The Undying One' - Canto I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEDEDDCDC FGHHIJKLDDMNMNDODOPQ RRSSBB TTAHDDUVHHDDWWCCXDXD DMDMHY HYNNZA2 B2B2C2C2CPD2D2D KKE2E2DDF2F2 JJTTC2C2OOAAEEG2G2AA H2H2SBSBQPI2I2 QQB2B2J2J2K2K2L2L2AA C2M2JIOOLN2RRO2P2H2H 2 DDKKQ2I2Q2I2RDRDGR2F R2AAS2T2U2T2V2V2W2A X2 M2C2H2 Y2QZ2MOONLIGHT is o'er the dim and heaving sea | A |
Moonlight is on the mountain's frowning brow | B |
And by their silvery fountains merrily | A |
The maids of Castaly are dancing now | B |
Young hearts bright eyes and rosy lips are there | C |
And fairy steps and light and laughing voices | D |
Ringing like welcome music through the air | C |
A sound at which the untroubled heart rejoices | D |
But there are hearts o'er which that dancing measure | E |
Heavily falls | D |
And there are ears to which the voice of pleasure | E |
Still vainly calls | D |
There's not a scene on earth so full of lightness | D |
That withering care | C |
Sleeps not beneath the flowers and turns their brightness | D |
To dark despair | C |
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Oh Earth dim Earth thou canst not be our home | F |
Or wherefore look we still for joys to come | G |
The fairy steps are flown the scene is still | H |
Nought mingles with the murmuring of the rill | H |
Nay hush it is a sound a sigh again | I |
It is a human voice the voice of pain | J |
And beautiful is she who sighs alone | K |
Now that her young and playful mates are gone | L |
The dim moon shining on her statue face | D |
Gives it a mournful and unearthly grace | D |
And she hath bent her gentle knee to earth | M |
And she hath raised her meek sad eyes to heaven | N |
As if in such a breast sin could have birth | M |
She clasps her hands and sues to be forgiven | N |
Her prayer is over but her anxious glance | D |
Into the blue transparency of night | O |
Seems as it fain would read the book of chance | D |
And fix the future hours dark or bright | O |
A slow and heavy footstep strikes her ear | P |
What ails the gentle maiden Is it fear | Q |
Lo she hath lightly raised her from the ground | R |
And turn'd her small and stag like head around | R |
Her pale cheek paler and her lips apart | S |
Her bosom heaving o'er her beating heart | S |
And see those thin white hands she raises now | B |
To press the throbbing fever from her brow | B |
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In vain in vain for never more shall rest | T |
Find place in that young fair but erring breast | T |
He stands before her now and who is he | A |
Into whose outspread arms confidingly | H |
She flings her fairy self Unlike the forms | D |
That woo and win a woman's love the storms | D |
Of deep contending passions are not seen | U |
Darkening the features where they once have been | V |
Nor the bright workings of a generous soul | H |
Of feelings half conceal'd explain the whole | H |
But there is something words cannot express | D |
A gloomy deep and quiet fixedness | D |
A recklessness of all the blows of fate | W |
A brow untouch'd by love undimm'd by hate | W |
As if in all its stores of crime and care | C |
Earth held no suffering now for him to bear | C |
Yes all is passionless the hollow cheek | X |
Those pale thin lips shall never wreathe with smiles | D |
Ev'n now 'mid joy unmoved and sad they speak | X |
In spite of all his Linda's winning wiles | D |
Yet can we read what all the rest denies | D |
That he hath feelings of a mortal birth | M |
In the wild sorrow of those dark bright eyes | D |
Bent on that form his one dear link to earth | M |
He loves and he is loved then what avail | H |
The scornful words which seek to brand with shame | Y |
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Or bitterer still the wild and fearful tale | H |
Which couples guilt and horror with that name | Y |
What boots it that the few who know him shun | N |
To speak or eat with that unworthy one | N |
Were all their words of scorn and malice proved | Z |
It matters not he loves and he is loved | A2 |
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'Linda my Linda ' thus the silence broke | B2 |
And slow and mournfully the stranger spoke | B2 |
'Seat we ourselves upon this mossy bed | C2 |
Where the glad airs of heaven wave o'er thy head | C2 |
And thou shalt hear the awful tale which ne'er | C |
Hath yet been breathed save once to mortal ear | P |
And if my Linda nay love tremble not | D2 |
Thou shudder'st to partake so dark a lot | D2 |
Go and be happy in forgetfulness | D |
And take I'd bless thee if my tongue could bless ' | - |
There was that sudden sinking of the tone | K |
That lingers in our memory when alone | K |
And thrills the heart to think how deep the grief | E2 |
Which sues no pity looks for no relief | E2 |
Oh deep beyond the feeble power of tears | D |
Such scene will dwell within our souls for years | D |
And it will seem but yesterday we heard | F2 |
The faltering pause the calm but broken word | F2 |
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Saw the averted head where each blue vein | J |
Swell'd in its agony of mental pain | J |
And heard the grief confess'd no not confess'd | T |
But struggling burst convulsive from the breast | T |
'Isbal ' that gentle voice half murmuring said | C2 |
As from his shoulder she upraised her head | C2 |
'Thou knowest I love thee When I came to night | O |
I had resolved thy future dark or bright | O |
Should still be mine Beloved so must it be | A |
For I have broke a fearful vow for thee | A |
This morning he who calls himself my brother | E |
Oh can he be the child of my sweet mother | E |
Pleaded once more for him that hated friend | G2 |
Whose bride I was to be I could but bend | G2 |
To the cold earth my faint and trembling knee | A |
And supplicate with woman's agony | A |
That he would spare me but an hour a day | H2 |
I clasp'd my brother's knees that brother said me nay | H2 |
He held a poinard to my shrinking heart | S |
And bade me breathe the vow | B |
Never in life or death from him to part | S |
Who is my husband now | B |
Isbal we were betrothed my lips in fear | Q |
Pronounced those words but oh my heart was here | P |
Here in the calm cold moonlight by thy side | I2 |
Here where the dark blue waters gently glide | I2 |
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Here in my childhood's haunts now ev'n more dear | Q |
Than in those happy days for thou art near | Q |
Yes while the unheeded vow my faint lip spoke | B2 |
Recall'd the echo which thy tones awoke | B2 |
Thy image rose between me and the shrine | J2 |
Surely the vow before it breathed was thine | J2 |
To morrow's sun proud Carlos claims his wife | K2 |
To morrow's sun shall see my span of life | K2 |
Devoted unto thee thy tale can make | L2 |
No lot I would not share for thy sweet sake | L2 |
No Ere I hear it let love's fond vow be | A |
To have no earth no heaven no hope but thee | A |
Now tell me all ' Again that gentle head | C2 |
With dewy eyes and flushing cheek is laid | M2 |
Upon his arm and with a thrill of pain | J |
The broken thread is thus renew'd again | I |
'From the first hour I saw thee on that night | O |
When dancing in the moonbeam's chequer'd light | O |
With those young laughing ones who now are gone | L |
By this same fountain which is murmuring on | N2 |
When my deep groan burst through the music's sound | R |
And that soft eye went glancing startled round | R |
From that sweet hour when pity seem'd to move | O2 |
I loved thee as the wretched only love | P2 |
Oft since when in the darkness of my day | H2 |
I sit and dream my wretched life away | H2 |
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In the deep silence of my night of tears | D |
When Memory wakes to mourn for vanish'd years | D |
Shunn'd scorn'd detested friendless and alone | K |
I've thought of thee and stifled back my groan | K |
I've come in daylight and have flung me down | Q2 |
By the bright fountain's side | I2 |
Chased with dear thoughts of thee each gloomy frown | Q2 |
And bless'd my promised bride | I2 |
I've come when stormy winds have howl'd around | R |
Over the yielding flowers | D |
Bending their gentle heads unto the ground | R |
And thought of thee for hours | D |
I've come my Linda knows that I have come | G |
When the soft starlight told | R2 |
That she had left her haughty brother's home | F |
And hearts as dead and cold | R2 |
As the chill waters of a moonless sea | A |
For the light dance and music's revelry | A |
With gay and loving maids and I have watch'd | S2 |
Till one by one those soft steps have departed | T2 |
And my young mournful Linda hath been snatch'd | U2 |
To the sear bosom of the broken hearted | T2 |
Linda there is a land a far dark land | V2 |
Where on this head the red avenging hand | V2 |
Fell with its heaviest bolts When watching by | W2 |
The bitter cross of Him of Calvary | A |
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They stood who loved and did believe in Him | X2 |
I said while all around grew dark and dim ' | - |
'Isbal dear Isbal ' shriek'd the affrighted maid | M2 |
'For that dear Saviour's sake for him who said | C2 |
He died for sinners mock me not I pray | H2 |
Oh yet beloved those words of Death unsay ' | - |
She hung upon his bosom and look'd up | Y2 |
Into those dark wild eyes with grief and fear | Q |
Alas poor maiden 'twas a bit | Z2 |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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