A Vision Of Repentance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJ LL MBMBHH NONOFF LLPP QQRS TTU HHV PPG I WXYYZZA2A2 PPLLB2C2RSHHD2RP BB| I saw a famous fountain in my dream | A |
| Where shady path ways to a valley led | B |
| A weeping willow lay upon that stream | A |
| And all around the fountain brink were spread | B |
| Wide branching trees with dark green leaf rich clad | C |
| Forming a doubtful twilight desolate and sad | C |
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| The place was such that whoso enter'd in | D |
| Disrobed was of every earthly thought | E |
| And straight became as one that knew not sin | D |
| Or to the world's first innocence was brought | E |
| Enseem'd it now he stood on holy ground | F |
| In sweet and tender melancholy wrapt around | F |
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| A most strange calm stole o'er my soothed sprite | G |
| Long time I stood and longer had I staid | H |
| When lo I saw saw by the sweet moon light | G |
| Which came in silence o'er that silent shade | H |
| Where near the fountain something like despair | I |
| Made of that weeping willow garlands for her hair | I |
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| And eke with painful fingers she inwove | J |
| Many an uncouth stem of savage thorn | K |
| 'The willow garland that was for her love | J |
| And these her bleeding temples would adorn ' | - |
| With sighs her heart nigh burst salt tears fast fell | L |
| As mournfully she bended o'er that sacred well | L |
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| To whom when I addrest myself to speak | M |
| She lifted up her eyes and nothing said | B |
| The delicate red came mantling o'er her cheek | M |
| And gath'ring up her loose attire she fled | B |
| To the dark covert of that woody shade | H |
| And in her goings seem'd a timid gentle maid | H |
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| Revolving in my mind what this should mean | N |
| And why that lovely lady plained so | O |
| Perplex'd in thought at that mysterious scene | N |
| And doubting if 'twere best to stay or go | O |
| I cast mine eyes in wistful gaze around | F |
| When from the shades came slow a small and plaintive sound | F |
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| 'Psyche am I who love to dwell | L |
| In these brown shades this woody dell | L |
| Where never busy mortal came | P |
| Till now to pry upon my shame | P |
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| At thy feet what thou dost see | Q |
| The waters of repentance be | Q |
| Which night and day I must augment | R |
| With tears like a true penitent | S |
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| If haply so my day of grace | T |
| Be not yet past and this lone place | T |
| O'er shadowy dark excludeth hence | U |
| All thoughts but grief and penitence ' | - |
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| 'Why dost thou weep thou gentle maid | H |
| And wherefore in this barren shade | H |
| Thy hidden thoughts with sorrow feed | V |
| Can thing so fair repentance need ' | - |
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| 'O I have done a deed of shame | P |
| And tainted is my virgin fame | P |
| And stain'd the beauteous maiden white | G |
| In which my bridal robes were dight ' | - |
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| 'And who the promised spouse declare | I |
| And what those bridal garments were ' | - |
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| 'Severe and saintly righteousness | W |
| Compos'd the clear white bridal dress | X |
| Jesus the son of Heaven's high king | Y |
| Bought with his blood the marriage ring | Y |
| A wretched sinful creature I | Z |
| Deem'd lightly of that sacred tie | Z |
| Gave to a treacherous world my heart | A2 |
| And play'd the foolish wanton's part | A2 |
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| Soon to these murky shades I came | P |
| To hide from the sun's light my shame | P |
| And still I haunt this woody dell | L |
| And bathe me in that healing well | L |
| Whose waters clear have influence | B2 |
| From sin's foul stains the soul to cleanse | C2 |
| And night and day I them augment | R |
| With tears like a true penitent | S |
| Until due expiation made | H |
| And fit atonement fully paid | H |
| The lord and bridegroom me present | D2 |
| Where in sweet strains of high consent | R |
| God's throne before the Seraphim | P |
| Shall chaunt the extatic marriage hymn ' | - |
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| 'Now Christ restore thee soon' I said | B |
| And thenceforth all my dream was fled | B |
Charles Lamb
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