A Voice From The Dungeon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFGH IIHH JJII KKLL HHMM NNHH OOPP QQHH RRSS HHTT UUDDVW X| I'm buried now I've done with life | A |
| I've done with hate revenge and strife | A |
| I've done with joy and hope and love | B |
| And all the bustling world above | B |
| Long have I dwelt forgotten here | C |
| In pining woe and dull despair | D |
| This place of solitude and gloom | E |
| Must be my dungeon and my tomb | E |
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| No hope no pleasure can I find | F |
| I am grown weary of my mind | F |
| Often in balmy sleep I try | G |
| To gain a rest from misery | H |
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| And in one hour of calm repose | I |
| To find a respite from my woes | I |
| But dreamless sleep is not for me | H |
| And I am still in misery | H |
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| I dream of liberty 'tis true | J |
| But then I dream of sorrow too | J |
| Of blood and guilt and horrid woes | I |
| Of tortured friends and happy foes | I |
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| I dream about the world but then | K |
| I dream of fiends instead of men | K |
| Each smiling hope so quickly fades | L |
| And such a lurid gloom pervades | L |
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| That world that when I wake and see | H |
| Those dreary phantoms fade and flee | H |
| Even in my dungeon I can smile | M |
| And taste of joy a little while | M |
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| And yet it is not always so | N |
| I dreamt a little while ago | N |
| That all was as it used to be | H |
| A fresh free wind passed over me | H |
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| It was a pleasant summer's day | O |
| The sun shone forth with cheering ray | O |
| Methought a little lovely child | P |
| Looked up into my face and smiled | P |
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| My heart was full I wept for joy | Q |
| It was my own my darling boy | Q |
| I clasped him to my breast and he | H |
| Kissed me and laughed in childish glee | H |
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| Just them I heard in whisper sweet | R |
| A well known voice my name repeat | R |
| His father stood before my eyes | S |
| I gazed at him in mute surprise | S |
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| I thought he smiled and spoke to me | H |
| But still in silent ecstasy | H |
| I gazed at him I could not speak | T |
| I uttered one long piercing shriek | T |
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| Alas Alas That cursed scream | U |
| Aroused me from my heavenly dream | U |
| I looked around in wild despair | D |
| I called them but they were not there | D |
| The father and the child are gone | V |
| And I must live and die alone | W |
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| Marina Sabia | X |
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