so strange to think on still | G |
| That you that you should do me ill | G |
| Not as one ignorant or blind | H |
| But seeing clearly in your mind | H |
| How this must be which now has been | C |
| Nothing aghast at what was seen | I |
| Now that the tale is told and done | A |
| It is so strange to think upon | J |
| You were so tender with me too | K |
| One summer's night a cold blast blew | K |
| Closer about my throat you drew | K |
| That half slipt shawl of dusky blue | K |
| And once my hand on summer's morn | L |
| I stretched to pluck a rose a thorn | L |
| Struck through the flesh and made it bleed | M |
| A little drop of blood indeed | M |
| Pale grew your cheek you stoopt and bound | N |
| Your handkerchief about the wound | N |
| Your voice came with a broken sound | N |
| With the deep breath your breast was riven | A |
| I wonder did God laugh in Heaven | A |
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| How strange that you should work my woe | O |
| How strange I wonder do you know | O |
| How gladly gladly I had died | P |
| And life was very sweet that tide | P |
| To save you from the least light ill | G |
| How gladly I had borne your pain | Q |
| With one great pulse we seem'd to thrill | G |
| Nay but we thrill'd with pulses twain | Q |
| - | |
| Even if one had told me this | E |
| A poison lurks within your kiss | E |
| Gall that shall turn to night his day | R |
| Thereon I straight had turned away | R |
| Ay tho' my heart had crack'd with pain | Q |
| And never kiss'd your lips again | S |
| - | |
| At night or when the daylight nears | T |
| I hear the other women weep | U |
| My own heart's anguish lies too deep | U |
| For the soft rain and pain of tears | V |
| I think my heart has turn'd to stone | W |
| A dull dead weight that hurts my breast | X |
| Here on my pallet bed alone | W |
| I keep apart from all the rest | X |
| Wide eyed I lie upon my bed | Y |
| I often cannot sleep all night | Z |
| The future and the past are dead | Y |
| There is no thought can bring delight | Z |
| All night I lie and think and think | A2 |
| If my heart were not made of stone | W |
| But flesh and blood it needs must shrink | A2 |
| Before such thoughts Was ever known | W |
| A woman with a heart of stone | W |
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| The doctor says that I shall die | B2 |
| It may be so yet what care I | B2 |
| Endless reposing from the strife | C2 |
| Death do I trust no more than life | C2 |
| For one thing is like one arrayed | D2 |
| And there is neither false nor true | K |
| But in a hideous masquerade | D2 |
| All things dance on the ages through | K |
| And good is evil evil good | E2 |
| Nothing is known or understood | E2 |
| Save only Pain I have no faith | F2 |
| In God or Devil Life or Death | G2 |
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| The doctor says that I shall die | B2 |
| You that I knew in days gone by | B2 |
| I fain would see your face once more | H2 |
| Con well its features o'er and o'er | I2 |
| And touch your hand and feel your kiss | E |
| Look in your eyes and tell you this | E |
| That all is done that I am free | F |
| That you through all eternity | F |
| Have neither part nor lot in me | F |
Amy Levy
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