Severed And Gone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFG HIHI BJBJ KDKD FHFH LILI MMMM BHBH HFHF HBHB MHMH NONO HHHH PHQH OHOH| Severed and gone so many years | A |
| And art thou still so dear to me | B |
| That throbbing heart and burning tears | C |
| Can witness how I cling to thee | B |
| I know that in the narrow tomb | D |
| The form I loved was buried deep | E |
| And left in silence and in gloom | D |
| To slumber out its dreamless sleep | E |
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| I know the corner where it lies | F |
| Is but a dreary place of rest | G |
| The charnel moisture never dries | F |
| From the dark flagstones o'er its breast | G |
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| For there the sunbeams never shine | H |
| Nor ever breathes the freshening air | I |
| But not for this do I repine | H |
| For my beloved is not there | I |
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| O no I do not think of thee | B |
| As festering there in slow decay | J |
| 'Tis this sole thought oppresses me | B |
| That thou art gone so far away | J |
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| For ever gone for I by night | K |
| Have prayed within my silent room | D |
| That Heaven would grant a burst of light | K |
| Its cheerless darkness to illume | D |
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| And give thee to my longing eyes | F |
| A moment as thou shinest now | H |
| Fresh from thy mansion in the skies | F |
| With all its glories on thy brow | H |
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| Wild was the wish intense the gaze | L |
| I fixed upon the murky air | I |
| Expecting half a kindling blaze | L |
| Would strike my raptured vision there | I |
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| A shape these human nerves would thrill | M |
| A majesty that might appal | M |
| Did not thy earthly likeness still | M |
| Gleam softly gladly through it all | M |
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| False hope vain prayer it might not be | B |
| That thou shouldst visit earth again | H |
| I called on Heaven I called on thee | B |
| And watched and waited all in vain | H |
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| Had I one shining tress of thine | H |
| How it would bless these longing eyes | F |
| Or if thy pictured form were mine | H |
| What gold should rob me of the prize | F |
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| A few cold words on yonder stone | H |
| A corpse as cold as they can be | B |
| Vain words and mouldering dust alone | H |
| Can this be all that's left of thee | B |
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| O no thy spirit lingers still | M |
| Where'er thy sunny smile was seen | H |
| There's less of darkness less of chill | M |
| On earth than if thou hadst not been | H |
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| Thou breathest in my bosom yet | N |
| And dwellest in my beating heart | O |
| And while I cannot quite forget | N |
| Thou darling canst not quite depart | O |
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| Though freed from sin and grief and pain | H |
| Thou drinkest now the bliss of Heaven | H |
| Thou didst not visit earth in vain | H |
| And from us yet thou art not riven | H |
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| Life seems more sweet that thou didst live | P |
| And men more true that thou wert one | H |
| Nothing is lost that thou didst give | Q |
| Nothing destroyed that thou hast done | H |
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| Earth hath received thine earthly part | O |
| Thine heavenly flame has heavenward flown | H |
| But both still linger in my heart | O |
| Still live and not in mine alone | H |
Anne Bronta
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