Hypotheses Hypochondriacae Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGHCACCAIJKLMC NJOPQRSCCTCCCUVWCXCO YZHCA2CB2C2D2E2F2G2H 2CCE2F2CI2CJ2CK2F2L2 M2CN2O2TF2VCCTP2Q2R2 C I2And 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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