Gilbert. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF HIJIKILI FAMKNAIA OPIPQLRL STUTVIWI XYPYZA2B2A2 C2FIFD2IE2I F2IG2IIH2IH2 IIIII2ZIZ PJ2IJ2ISK2S L2M2N2O2PP2IP2 Q2R2IS2T2ZA2Z WU2IU2IV2IV2 W2ITIX2Y2IY2 PZ2IZ2A2IPI IFN2A3YB3C3A2 A2 M2IM2IX2IX2I PIPID3Z2D3Z2 D2E3D2M2PO2X2M2 H2D3H2D3IIII F3G3H3I3IIII J3K3J3K3T2PT2P H3F2F3F2B3IB3I IPIPL3Z2L3Z2 MIM3IN3T2N3T2 D2O3D2O3IP3IP3 Q3IQ3IIP3IP3 P3R3P3R3S3AS3A AP3AP3IP3IP3 P3LP3LT3P3T3P3 U3LU3LILIL E3Q2E3Q2P3IP3I P2IP2IP3IP3I ILILS3IS3I LLLLP3IP3I ILILILIL P3E3P3E3V3IV3I IIIV2LILI IW3IW3LILI X3P3X3P3IIII P3Y3P3Y3ITIT F3 BR2A3S2IR2IR2 P3YP3YIIII IX2IX2P3P3P3P3 IO2IM2R2FR2B P3IP3IP3B3P3B3 Q3X2Q3X2Z3IA4I B4X2B4X2IC4IC4 IE3IM2IP3IP3 P3IP3IILIL D2K2D2K2X3I2X3I2

I The Garden	A
	-
Above the city hung the moon	B
Right o'er a plot of ground	C
Where flowers and orchard trees were fenced	D
With lofty walls around	C
'Twas Gilbert's garden there to night	E
Awhile he walked alone	F
And tired with sedentary toil	G
Mused where the moonlight shone	F
	-
This garden in a city heart	H
Lay still as houseless wild	I
Though many windowed mansion fronts	J
Were round it closely piled	I
But thick their walls and those within	K
Lived lives by noise unstirred	I
Like wafting of an angel's wing	L
Time's flight by them was heard	I
	-
Some soft piano notes alone	F
Were sweet as faintly given	A
Where ladies doubtless cheered the hearth	M
With song that winter even	K
The city's many mingled sounds	N
Rose like the hum of ocean	A
They rather lulled the heart than roused	I
Its pulse to faster motion	A
	-
Gilbert has paced the single walk	O
An hour yet is not weary	P
And though it be a winter night	I
He feels nor cold nor dreary	P
The prime of life is in his veins	Q
And sends his blood fast flowing	L
And Fancy's fervour warms the thoughts	R
Now in his bosom glowing	L
	-
Those thoughts recur to early love	S
Or what he love would name	T
Though haply Gilbert's secret deeds	U
Might other title claim	T
Such theme not oft his mind absorbs	V
He to the world clings fast	I
And too much for the present lives	W
To linger o'er the past	I
	-
But now the evening's deep repose	X
Has glided to his soul	Y
That moonlight falls on Memory	P
And shows her fading scroll	Y
One name appears in every line	Z
The gentle rays shine o'er	A2
And still he smiles and still repeats	B2
That one name Elinor	A2
	-
There is no sorrow in his smile	C2
No kindness in his tone	F
The triumph of a selfish heart	I
Speaks coldly there alone	F
He says She loved me more than life	D2
And truly it was sweet	I
To see so fair a woman kneel	E2
In bondage at my feet	I
	-
There was a sort of quiet bliss	F2
To be so deeply loved	I
To gaze on trembling eagerness	G2
And sit myself unmoved	I
And when it pleased my pride to grant	I
At last some rare caress	H2
To feel the fever of that hand	I
My fingers deigned to press	H2
	-
'Twas sweet to see her strive to hide	I
What every glance revealed	I
Endowed the while with despot might	I
Her destiny to wield	I
I knew myself no perfect man	I2
Nor as she deemed divine	Z
I knew that I was glorious but	I
By her reflected shine	Z
	-
Her youth her native energy	P
Her powers new born and fresh	J2
'Twas these with Godhead sanctified	I
My sensual frame of flesh	J2
Yet like a god did I descend	I
At last to meet her love	S
And like a god I then withdrew	K2
To my own heaven above	S
	-
And never more could she invoke	L2
My presence to her sphere	M2
No prayer no plaint no cry of hers	N2
Could win my awful ear	O2
I knew her blinded constancy	P
Would ne'er my deeds betray	P2
And calm in conscience whole in heart	I
I went my tranquil way	P2
	-
Yet sometimes I still feel a wish	Q2
The fond and flattering pain	R2
Of passion's anguish to create	I
In her young breast again	S2
Bright was the lustre of her eyes	T2
When they caught fire from mine	Z
If I had power this very hour	A2
Again I'd light their shine	Z
	-
But where she is or how she lives	W
I have no clue to know	U2
I've heard she long my absence pined	I
And left her home in woe	U2
But busied then in gathering gold	I
As I am busied now	V2
I could not turn from such pursuit	I
To weep a broken vow	V2
	-
Nor could I give to fatal risk	W2
The fame I ever prized	I
Even now I fear that precious fame	T
Is too much compromised	I
An inward trouble dims his eye	X2
Some riddle he would solve	Y2
Some method to unloose a knot	I
His anxious thoughts revolve	Y2
	-
He pensive leans against a tree	P
A leafy evergreen	Z2
The boughs the moonlight intercept	I
And hide him like a screen	Z2
He starts the tree shakes with his tremor	A2
Yet nothing near him pass'd	I
He hurries up the garden alley	P
In strangely sudden haste	I
	-
With shaking hand he lifts the latchet	I
Steps o'er the threshold stone	F
The heavy door slips from his fingers	N2
It shuts and he is gone	A3
What touched transfixed appalled his soul	Y
A nervous thought no more	B3
'Twill sink like stone in placid pool	C3
And calm close smoothly o'er	A2
	-
	-
II The Parlour	A2
	-
Warm is the parlour atmosphere	M2
Serene the lamp's soft light	I
The vivid embers red and clear	M2
Proclaim a frosty night	I
Books varied on the table lie	X2
Three children o'er them bend	I
And all with curious eager eye	X2
The turning leaf attend	I
	-
Picture and tale alternately	P
Their simple hearts delight	I
And interest deep and tempered glee	P
Illume their aspects bright	I
The parents from their fireside place	D3
Behold that pleasant scene	Z2
And joy is on the mother's face	D3
Pride in the father's mien	Z2
	-
As Gilbert sees his blooming wife	D2
Beholds his children fair	E3
No thought has he of transient strife	D2
Or past though piercing fear	M2
The voice of happy infancy	P
Lisps sweetly in his ear	O2
His wife with pleased and peaceful eye	X2
Sits kindly smiling near	M2
	-
The fire glows on her silken dress	H2
And shows its ample grace	D3
And warmly tints each hazel tress	H2
Curled soft around her face	D3
The beauty that in youth he wooed	I
Is beauty still unfaded	I
The brow of ever placid mood	I
No churlish grief has shaded	I
	-
Prosperity in Gilbert's home	F3
Abides the guest of years	G3
There Want or Discord never come	H3
And seldom Toil or Tears	I3
The carpets bear the peaceful print	I
Of comfort's velvet tread	I
And golden gleams from plenty sent	I
In every nook are shed	I
	-
The very silken spaniel seems	J3
Of quiet ease to tell	K3
As near its mistress' feet it dreams	J3
Sunk in a cushion's swell	K3
And smiles seem native to the eyes	T2
Of those sweet children three	P
They have but looked on tranquil skies	T2
And know not misery	P
	-
Alas that Misery should come	H3
In such an hour as this	F2
Why could she not so calm a home	F3
A little longer miss	F2
But she is now within the door	B3
Her steps advancing glide	I
Her sullen shade has crossed the floor	B3
She stands at Gilbert's side	I
	-
She lays her hand upon his heart	I
It bounds with agony	P
His fireside chair shakes with the start	I
That shook the garden tree	P
His wife towards the children looks	L3
She does not mark his mien	Z2
The children bending o'er their books	L3
His terror have not seen	Z2
	-
In his own home by his own hearth	M
He sits in solitude	I
And circled round with light and mirth	M3
Cold horror chills his blood	I
His mind would hold with desperate clutch	N3
The scene that round him lies	T2
No changed as by some wizard's touch	N3
The present prospect flies	T2
	-
A tumult vague a viewless strife	D2
His futile struggles crush	O3
'Twixt him and his an unknown life	D2
And unknown feelings rush	O3
He sees but scarce can language paint	I
The tissue fancy weaves	P3
For words oft give but echo faint	I
Of thoughts the mind conceives	P3
	-
Noise tumult strange and darkness dim	Q3
Efface both light and quiet	I
No shape is in those shadows grim	Q3
No voice in that wild riot	I
Sustain'd and strong a wondrous blast	I
Above and round him blows	P3
A greenish gloom dense overcast	I
Each moment denser grows	P3
	-
He nothing knows nor clearly sees	P3
Resistance checks his breath	R3
The high impetuous ceaseless breeze	P3
Blows on him cold as death	R3
And still the undulating gloom	S3
Mocks sight with formless motion	A
Was such sensation Jonah's doom	S3
Gulphed in the depths of ocean	A
	-
Streaking the air the nameless vision	A
Fast driven deep sounding flows	P3
Oh whence its source and what its mission	A
How will its terrors close	P3
Long sweeping rushing vast and void	I
The universe it swallows	P3
And still the dark devouring tide	I
A typhoon tempest follows	P3
	-
More slow it rolls its furious race	P3
Sinks to its solemn gliding	L
The stunning roar the wind's wild chase	P3
To stillness are subsiding	L
And slowly borne along a form	T3
The shapeless chaos varies	P3
Poised in the eddy to the storm	T3
Before the eye it tarries	P3
	-
A woman drowned sunk in the deep	U3
On a long wave reclining	L
The circling waters' crystal sweep	U3
Like glass her shape enshrining	L
Her pale dead face to Gilbert turned	I
Seems as in sleep reposing	L
A feeble light now first discerned	I
The features well disclosing	L
	-
No effort from the haunted air	E3
The ghastly scene could banish	Q2
That hovering wave arrested there	E3
Rolled throbbed but did not vanish	Q2
If Gilbert upward turned his gaze	P3
He saw the ocean shadow	I
If he looked down the endless seas	P3
Lay green as summer meadow	I
	-
And straight before the pale corpse lay	P2
Upborne by air or billow	I
So near he could have touched the spray	P2
That churned around its pillow	I
The hollow anguish of the face	P3
Had moved a fiend to sorrow	I
Not death's fixed calm could rase the trace	P3
Of suffering's deep worn furrow	I
	-
All moved a strong returning blast	I
The mass of waters raising	L
Bore wave and passive carcase past	I
While Gilbert yet was gazing	L
Deep in her isle conceiving womb	S3
It seemed the ocean thundered	I
And soon by realms of rushing gloom	S3
Were seer and phantom sundered	I
	-
Then swept some timbers from a wreck	L
On following surges riding	L
Then sea weed in the turbid rack	L
Uptorn went slowly gliding	L
The horrid shade by slow degrees	P3
A beam of light defeated	I
And then the roar of raving seas	P3
Fast far and faint retreated	I
	-
And all was gone gone like a mist	I
Corse billows tempest wreck	L
Three children close to Gilbert prest	I
And clung around his neck	L
Good night good night the prattlers said	I
And kissed their father's cheek	L
'Twas now the hour their quiet bed	I
And placid rest to seek	L
	-
The mother with her offspring goes	P3
To hear their evening prayer	E3
She nought of Gilbert's vision knows	P3
And nought of his despair	E3
Yet pitying God abridge the time	V3
Of anguish now his fate	I
Though haply great has been his crime	V3
Thy mercy too is great	I
	-
Gilbert at length uplifts his head	I
Bent for some moments low	I
And there is neither grief nor dread	I
Upon his subtle brow	V2
For well can he his feelings task	L
And well his looks command	I
His features well his heart can mask	L
With smiles and smoothness bland	I
	-
Gilbert has reasoned with his mind	I
He says 'twas all a dream	W3
He strives his inward sight to blind	I
Against truth's inward beam	W3
He pitied not that shadowy thing	L
When it was flesh and blood	I
Nor now can pity's balmy spring	L
Refresh his arid mood	I
	-
And if that dream has spoken truth	X3
Thus musingly he says	P3
If Elinor be dead in sooth	X3
Such chance the shock repays	P3
A net was woven round my feet	I
I scarce could further go	I
Ere shame had forced a fast retreat	I
Dishonour brought me low	I
	-
Conceal her then deep silent sea	P3
Give her a secret grave	Y3
She sleeps in peace and I am free	P3
No longer terror's slave	Y3
And homage still from all the world	I
Shall greet my spotless name	T
Since surges break and waves are curled	I
Above its threatened shame	T
	-
	-
III The Welcome Home	F3
	-
Above the city hangs the moon	B
Some clouds are boding rain	R2
Gilbert erewhile on journey gone	A3
To night comes home again	S2
Ten years have passed above his head	I
Each year has brought him gain	R2
His prosperous life has smoothly sped	I
Without or tear or stain	R2
	-
'Tis somewhat late the city clocks	P3
Twelve deep vibrations toll	Y
As Gilbert at the portal knocks	P3
Which is his journey's goal	Y
The street is still and desolate	I
The moon hid by a cloud	I
Gilbert impatient will not wait	I
His second knock peals loud	I
	-
The clocks are hushed there's not a light	I
In any window nigh	X2
And not a single planet bright	I
Looks from the clouded sky	X2
The air is raw the rain descends	P3
A bitter north wind blows	P3
His cloak the traveller scarce defends	P3
Will not the door unclose	P3
	-
He knocks the third time and the last	I
His summons now they hear	O2
Within a footstep hurrying fast	I
Is heard approaching near	M2
The bolt is drawn the clanking chain	R2
Falls to the floor of stone	F
And Gilbert to his heart will strain	R2
His wife and children soon	B
	-
The hand that lifts the latchet holds	P3
A candle to his sight	I
And Gilbert on the step beholds	P3
A woman clad in white	I
Lo water from her dripping dress	P3
Runs on the streaming floor	B3
From every dark and clinging tress	P3
The drops incessant pour	B3
	-
There's none but her to welcome him	Q3
She holds the candle high	X2
And motionless in form and limb	Q3
Stands cold and silent nigh	X2
There's sand and sea weed on her robe	Z3
Her hollow eyes are blind	I
No pulse in such a frame can throb	A4
No life is there defined	I
	-
Gilbert turned ashy white but still	B4
His lips vouchsafed no cry	X2
He spurred his strength and master will	B4
To pass the figure by	X2
But moving slow it faced him straight	I
It would not flinch nor quail	C4
Then first did Gilbert's strength abate	I
His stony firmness quail	C4
	-
He sank upon his knees and prayed	I
The shape stood rigid there	E3
He called aloud for human aid	I
No human aid was near	M2
An accent strange did thus repeat	I
Heaven's stern but just decree	P3
The measure thou to her didst mete	I
To thee shall measured be	P3
	-
Gilbert sprang from his bended knees	P3
By the pale spectre pushed	I
And wild as one whom demons seize	P3
Up the hall staircase rushed	I
Entered his chamber near the bed	I
Sheathed steel and fire arms hung	L
Impelled by maniac purpose dread	I
He chose those stores among	L
	-
Across his throat a keen edged knife	D2
With vigorous hand he drew	K2
The wound was wide his outraged life	D2
Rushed rash and redly through	K2
And thus died by a shameful death	X3
A wise and worldly man	I2
Who never drew but selfish breath	X3
Since first his life began	I2

Charlotte Bronte

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