The Visionary Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBBA BBBBDD A BEBEFGH IJIJKKH BHBHLLH MNMOHHH PBPBHHH QBQBMMM BMBMR| I | A |
| - | |
| As by his lonely hearth he sate | B |
| The shadow of a welcome dream | C |
| Pass'd o'er his heart disconsolate | B |
| His home did seem | C |
| Comfort in vain was spread around | B |
| For something still was wanting found | B |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Therefore he thought of one who might | B |
| For ever in his presence stay | B |
| Whose dream should be of him by night | B |
| Whose smile should be for him by day | B |
| And the sweet vision vague and far | D |
| Rose on his fancy like a star | D |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| 'Let her be young yet not a child | B |
| Whose light and inexperienced mirth | E |
| Is all too wing d and too wild | B |
| For sober earth | E |
| Too rainbow like such mirth appears | F |
| And fades away in misty tears | G |
| IV | H |
| - | |
| 'Let youth's fresh rose still gently bloom | I |
| Upon her smooth and downy cheek | J |
| Yet let a shadow not of gloom | I |
| But soft and meek | J |
| Tell that some sorrow she hath known | K |
| Tho' not a sorrow of her own | K |
| V | H |
| - | |
| 'And let her eyes be of the grey | B |
| The soft grey of the brooding dove | H |
| Full of the sweet and tender ray | B |
| Of modest love | H |
| For fonder shows that dreamy hue | L |
| Than lustrous black or heavenly blue | L |
| VI | H |
| - | |
| 'Let her be full of quiet grace | M |
| No sparkling wit with sudden glow | N |
| Bright'ning her purely chisell'd face | M |
| And placid brow | O |
| Not radiant to the stranger's eye | H |
| A creature easily pass'd by | H |
| VII | H |
| - | |
| 'But who once seen with untold power | P |
| For ever haunts the yearning heart | B |
| Raised from the crowd that self same hour | P |
| To dwell apart | B |
| All sainted and enshrined to be | H |
| The idol of our memory | H |
| VIII | H |
| - | |
| 'And oh let Mary be her name | Q |
| It hath a sweet and gentle sound | B |
| At which no glories dear to fame | Q |
| Come crowding round | B |
| But which the dreaming heart beguiles | M |
| With holy thoughts and household smiles | M |
| IX | M |
| - | |
| 'With peaceful meetings welcomes kind | B |
| And love the same in joy and tears | M |
| And gushing intercourse of mind | B |
| Thro' faithful years | M |
| Oh dream of something half divine | R |
| Be real be mortal and be mine ' | - |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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