The Lady Of La Garaye - Part Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG HH II JDDKKLLMMNNOPLLQRSST TUUVVWWXXXXLLYYXXNNP PRQXXNNWWXXXXLLLLZZ XXA2A2LLB2B2C2D2XXLL XX E2E2E2XXF2F2WWXYXY G2G2XXH2H2XXLLLLXXLL I2I2J2J2K2K2H2H2L2L2 B2B2M2M2PPN2N2XXXXO2 O2KKQRXX LLLLXXXXP2Q2XXXXXXR2 S2HHNWA FIRST walk after sickness the sweet breeze | A |
That murmurs welcome in the bending trees | A |
When the cold shadowy foe of life departs | B |
And the warm blood flows freely through our hearts | B |
The smell of roses sound of trickling streams | C |
The elastic turf cross barred with golden gleams | C |
That seems to lift and meet our faltering tread | D |
The happy birds loud singing overhead | D |
The glorious range of distant shade and light | E |
In blue perspective rapturous to our sight | E |
Weary of draperied curtains folding round | F |
And the monotonous chamber's narrow bound | F |
With best of all the consciousness at length | G |
In every nerve of sure returning strength | G |
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Long the dream stayed to cheer that darkened room | H |
That this should be the end of all that gloom | H |
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Long as the vacant life trained idly by | I |
She pressed her pillow with a restless sigh | I |
'To morrow surely I shall stronger feel ' | - |
To morrow but the slow days onward steal | J |
And find her still with feverish aching head | D |
Still cramped with pain still lingering in her bed | D |
Still sighing out the tedium of the time | K |
Still listening to the clock's recurring chime | K |
As though the very hours that struck were foes | L |
And might but would not grant complete respose | L |
Until the skilled physician sadly bold | M |
From frequent questioning her sentence told | M |
That no good end could come to her faint yearning | N |
That no bright hour should see her health returning | N |
That changeful seasons not for one dark year | O |
But on through life must teach her how to bear | P |
For through all Springs with rainbow tinted showers | L |
And through all Summers with their wealth of flowers | L |
And every Autumn with its harvest home | Q |
And all white Winters of the time to come | R |
Crooked and sick for ever she must be | S |
Her life of wild activity and glee | S |
Was with the past the future was a life | T |
Dismal and feeble full of suffering rife | T |
With chill denials of accustomed joy | U |
Continual torment and obscure annoy | U |
Blighted in all her bloom her withered frame | V |
Must now inherit age young but in name | V |
Never could she at close of some long day | W |
Of pain that strove with hope exulting lay | W |
A tiny new born infant on her breast | X |
And in the soft lamp's glimmer sink to rest | X |
The strange corporeal weakness sweetly blent | X |
With a delicious dream of full content | X |
With pride of motherhood and thankful prayers | L |
And a confused glad sense of novel cares | L |
And peeps into the future brightly given | Y |
As though her babe's blue eyes turned earth to heaven | Y |
Never again could she when Claud returned | X |
After brief absence and her fond heart yearned | X |
To see his earnest eyes with upward glancing | N |
Greet her known windows even while yet advancing | N |
Fly with light footsteps down the great hall stair | P |
And give him welcome in the open air | P |
As though she were too glad to see him come | R |
To wait till he should enter happy home | Q |
And there quick breathing glowing sparkling stand | X |
His arm round her slim waist hand locked in hand | X |
The mutual kiss exchanged of happy greeting | N |
That needs no secrecy of lovers' meeting | N |
While giving welcome also in their way | W |
Her dogs barked rustling round him wild with play | W |
And voices called and hasty steps replied | X |
And the sleek fiery steed was led aside | X |
And the grey seneschal came forth and smiled | X |
Who held him in his arms while yet a child | X |
And cheery jinglings from unfastened doors | L |
And vaulted echoes through long corridors | L |
And distant bells that thrill along the wires | L |
And stir of logs that heap up autumn fires | L |
Crowned the glad eager bustle that makes known | Z |
The Master's step is on his threshold stone | Z |
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Never again those rides so gladly shared | X |
So much enjoyed in which so much was dared | X |
To prove no peril from the gate or brook | A2 |
Need bring the shadow of an anxious look | A2 |
To mar the pleasant ray of proud surprise | L |
That shone from out those dear protecting eyes | L |
No more swift hurrying through the summer rain | B2 |
That showered light silver on the freshened plain | B2 |
Hung on the tassels of the hazel bough | C2 |
And plashed the azure of the river's flow | D2 |
No more glad climbing of the mountain height | X |
From whence a map drawn out in lines of light | X |
Showed dotting villages and distant spires | L |
And the red rows of metal burning fires | L |
And purple covering woods within which stand | X |
White mansions of the nobles of the land | X |
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No more sweet wanderings far from tread of men | E2 |
In the deep thickets of the sunny glen | E2 |
To see the vanished Spring bud forth again | E2 |
Its well remembered tufts of primrose set | X |
Among the sheltered banks of violet | X |
Or in thatched summer houses sit and dream | F2 |
Through gurgling gushes of the woodland stream | F2 |
Then rested rise and by the sunset ray | W |
Saunter at will along the homeward way | W |
Pausing at each delight the singing loud | X |
Of some sweet thrush e'er lingering eve be done | Y |
Or the pink shining of some casual cloud | X |
That blushes deeper as it nears the sun | Y |
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The rough woodpath the little rocky burn | G2 |
Nothing of this can ever now return | G2 |
The life of joy is over what is left | X |
Is a half life a life of strength bereft | X |
The body broken from the yearning soul | H2 |
Never again to make a perfect whole | H2 |
Helpless desires and cravings unfulfilled | X |
Bitter regret in stormy weepings stilled | X |
Strivings whose easy effort used to bless | L |
Grown full of danger and sharp weariness | L |
This is the life whose dreadful dawn must rise | L |
When the night lifts within whose gloom she lies | L |
Hope on whose lingering help she leaned so late | X |
Struck from her clinging by the sword of fate | X |
That wild word NEVER to her shrinking gaze | L |
Seems written on the wall in fiery rays | L |
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Never our helpless changeful natures shrink | I2 |
Before that word as from the grave's cold brink | I2 |
Set us a term whereto we must endure | J2 |
And you shall find our crown of patience sure | J2 |
But the irrevocable smites us down | K2 |
Helpless we lie before the eternal frown | K2 |
Waters of Marah whelm the blinded soul | H2 |
Stifle the heart and drown our self control | H2 |
So when she heard the grave physician speak | L2 |
Horror crept through her veins who faint and weak | L2 |
And tortured by all motion yet had lain | B2 |
With a meek cheerfulness that conquered pain | B2 |
Hoping till that dark hour Give back the hope | M2 |
Though years rise sad with intervening scope | M2 |
Scarce can those radiant eyes with sickly stare | P |
Yet comprehend that sentence of despair | P |
Crooked and sick for ever Crooked and sick | N2 |
She in whose veins the passionate blood ran quick | N2 |
As leaps the rivulet from the mountain height | X |
That dances rippling into Summer light | X |
She in whose cheek the rich bloom always stayed | X |
And only deepened to a lovelier shade | X |
She whose fleet limbs no exercise could tire | O2 |
When wild hill climbing wooed her spirit higher | O2 |
Knell not above her bed this funeral chime | K |
Bid her be prisoner for a certain time | K |
Tell her blank years must waste in that changed home | Q |
But not for ever not for life to come | R |
Let infinite torture be her daily guest | X |
But set a term beyond which shall be rest | X |
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In vain she sees that trembling fountain rise | L |
Tears of compassion in an old man's eyes | L |
And in low pitying tones again he tells | L |
The doom that sounds to her like funeral bells | L |
Long on his face her wistful gaze she kept | X |
Then dropped her head and wildly moaned and wept | X |
Shivering through every limb as lightning thought | X |
Smote her with all the endless ruin wrought | X |
Never to be a mother Never give | P2 |
Another life beyond her own to live | Q2 |
Never to see her husband bless their child | X |
Thinking dear bless d thought like him it smiled | X |
Never again with Claud to walk or ride | X |
Partake his pleasures with a playful pride | X |
But cease from all companionship so shared | X |
And only have the hours his pity spared | X |
His pity ah his pity would it prove | R2 |
As warm and lasting as admiring love | S2 |
Or would her petty joys' late spoken doom | H |
Carry the great joy with them to joy's tomb | H |
Would all the hopes of life at once take wing | N |
The thought went through her wi | W |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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