Dedication Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDE FGFGHH GIGIJJ KGKGGG LGLGMM NKOPQQ RSRSGG TUTUGG GLGLVV WGWGGG XYXYZZ| ONCE more my harp once more although I thought | A |
| Never to wake thy silent strings again | B |
| A wandering dream thy gentle chords have wrought | A |
| And my sad heart which long hath dwelt in pain | C |
| Soars like a wild bird from a cypress bough | D |
| Into the poet's Heaven and leaves dull grief below | E |
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| And unto Thee the beautiful and pure | F |
| Whose lot is cast amid that busy world | G |
| Where only sluggish Dulness dwells secure | F |
| And Fancy's generous wing is faintly furl'd | G |
| To thee whose friendship kept its equal truth | H |
| Through the most dreary hour of my embitter'd youth | H |
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| I dedicate the lay Ah never bard | G |
| In days when Poverty was twin with song | I |
| Nor wandering harper lonely and ill starr'd | G |
| Cheer'd by some castle's chief and harboured long | I |
| Not Scott's 'Last Minstrel ' in his trembling lays | J |
| Woke with a warmer heart the earnest meed of praise | J |
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| For easy are the alms the rich man spares | K |
| To sons of Genius by misfortune bent | G |
| But thou gav'st me what woman seldom dares | K |
| Belief in spite of may a cold dissent | G |
| When slandered and maligned I stood apart | G |
| From those whose bounded power hath wrung not crushed my heart | G |
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| Then then when cowards lied away my name | L |
| And scoff'd to see me feebly stem the tide | G |
| When some were kind on whom I had no claim | L |
| And some forsook on whom my love relied | G |
| And some who might have battled for my sake | M |
| Stood off in doubt to see what turn 'the world' would take | M |
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| Thou gavest me that the poor do give the poor | N |
| Kind words and holy wishes and true tears | K |
| The loved the near of kin could do no more | O |
| Who changed not with the gloom of varying years | P |
| But clung the closer when I stood forlorn | Q |
| And blunted Slander's dart with their indignant scorn | Q |
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| For they who credit crime are they who feel | R |
| Their own hearts weak to unresisted sin | S |
| Mem'ry not judgment prompts the thoughts which steal | R |
| O'er minds like these an easy faith to win | S |
| And tales of broken truth are still believed | G |
| Most readily by those who have themselves deceived | G |
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| But like a white swan down a troubled stream | T |
| Whose ruffling pinion hath the power to fling | U |
| Aside the turbid drops which darkly gleam | T |
| And mar the freshness of her snowy wing | U |
| So Thou with queenly grace and gentle pride | G |
| Along the world's dark waves in purity dost glide | G |
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| Thy pale and pearly cheek was never made | G |
| To crimson with a faint false hearted shame | L |
| Thou didst not shrink of bitter tongues afraid | G |
| Who hunt in packs the object of their blame | L |
| To Thee the sad denial still held true | V |
| For from thine own good thoughts thy heart its mercy drew | V |
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| And though my faint and tributary rhymes | W |
| Add nothing to the glory of thy day | G |
| Yet every Poet hopes that after times | W |
| Shall set some value on his votive lay | G |
| And I would fain one gentle deed record | G |
| Among the many such with which thy life is stored | G |
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| So when these lines made in a mournful hour | X |
| Are idly open'd to the Stranger's eye | Y |
| A dream of THEE aroused by Fancy's power | X |
| Shall be the first to wander floating by | Y |
| And they who never saw thy lovely face | Z |
| Shall pause to conjure up a vision of its grace | Z |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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