Hypotheses Hypochondriacae Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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And should she die her grave should beA
Upon the bare top of a sunny hillB
Among the moorlands of her own fair landC
Amid a ring of old and moss grown stonesD
In gorse and heather all embosomedC
There should be no tall stone no marble tombE
Above her gentle corse the ponderous pileF
Would press too rudely on those fairy limbsG
The turf should lightly he that marked her homeH
A sacred spot it would be every birdC
That came to watch her lone grave should be holyA
The deer should browse around her undisturbedC
The whin bird by her lonely nest should buildC
All fearless for in life she loved to seeA
Happiness in all thingsI
And we would come on summer daysJ
When all around was bright and set us downK
And think of all that lay beneath that turfL
On which the heedless moor bird sits and whistlesM
His long shrill painful song as though he plainedC
For her that loved him and his pleasant hillsN
And we would dream again of bygone daysJ
Until our eyes should swell with natural tearsO
For brilliant hopes all faded into airP
As on the sands of Irak near approachQ
Destroys the traveller's vision of still lakesR
And goodly streams reed clad and meadows greenS
And leaves behind the drear realityC
Of shadeless same yet ever changing sandC
And when the sullen clouds rose thick on highT
Mountains on mountains rolling and dark mistC
Wrapped itself round the hill tops like a shroudC
When on her grave swept by the moaning windC
Bending the heather bells then would I comeU
And watch by her in silent lonelinessV
And smile upon the storm as knowing wellW
The lightning's flash would surely turn asideC
Nor mar the lowly mound where peaceful sleepsX
All that gave life and love to one fond heartC
I talk of things that are not and if prayersO
By night and day availed from my weak lipsY
Then should they never be till I was goneZ
Before the friends I loved to my long homeH
Oh pardon me if e'er I say too much my mindC
Too often strangely turns to ribald mirthA2
As though I had no doubt nor hope beyondC
Or brooding melancholy cloys my soulB2
With thoughts of days misspent of wasted timeC2
And bitter feelings swallowed up in jestsD2
Then strange and fearful thoughts flit o'er my brainE2
By indistinctness made more terribleF2
And incubi mock at me with fierce eyesG2
Upon my couch and visions crude and direH2
Of planets suns millions of miles infinityC
Space time thought being blank nonentityC
Things incorporeal fancies of the brainE2
Seen heard as though they were materialF2
All mixed in sickening mazes trouble meC
And lead my soul away from earth and heavenI2
Until I doubt whether I be or notC
And then I see all frightful shapes lank ghostsJ2
Hydras chimeras krakens wastes of sandC
Herbless and void of living voice tall mountainsK2
Cleaving the skies with height immeasurableF2
On which perchance I climb for infinite years broad seasL2
Studded with islands numberless that stretchM2
Beyond the regions of the sun and fadeC
Away in distance vast or dreary cloudsN2
Cold dark and watery where wander I for everO2
Or space of ether where I hang for ayeT
A speck an atom inconsumableF2
Immortal hopeless voiceless powerlessV
And oft I fancy I am weak and oldC
And all who loved me one by one are deadC
And I am left alone and cannot dieT
Surely there is no rest on earth for soulsP2
Whose dreams are like a madman's I am youngQ2
And much is yet before me after yearsR2
May bring peace with them to my weary heartC
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HelstonI2

Charles Kingsley



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