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The Parlour. (from Gilbert) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Warm is the parlour atmosphere	A
Serene the lamp's soft light	B
The vivid embers red and clear	A
Proclaim a frosty night	B
Books varied on the table lie	C
Three children o'er them bend	D
And all with curious eager eye	C
The turning leaf attend	D
	-
Picture and tale alternately	E
Their simple hearts delight	B
And interest deep and tempered glee	E
Illume their aspects bright	B
The parents from their fireside place	F
Behold that pleasant scene	G
And joy is on the mother's face	F
Pride in the father's mien	G
	-
As Gilbert sees his blooming wife	H
Beholds his children fair	I
No thought has he of transient strife	H
Or past though piercing fear	A
The voice of happy infancy	E
Lisps sweetly in his ear	J
His wife with pleased and peaceful eye	C
Sits kindly smiling near	A
	-
The fire glows on her silken dress	K
And shows its ample grace	F
And warmly tints each hazel tress	K
Curled soft around her face	F
The beauty that in youth he wooed	L
Is beauty still unfaded	L
The brow of ever placid mood	L
No churlish grief has shaded	L
	-
Prosperity in Gilbert's home	M
Abides the guest of years	N
There Want or Discord never come	O
And seldom Toil or Tears	P
The carpets bear the peaceful print	L
Of comfort's velvet tread	L
And golden gleams from plenty sent	L
In every nook are shed	L
	-
The very silken spaniel seems	Q
Of quiet ease to tell	R
As near its mistress' feet it dreams	Q
Sunk in a cushion's swell	R
And smiles seem native to the eyes	S
Of those sweet children three	E
They have but looked on tranquil skies	S
And know not misery	E
	-
Alas that Misery should come	O
In such an hour as this	T
Why could she not so calm a home	M
A little longer miss	T
But she is now within the door	U
Her steps advancing glide	L
Her sullen shade has crossed the floor	U
She stands at Gilbert's side	L
	-
She lays her hand upon his heart	L
It bounds with agony	E
His fireside chair shakes with the start	L
That shook the garden tree	E
His wife towards the children looks	V
She does not mark his mien	G
The children bending o'er their books	V
His terror have not seen	G
	-
In his own home by his own hearth	W
He sits in solitude	L
And circled round with light and mirth	X
Cold horror chills his blood	L
His mind would hold with desperate clutch	Y
The scene that round him lies	S
No changed as by some wizard's touch	Y
The present prospect flies	S
	-
A tumult vague a viewless strife	H
His futile struggles crush	Z
'Twixt him and his an unknown life	H
And unknown feelings rush	Z
He sees but scarce can language paint	L
The tissue fancy weaves	A2
For words oft give but echo faint	L
Of thoughts the mind conceives	A2
	-
Noise tumult strange and darkness dim	B2
Efface both light and quiet	L
No shape is in those shadows grim	B2
No voice in that wild riot	L
Sustain'd and strong a wondrous blast	L
Above and round him blows	A2
A greenish gloom dense overcast	L
Each moment denser grows	A2
	-
He nothing knows nor clearly sees	A2
Resistance checks his breath	C2
The high impetuous ceaseless breeze	A2
Blows on him cold as death	C2
And still the undulating gloom	D2
Mocks sight with formless motion	E2
Was such sensation Jonah's doom	D2
Gulphed in the depths of ocean	E2
	-
Streaking the air the nameless vision	E2
Fast driven deep sounding flows	A2
Oh whence its source and what its mission	E2
How will its terrors close	A2
Long sweeping rushing vast and void	L
The universe it swallows	A2
And still the dark devouring tide	L
A typhoon tempest follows	A2
	-
More slow it rolls its furious race	A2
Sinks to its solemn gliding	F2
The stunning roar the wind's wild chase	A2
To stillness are subsiding	F2
And slowly borne along a form	G2
The shapeless chaos varies	A2
Poised in the eddy to the storm	G2
Before the eye it tarries	A2
	-
A woman drowned sunk in the deep	H2
On a long wave reclining	F2
The circling waters' crystal sweep	H2
Like glass her shape enshrining	F2
Her pale dead face to Gilbert turned	L
Seems as in sleep reposing	F2
A feeble light now first discerned	L
The features well disclosing	F2
	-
No effort from the haunted air	I
The ghastly scene could banish	I2
That hovering wave arrested there	I
Rolled throbbed but did not vanish	I2
If Gilbert upward turned his gaze	A2
He saw the ocean shadow	L
If he looked down the endless seas	A2
Lay green as summer meadow	L
	-
And straight before the pale corpse lay	J2
Upborne by air or billow	L
So near he could have touched the spray	J2
That churned around its pillow	L
The hollow anguish of the face	A2
Had moved a fiend to sorrow	L
Not death's fixed calm could rase the trace	A2
Of suffering's deep worn furrow	L
	-
All moved a strong returning blast	L
The mass of waters raising	F2
Bore wave and passive carcase past	L
While Gilbert yet was gazing	F2
Deep in her isle conceiving womb	D2
It seemed the ocean thundered	L
And soon by realms of rushing gloom	D2
Were seer and phantom sundered	L
	-
Then swept some timbers from a wreck	F2
On following surges riding	F2
Then sea weed in the turbid rack	F2
Uptorn went slowly gliding	F2
The horrid shade by slow degrees	A2
A beam of light defeated	L
And then the roar of raving seas	A2
Fast far and faint retreated	L
	-
And all was gone gone like a mist	L
Corse billows tempest wreck	F2
Three children close to Gilbert prest	L
And clung around his neck	F2
Good night good night the prattlers said	L
And kissed their father's cheek	F2
'Twas now the hour their quiet bed	L
And placid rest to seek	F2
	-
The mother with her offspring goes	A2
To hear their evening prayer	I
She nought of Gilbert's vision knows	A2
And nought of his despair	I
Yet pitying God abridge the time	K2
Of anguish now his fate	L
Though haply great has been his crime	K2
Thy mercy too is great	L
	-
Gilbert at length uplifts his head	L
Bent for some moments low	L
And there is neither grief nor dread	L
Upon his subtle brow	L2
For well can he his feelings task	F2
And well his looks command	L
His features well his heart can mask	F2
With smiles and smoothness bland	L
	-
Gilbert has reasoned with his mind	L
He says 'twas all a dream	M2
He strives his inward sight to blind	L
Against truth's inward beam	M2
He pitied not that shadowy thing	F2
When it was flesh and blood	L
Nor now can pity's balmy spring	F2
Refresh his arid mood	L
	-
And if that dream has spoken truth	N2
Thus musingly he says	A2
If Elinor be dead in sooth	N2
Such chance the shock repays	A2
A net was woven round my feet	L
I scarce could further go	L
Ere shame had forced a fast retreat	L
Dishonour brought me low	L
	-
Conceal her then deep silent sea	A2
Give her a secret grave	O2
She sleeps in peace and I am free	A2
No longer terror's slave	O2
And homage still from all the world	L
Shall greet my spotless name	P2
Since surges break and waves are curled	L
Above its threatened shame	P2