Apostasy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHGHIJIJ KLK MNMN OPO QRQR STUTMBMV HKHKWXWX YHZHA2B2A2B2 KNKNA2HC2H D2FE2FNKNK F2NF2NL LB| THIS last denial of my faith | A |
| Thou solemn Priest hast heard | B |
| And though upon my bed of death | C |
| I call not back a word | B |
| Point not to thy Madonna Priest | D |
| Thy sightless saint of stone | E |
| She cannot from this burning breast | F |
| Wring one repentant moan | E |
| - | |
| Thou say'st that when a sinless child | G |
| I duly bent the knee | H |
| And prayed to what in marble smiled | G |
| Cold lifeless mute on me | H |
| I did But listen Children spring | I |
| Full soon to riper youth | J |
| And for Love's vow and Wedlock's ring | I |
| I sold my early truth | J |
| - | |
| 'Twas not a grey bare head like thine | K |
| Bent o'er me when I said | L |
| ' That land and God and Faith are mine | K |
| For which thy fathers bled ' | - |
| I see thee not my eyes are dim | M |
| But well I hear thee say | N |
| ' O daughter cease to think of him | M |
| Who led thy soul astray | N |
| - | |
| Between you lies both space and time | O |
| Let leagues and years prevail | P |
| To turn thee from the path of crime | O |
| Back to the Church's pale ' | - |
| And did I need that thou shouldst tell | Q |
| What mighty barriers rise | R |
| To part me from that dungeon cell | Q |
| Where my loved Walter lies | R |
| - | |
| And did I need that thou shouldst taunt | S |
| My dying hour at last | T |
| By bidding this worn spirit pant | U |
| No more for what is past | T |
| Priest must I cease to think of him | M |
| How hollow rings that word | B |
| Can time can tears can distance dim | M |
| The memory of my lord | V |
| - | |
| I said before I saw not thee | H |
| Because an hour agone | K |
| Over my eye balls heavily | H |
| The lids fell down like stone | K |
| But still my spirit's inward sight | W |
| Beholds his image beam | X |
| As fixed as clear as burning bright | W |
| As some red planet's gleam | X |
| - | |
| Talk not of thy Last Sacrament | Y |
| Tell not thy beads for me | H |
| Both rite and prayer are vainly spent | Z |
| As dews upon the sea | H |
| Speak not one word of Heaven above | A2 |
| Rave not of Hell's alarms | B2 |
| Give me but back my Walter's love | A2 |
| Restore me to his arms | B2 |
| - | |
| Then will the bliss of Heaven be won | K |
| Then will Hell shrink away | N |
| As I have seen night's terrors shun | K |
| The conquering steps of day | N |
| 'Tis my religion thus to love | A2 |
| My creed thus fixed to be | H |
| Not Death shall shake nor Priestcraft break | C2 |
| My rock like constancy | H |
| - | |
| - | |
| Now go for at the door there waits | D2 |
| Another stranger guest | F |
| He calls I come my pulse scarce beats | E2 |
| My heart fails in my breast | F |
| Again that voice how far away | N |
| How dreary sounds that tone | K |
| And I methinks am gone astray | N |
| In trackless wastes and lone | K |
| - | |
| I fain would rest a little while | F2 |
| Where can I find a stay | N |
| Till dawn upon the hills shall smile | F2 |
| And show some trodden way | N |
| ' I come I come ' in haste she said | L |
| ' 'Twas Walter's voice I heard ' | - |
| Then up she sprang but fell back dead | L |
| His name her latest word | B |
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