Lines Inscribed On The Wall Of A Dungeon In The Southern P Of I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFG HIHI JEJE KLKL MKNK OEOE PLPL QRQR S| Though not a breath can enter here | A |
| I know the wind blows fresh and free | B |
| I know the sun is shining clear | C |
| Though not a gleam can visit me | B |
| They thought while I in darkness lay | D |
| 'Twere pity that I should not know | E |
| How all the earth is smiling gay | D |
| How fresh the vernal breezes blow | E |
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| They knew such tidings to impart | F |
| Would pierce my weary spirit through | G |
| And could they better read my heart | F |
| They'd tell me she was smiling too | G |
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| They need not for I know it well | H |
| Methinks I see her even now | I |
| No sigh disturbs her bosom's swell | H |
| No shade o'ercasts her angel brow | I |
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| Unmarred by grief her angel voice | J |
| Whence sparkling wit and wisdom flow | E |
| And others in its sound rejoice | J |
| And taste the joys I must not know | E |
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| Drink rapture from her soft dark eye | K |
| And sunshine from her heavenly smile | L |
| On wings of bliss their moments fly | K |
| And I am pining here the while | L |
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| Oh tell me does she never give | M |
| To my distress a single sigh | K |
| She smiles on them but does she grieve | N |
| One moment when they are not by | K |
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| When she beholds the sunny skies | O |
| And feels the wind of heaven blow | E |
| Has she no tear for him that lies | O |
| In dungeon gloom so far below | E |
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| While others gladly round her press | P |
| And at her side their hours beguile | L |
| Has she no sigh for his distress | P |
| Who cannot see a single smile | L |
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| Nor hear one word nor read a line | Q |
| That her beloved hand might write | R |
| Who banished from her face must pine | Q |
| Each day a long and lonely night | R |
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| Alexander April | S |
Anne Bronta
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