Hypotheses Hypochondriacae Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGHCACCAIJKLMC NJOPQRSCCTCCCUVWCXCO YZHCA2CB2C2D2E2F2G2H 2CCE2F2CI2CJ2CK2F2L2 M2CN2O2TF2VCCTP2Q2R2 C I2| And should she die her grave should be | A |
| Upon the bare top of a sunny hill | B |
| Among the moorlands of her own fair land | C |
| Amid a ring of old and moss grown stones | D |
| In gorse and heather all embosomed | C |
| There should be no tall stone no marble tomb | E |
| Above her gentle corse the ponderous pile | F |
| Would press too rudely on those fairy limbs | G |
| The turf should lightly he that marked her home | H |
| A sacred spot it would be every bird | C |
| That came to watch her lone grave should be holy | A |
| The deer should browse around her undisturbed | C |
| The whin bird by her lonely nest should build | C |
| All fearless for in life she loved to see | A |
| Happiness in all things | I |
| And we would come on summer days | J |
| When all around was bright and set us down | K |
| And think of all that lay beneath that turf | L |
| On which the heedless moor bird sits and whistles | M |
| His long shrill painful song as though he plained | C |
| For her that loved him and his pleasant hills | N |
| And we would dream again of bygone days | J |
| Until our eyes should swell with natural tears | O |
| For brilliant hopes all faded into air | P |
| As on the sands of Irak near approach | Q |
| Destroys the traveller's vision of still lakes | R |
| And goodly streams reed clad and meadows green | S |
| And leaves behind the drear reality | C |
| Of shadeless same yet ever changing sand | C |
| And when the sullen clouds rose thick on high | T |
| Mountains on mountains rolling and dark mist | C |
| Wrapped itself round the hill tops like a shroud | C |
| When on her grave swept by the moaning wind | C |
| Bending the heather bells then would I come | U |
| And watch by her in silent loneliness | V |
| And smile upon the storm as knowing well | W |
| The lightning's flash would surely turn aside | C |
| Nor mar the lowly mound where peaceful sleeps | X |
| All that gave life and love to one fond heart | C |
| I talk of things that are not and if prayers | O |
| By night and day availed from my weak lips | Y |
| Then should they never be till I was gone | Z |
| Before the friends I loved to my long home | H |
| Oh pardon me if e'er I say too much my mind | C |
| Too often strangely turns to ribald mirth | A2 |
| As though I had no doubt nor hope beyond | C |
| Or brooding melancholy cloys my soul | B2 |
| With thoughts of days misspent of wasted time | C2 |
| And bitter feelings swallowed up in jests | D2 |
| Then strange and fearful thoughts flit o'er my brain | E2 |
| By indistinctness made more terrible | F2 |
| And incubi mock at me with fierce eyes | G2 |
| Upon my couch and visions crude and dire | H2 |
| Of planets suns millions of miles infinity | C |
| Space time thought being blank nonentity | C |
| Things incorporeal fancies of the brain | E2 |
| Seen heard as though they were material | F2 |
| All mixed in sickening mazes trouble me | C |
| And lead my soul away from earth and heaven | I2 |
| Until I doubt whether I be or not | C |
| And then I see all frightful shapes lank ghosts | J2 |
| Hydras chimeras krakens wastes of sand | C |
| Herbless and void of living voice tall mountains | K2 |
| Cleaving the skies with height immeasurable | F2 |
| On which perchance I climb for infinite years broad seas | L2 |
| Studded with islands numberless that stretch | M2 |
| Beyond the regions of the sun and fade | C |
| Away in distance vast or dreary clouds | N2 |
| Cold dark and watery where wander I for ever | O2 |
| Or space of ether where I hang for aye | T |
| A speck an atom inconsumable | F2 |
| Immortal hopeless voiceless powerless | V |
| And oft I fancy I am weak and old | C |
| And all who loved me one by one are dead | C |
| And I am left alone and cannot die | T |
| Surely there is no rest on earth for souls | P2 |
| Whose dreams are like a madman's I am young | Q2 |
| And much is yet before me after years | R2 |
| May bring peace with them to my weary heart | C |
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| Helston | I2 |
Charles Kingsley
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