A Protest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKHLMNOFPHQ FRSMTCUV| Light words they were and lightly falsely said | A |
| She heard them and she started and she rose | B |
| As in the act to speak the sudden thought | C |
| And unconsidered impulse led her on | D |
| In act to speak she rose but with the sense | E |
| Of all the eyes of that mixed company | F |
| Now suddenly turned upon her some with age | G |
| Hardened and dulled some cold and critical | H |
| Some in whom vapours of their own conceit | I |
| As moist malarious mists the heavenly stars | J |
| Still blotted out their good the best at best | K |
| By frivolous laugh and prate conventional | H |
| All too untuned for all she thought to say | L |
| With such a thought the mantling blood to her cheek | M |
| Flushed up and o'er flushed itself blank night her soul | N |
| Made dark and in her all her purpose swooned | O |
| She stood as if for sinking Yet anon | F |
| With recollections clear august sublime | P |
| Of God's great truth and right immutable | H |
| Which as obedient vassals to her mind | Q |
| Came summoned of her will in self negation | F |
| Quelling her troublous earthy consciousness | R |
| She queened it o'er her weakness At the spell | S |
| Back rolled the ruddy tide and leaves her cheek | M |
| Paler than erst and yet not ebbs so far | T |
| But that one pulse of one indignant thought | C |
| Might hurry it hither in flood So as she stood | U |
| She spoke God in her spoke and made her heard | V |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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