The Wife's Will. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII JJKKCC LLMNOO PPQQLR SSTTUU FFVVWW XXYYCC RREECC| Sit still a word a breath may break | A |
| As light airs stir a sleeping lake | A |
| The glassy calm that soothes my woes | B |
| The sweet the deep the full repose | B |
| O leave me not for ever be | C |
| Thus more than life itself to me | C |
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| Yes close beside thee let me kneel | D |
| Give me thy hand that I may feel | D |
| The friend so true so tried so dear | E |
| My heart's own chosen indeed is near | E |
| And check me not this hour divine | F |
| Belongs to me is fully mine | F |
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| 'Tis thy own hearth thou sitt'st beside | G |
| After long absence wandering wide | G |
| 'Tis thy own wife reads in thine eyes | H |
| A promise clear of stormless skies | H |
| For faith and true love light the rays | I |
| Which shine responsive to her gaze | I |
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| Ay well that single tear may fall | J |
| Ten thousand might mine eyes recall | J |
| Which from their lids ran blinding fast | K |
| In hours of grief yet scarcely past | K |
| Well mayst thou speak of love to me | C |
| For oh most truly I love thee | C |
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| Yet smile for we are happy now | L |
| Whence then that sadness on thy brow | L |
| What sayst thou We muse once again | M |
| Ere long be severed by the main | N |
| I knew not this I deemed no more | O |
| Thy step would err from Britain's shore | O |
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| Duty commands 'Tis true 'tis just | P |
| Thy slightest word I wholly trust | P |
| Nor by request nor faintest sigh | Q |
| Would I to turn thy purpose try | Q |
| But William hear my solemn vow | L |
| Hear and confirm with thee I go | R |
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| Distance and suffering didst thou say | S |
| Danger by night and toil by day | S |
| Oh idle words and vain are these | T |
| Hear me I cross with thee the seas | T |
| Such risk as thou must meet and dare | U |
| I thy true wife will duly share | U |
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| Passive at home I will not pine | F |
| Thy toils thy perils shall be mine | F |
| Grant this and be hereafter paid | V |
| By a warm heart's devoted aid | V |
| 'Tis granted with that yielding kiss | W |
| Entered my soul unmingled bliss | W |
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| Thanks William thanks thy love has joy | X |
| Pure undefiled with base alloy | X |
| 'Tis not a passion false and blind | Y |
| Inspires enchains absorbs my mind | Y |
| Worthy I feel art thou to be | C |
| Loved with my perfect energy | C |
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| This evening now shall sweetly flow | R |
| Lit by our clear fire's happy glow | R |
| And parting's peace embittering fear | E |
| Is warned our hearts to come not near | E |
| For fate admits my soul's decree | C |
| In bliss or bale to go with thee | C |
Charlotte Bronte
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