The Forsaken Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCA DEDEA FGFHI IJIJI KLKLI MNMOI PQRQI SJSJR TUTUR VWVWR XRXRR EYEYR ZA2ZA2I B2C2B2C2I ID2IE2I JIJII MRMR| I | A |
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| IT is the music of her native land | B |
| The airs she used to love in happier days | C |
| The lute is struck by some young gentle hand | B |
| To soothe her spirit with remember'd lays | C |
| II | A |
| - | |
| But her sad heart is wandering from the notes | D |
| Her ear is fill'd with an imagined strain | E |
| Vainly the soften'd music round her floats | D |
| The echo it awakes is all of pain | E |
| III | A |
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| The echo it awakes is of a voice | F |
| Which never more her weary heart shall cheer | G |
| Fain would she banish it but hath no choice | F |
| Its vanish'd sound still haunts her shrinking ear | H |
| IV | I |
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| Still haunts her with its tones of joy and love | I |
| Its memories of bitterness and wrong | J |
| Bidding her thoughts thro' various changes rove | I |
| Welcomes farewells and snatches of wild song | J |
| V | I |
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| Why bring her music She had half forgot | K |
| How left how lonely how oppress'd she was | L |
| Why by these strains recal her former lot | K |
| The depth of all her suffering and its cause | L |
| VI | I |
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| Know ye not what a spell there is in sound | M |
| Know ye not that the melody of words | N |
| Is nothing to the power that wanders round | M |
| Giving vague language to harmonious chords | O |
| VII | I |
| - | |
| Oh I keep ye silence He hath sung to her | P |
| And from that hour faint twilight sweet and dim | Q |
| When the low breeze scarce made the branches stirs | R |
| Music hath been a memory of HIM | Q |
| VIII | I |
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| Chords which the wandering fingers scarcely touch | S |
| When they would seek for some forgotten song | J |
| Stray notes which have no certain meaning such | S |
| As careless hands unthinkingly prolong | J |
| IX | R |
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| Come unto HER fraught with a vivid dream | T |
| Of love in all its wild and passionate strength | U |
| Of sunsets glittering on the purple stream | T |
| Of shadows deepening into twilight length | U |
| X | R |
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| Of gentle sounds when the warm world lay hush'd | V |
| Beneath the soft breath of the evening air | W |
| Of hopes and fears and expectations crush'd | V |
| By one long certainty of blank despair | W |
| XI | R |
| - | |
| Bear to the sick man's couch the fiery cup | X |
| Pledged by wild feasters in their riotous hours | R |
| And bid his parch'd lips drink the poison up | X |
| As tho' its foam held cool refreshing powers | R |
| XII | R |
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| Lift some poor wounded wretch whose writhing pain | E |
| Finds soothing only in an utter rest | Y |
| Forth in some rude made litter to regain | E |
| Strength for his limbs and vigour for his breast | Y |
| XIII | R |
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| But soothe ye not that proud forsaken heart | Z |
| With strains whose sweetness maddens as they fall | A2 |
| Untroubled let her feverish soul depart | Z |
| Not long shall memory's power its might enthral | A2 |
| XIV | I |
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| Not long tho' balmy be the summer's breath | B2 |
| In the deep stillness of its golden light | C2 |
| A shadowy spirit sits whose name is DEATH | B2 |
| And turns what was all beauty into blight | C2 |
| XV | I |
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| And she before whose sad and dreaming eye | I |
| Visions of by gone days are sweeping on | D2 |
| In her unfaded youth shall drooping die | I |
| Shut from the glow of that Italian sun | E2 |
| XVI | I |
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| Then let the organ's solemn notes prolong | J |
| Their glory round the silence of her grave | I |
| Then let the choral voices swell in song | J |
| And echo thro' the chancel and the nave | I |
| XVII | I |
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| For then her heart shall ache not at the sound | M |
| Then the faint fever of her life shall cease | R |
| Silence unbroken calm shall reign around | M |
| And the long restless shall be laid at peace | R |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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