The Parting (2) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFE GGHHII JKILMMNOPOLQLQ KRLSOOTU VKV WIWIXSF YZA2ZB2B2C2C2IID2E2F 2E2 G2A | |
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The lady of Alzerno's hall | B |
Is waiting for her lord | C |
The blackbird's song the cuckoo's call | B |
No joy to her afford | C |
She smiles not at the summer's sun | D |
Nor at the winter's blast | E |
She mourns that she is still alone | F |
Though three long years have passed | E |
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I knew her when her eye was bright | G |
I knew her when her step was light | G |
And blithesome as a mountain doe's | H |
And when her cheek was like the rose | H |
And when her voice was full and free | I |
And when her smile was sweet to see | I |
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But now the lustre of her eye | J |
So dimmed with many a tear | K |
Her footstep's elasticity | I |
Is tamed with grief and fear | L |
The rose has left her hollow cheeks | M |
In low and mournful tone she speaks | M |
And when she smiles 'tis but a gleam | N |
Of sunshine on a winter's day | O |
That faintly beams through dreary clouds | P |
And in a moment dies away | O |
It does not warm it does not cheer | L |
It makes us sigh for summer days | Q |
When fields are green and skies are clear | L |
And when the sun has kinder rays | Q |
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For three years she has waited there | K |
Still hoping for her lord's return | R |
But vainly she may hope and fear | L |
And vainly watch and weep and mourn | S |
She may wait him till her hairs are grey | O |
And she may wear her life away | O |
But to his lady and his home | T |
Her noble lord will never come | U |
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'I wish I knew the worst ' she said | V |
'I wish I could despair | K |
These fruitless hopes this constant dread | V |
Are more than I can bear ' | - |
'Then do not hope and do not weep | W |
He loved thee faithfully | I |
And nothing short of death could keep | W |
So true a heart from thee | I |
Eliza he would never go | X |
And leave thee thus to mourn | S |
He must be dead for death alone | F |
Could hinder his return ' | - |
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'Twas thus I spoke because I felt | Y |
As if my heart would break | Z |
To see her thus so slowly pining | A2 |
For Alzerno's sake | Z |
But more than that I would not tell | B2 |
Though all the while I knew so well | B2 |
The time and nature of his death | C2 |
For when he drew his parting breath | C2 |
His head was pillowed on my knee | I |
And his dark eyes were turned to me | I |
With and agonised heart breaking glance | D2 |
Until they saw me not | E2 |
O the look of a dying man | F2 |
Can never be forgot | E2 |
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Alexandrina Zenobia | G2 |
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