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The Creole Girl; Or, The Physician-s Story Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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SHE came to England from the island clime	B
Which lies beyond the far Atlantic wave	C
She died in early youth before her time	B
'Peace to her broken heart and virgin grave '	-
II	A
	-
She was the child of Passion and of Shame	B
English her father and of noble birth	D
Though too obscure for good or evil fame	B
Her unknown mother faded from the earth	D
III	A
	-
And what that fair West Indian did betide	E
None knew but he who least of all might tell	F
But that she lived and loved and lonely died	E
And sent this orphan child with him to dwell	F
IV	C
	-
Oh that a fair and innocent young face	G
Should have a poison in its looks alone	H
To raise up thoughts of sorrow and disgrace	G
And shame most bitter although not its own	H
V	C
	-
Cruel were they who flung that heavy shade	I
Across the life whose days did but begin	J
Cruel were they who crush'd her heart and made	I
Her youth pay penance for his youth's wild sin	J
VI	C
	-
Yet so it was among her father's friends	K
A cold compassion made contempt seem light	L
But in 'the world ' no justice e'er defends	K
The victims of their tortuous wrong and right	L
VII	C
	-
And 'moral England ' striking down the weak	M
And smiling at the vices of the strong	N
On her poor child her parent's guilt would wreak	M
And that which was her grievance made her wrong	N
VIII	C
	-
The world she understood not nor did they	O
Who made that world her either understand	P
The very glory of her features' play	O
Seem'd like the language of a foreign land	P
IX	K
	-
The shadowy feelings rich and wild and warm	B
That glow'd and mantled in her lovely face	K
The slight full beauty of her youthful form	B
Its gentle majesty its pliant grace	K
X	K
	-
The languid lustre of her speaking eye	C
The indolent smile of that bewitching mouth	Q
Which more than all betray'd her natal sky	C
And left us dreaming of the sunny South	Q
XI	K
	-
The passionate variation of her blood	R
Which rose and sank as rise and sink the waves	K
With every change of her most changeful mood	S
Shock'd sickly Fashion's pale and guarded slaves	K
XII	K
	-
And so in this fair world she stood alone	H
An alien 'mid the ever moving crowd	T
A wandering stranger nameless and unknown	H
Her claim to human kindness disallow'd	T
XIII	K
	-
But oft would Passion's bold and burning gaze	K
And Curiosity's set frozen stare	U
Fix on her beauty in those early days	K
And coarsely thus her loveliness declare	U
XIV	C
	-
Which she would shrink from as the gentle plant	V
Fern leaved Mimosa folds itself away	O
Suffering and sad for easy 'twas to daunt	W
One who on earth had no protecting stay	O
XV	C
	-
And often to her eye's transparent lid	X
The unshed tears would rise with sudden start	Y
And sink again as though by Reason chid	Y
Back to their gentle home her wounded heart	Y
XVI	C
	-
Even as some gushing fountain idly wells	K
Up to the prison of its marble side	Y
Whose power the mounting wave for ever quells	K
So rose her tears so stemm'd by virgin pride	Y
XVII	C
	-
And so more lonely each succeeding day	Y
As she her lot did better understand	Y
She lived a life which had in it decay	Y
A flower transplanted to too cold a land	Y
XVIII	C
	-
Which for a while gives out a hope of bloom	B
Then fades and pines because it may not feel	Z
The freedom and the warmth which gave it room	B
The beauty of its nature to reveal	Z
XIX	K
	-
For vainly would the heart accept its lot	Y
And rouse its strength to bear avow'd contempt	Y
Scorn will be felt as scorn deserved or not	Y
And from its bitter spell none stand exempt	Y
XX	K
	-
There is a basilisk power in human eyes	K
When they would look a fellow creature down	A2
'Neath which the faint soul fascinated lies	K
Struck by the cold sneer or the with'ring frown	A2
XXI	K
	-
But one there was among that cruel crowd	Y
Whose nature half rebell'd against the chain	B2
Which fashion flung around him though too proud	Y
To own that slavery's weariness and pain	B2
XXII	K
	-
Too proud perhaps too weak for Custom still	C2
Curbs with an iron bit the souls born free	K
They start and chafe yet bend them to the will	C2
Of this most nameless ruler so did he	K
XXIII	K
	-
And even unto him the worldly brand	Y
Which rested on her half her charm effaced	Y
Vainly all pure and radiant did she stand	Y
Even unto him she was a thing disgraced	Y
XXIV	C
	-
Had she been early doom'd a cloister'd nun	D2
To Heaven devoted by a holy vow	C
His union with that poor deserted one	D2
Had seem'd not more impossible than now	C
XXV	C
	-
He could have loved her fervently and well	F
But still the cold world with its false allure	E2
Bound his free liking in an icy spell	F
And made its whole foundation insecure	F2
XXVI	C
	-
But not like meaner souls would he to prove	C
A vulgar admiration her pursue	K
For though his glances after her would rove	C
As something beautiful and strange and new	K
XXVII	C
	-
They were withdrawn if but her eye met his	K
Or for an instant if their light remain'd	Y
They soften'd into gentlest tenderness	K
As asking pardon that his look had pain'd	Y
XXVIII	C
	-
And she was nothing unto him nor he	K
Aught unto her but each of each did dream	B
In the still hours of thought when we are free	K
To quit the real world for the things which seem	B
XXIX	K
	-
When in his heart Love's folded wings would stir	F2
And bid his youth choose out a fitting mate	Y
Against his will his thoughts roam'd back to her	F2
And all around seem'd blank and desolate	Y
XXX	K
	-
When in his worldly haunts a smother'd sigh	C
Told he had won some lady of the land	Y
The dreaming glances of his earnest eye	C
Beheld far off the Creole orphan stand	Y
XXXI	K
	-
And to the beauty by his side he froze	K
As though she were not fair nor he so young	G2
And turn'd on her such looks of cold repose	K
As check'd the trembling accents of her tongue	G2
XXXII	K
	-
And bid her heart's dim passion seek to hide	Y
Its gathering strength although the task be pain	B2
Lest she become that mock to woman's pride	Y
A wretch that loves unwoo'd and loves in vain	B2
XXXIII	K
	-
So in his heart she dwelt as one may dwell	F
Upon the verge of a forbidden ground	Y
And oft he struggled hard to break the spell	F
And banish her but vain the effort found	Y
XXXIV	C
	-
For still along the winding way which led	Y
Into his inmost soul unbidden came	B
Her haunting form and he was visited	Y
By echoes soft of her unspoken name	B
XXXV	C
	-
Through the long night when those we love seem near	H2
However cold however far away	Y
Borne on the wings of floating dreams which cheer	H2
And give us strength to meet the struggling day	Y
XXXVI	C
	-
And when in twilight hours she roved apart	Y
Feeding her love sick soul with visions fair	U
The shadow of his eyes was on her heart	Y
And the smooth masses of his shining hair	U
XXXVII	C
	-
Rose in the glory of the evening light	Y
And where she wander'd glided evermore	I2
A star which beam'd upon her world's lone night	Y
Where nothing glad had ever shone before	I2
XXXVIII	C
	-
But vague and girlish was that love no hope	J2
Even of familiar greeting ever cross'd	Y
Its innocent but oh most boundless scope	J2
She loved him and she knew her love was lost	Y
XXXIX	K
	-
She gazed on him as one from out a bark	K2
Bound onward to a cold and distant strand	Y
Some lovely bay some haven fair may mark	K2
Stretching far inward to a sunnier land	Y
XL	F
	-
Who knowing he must still sail on turns back	L2
To watch with dreaming and most mournful eyes	K
The ruffling foam which follows in his track	L2
Or the deep starlight of the shoreless skies	K
XLI	F
	-
Oh many a hopeless love like this may be	K
For love will live that never looks to win	J
Gems rashly lost in Passion's stormy sea	K
Not to be lifted forth when once cast in	J
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PART II	A
I	A
	-
So time roll'd on till suddenly that child	Y
Of southern clime and feelings droop'd and pined	Y
Her cheek wax'd paler and her eye grew wild	Y
And from her youthful form all strength declined	Y
II	A
	-
'Twas then I knew her late and vainly call'd	Y
To 'minister unto a mind diseased '	-
When on her heart's faint sickness all things pall'd	Y
And the deep inward pain was never eased	Y
III	A
	-
Her step	M2