The Parting (2) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFE GGHHII JKILMMNOPOLQLQ KRLSOOTU VKV WIWIXSF YZA2ZB2B2C2C2IID2E2F 2E2 G2| A | |
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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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Anne Bronta
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