Frances Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM HBHB NONO PBPB QRQR SQSQ QTQ UVUV WXWY ZQRQ A2QA2Q B2C2B2 RQZQ QQQQ QD2QY E2F2E2F2 G2QH2Q QI2QH QJ2QJ2 VK2VK2 QQQQ L2QL2Q M2WM2W HN2HO2 P2QP2Q QF2QF2 QGQG QKQK E2H2E2H2 D2VYV Q2R2QR2 R2S2R2S2 QFQF HQHQ VT2VT2 R2U2R2U2 R2V2R2V2 R2KR2K VQVQ R2W2R2X2 V2V2V2Y2 X2R2X2R2 R2A2R2C2 V2Z2V2Z2 V2C2V2C2 A3M2A3M2 R2QV2SHE will not sleep for fear of dreams | A |
But rising quits her restless bed | B |
And walks where some beclouded beams | A |
Of moonlight through the hall are shed | B |
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Obedient to the goad of grief | C |
Her steps now fast now lingering slow | D |
In varying motion seek relief | C |
From the Eumenides of woe | D |
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Wringing her hands at intervals | E |
But long as mute as phantom dim | F |
She glides along the dusky walls | G |
Under the black oak rafters grim | F |
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The close air of the grated tower | H |
Stifles a heart that scarce can beat | I |
And though so late and lone the hour | H |
Forth pass her wandering faltering feet | I |
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And on the pavement spread before | J |
The long front of the mansion grey | K |
Her steps imprint the night frost hoar | J |
Which pale on grass and granite lay | K |
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Not long she stayed where misty moon | L |
And shimmering stars could on her look | M |
But through the garden arch way soon | L |
Her strange and gloomy path she took | M |
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Some firs coeval with the tower | H |
Their straight black boughs stretched o'er her head | B |
Unseen beneath this sable bower | H |
Rustled her dress and rapid tread | B |
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There was an alcove in that shade | N |
Screening a rustic seat and stand | O |
Weary she sat her down and laid | N |
Her hot brow on her burning hand | O |
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To solitude and to the night | P |
Some words she now in murmurs said | B |
And trickling through her fingers white | P |
Some tears of misery she shed | B |
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' God help me in my grievous need | Q |
God help me in my inward pain | R |
Which cannot ask for pity's meed | Q |
Which has no license to complain | R |
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Which must be borne yet who can bear | S |
Hours long days long a constant weight | Q |
The yoke of absolute despair | S |
A suffering wholly desolate | Q |
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Who can for ever crush the heart | Q |
Restrain its throbbing curb its life | T |
Dissemble truth with ceaseless art | Q |
With outward calm mask inward strife ' | - |
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She waited as for some reply | U |
The still and cloudy night gave none | V |
Erelong with deep drawn trembling sigh | U |
Her heavy plaint again begun | V |
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' Unloved I love unwept I weep | W |
Grief I restrain hope I repress | X |
Vain is this anguish fixed and deep | W |
Vainer desires and dreams of bliss | Y |
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My love awakes no love again | Z |
My tears collect and fall unfelt | Q |
My sorrow touches none with pain | R |
My humble hopes to nothing melt | Q |
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For me the universe is dumb | A2 |
Stone deaf and blank and wholly blind | Q |
Life I must bound existence sum | A2 |
In the strait limits of one mind | Q |
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That mind my own Oh narrow cell | B2 |
Dark imageless a living tomb | C2 |
There must I sleep there wake and dwell | B2 |
Content with palsy pain and gloom ' | - |
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Again she paused a moan of pain | R |
A stifled sob alone was heard | Q |
Long silence followed then again | Z |
Her voice the stagnant midnight stirred | Q |
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' Must it be so Is this my fate | Q |
Can I nor struggle nor contend | Q |
And am I doomed for years to wait | Q |
Watching death's lingering axe descend | Q |
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And when it falls and when I die | Q |
What follows Vacant nothingness | D2 |
The blank of lost identity | Q |
Erasure both of pain and bliss | Y |
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I've heard of heaven I would believe | E2 |
For if this earth indeed be all | F2 |
Who longest lives may deepest grieve | E2 |
Most blest whom sorrows soonest call | F2 |
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Oh leaving disappointment here | G2 |
Will man find hope on yonder coast | Q |
Hope which on earth shines never clear | H2 |
And oft in clouds is wholly lost | Q |
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Will he hope's source of light behold | Q |
Fruition's spring where doubts expire | I2 |
And drink in waves of living gold | Q |
Contentment full for long desire | H |
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Will he find bliss which here he dreamed | Q |
Rest which was weariness on earth | J2 |
Knowledge which if o'er life it beamed | Q |
Served but to prove it void of worth | J2 |
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Will he find love without lust's leaven | V |
Love fearless tearless perfect pure | K2 |
To all with equal bounty given | V |
In all unfeigned unfailing sure | K2 |
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Will he from penal sufferings free | Q |
Released from shroud and wormy clod | Q |
All calm and glorious rise and see | Q |
Creation's Sire Existence' God | Q |
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Then glancing back on Time's brief woes | L2 |
Will he behold them fading fly | Q |
Swept from Eternity's repose | L2 |
Like sullying cloud from pure blue sky | Q |
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If so endure my weary frame | M2 |
And when thy anguish strikes too deep | W |
And when all troubled burns life's flame | M2 |
Think of the quiet final sleep | W |
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Think of the glorious waking hour | H |
Which will not dawn on grief and tears | N2 |
But on a ransomed spirit's power | H |
Certain and free from mortal fears | O2 |
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Seek now thy couch and lie till morn | P2 |
Then from thy chamber calm descend | Q |
With mind nor tossed nor anguish torn | P2 |
But tranquil fixed to wait the end | Q |
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And when thy opening eyes shall see | Q |
Mementos on the chamber wall | F2 |
Of one who has forgotten thee | Q |
Shed not the tear of acrid gall | F2 |
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The tear which welling from the heart | Q |
Burns where its drop corrosive falls | G |
And makes each nerve in torture start | Q |
At feelings it too well recalls | G |
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When the sweet hope of being loved | Q |
Threw Eden sunshine on life's way | K |
When every sense and feeling proved | Q |
Expectancy of brightest day | K |
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When the hand trembled to receive | E2 |
A thrilling clasp which seemed so near | H2 |
And the heart ventured to believe | E2 |
Another heart esteemed it dear | H2 |
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When words half love all tenderness | D2 |
Were hourly heard as hourly spoken | V |
When the long sunny days of bliss | Y |
Only by moonlight nights were broken | V |
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Till drop by drop the cup of joy | Q2 |
Filled full with purple light was glowing | R2 |
And Faith which watched it sparkling high | Q |
Still never dreamt the overflowing | R2 |
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It fell not with a sudden crashing | R2 |
It poured not out like open sluice | S2 |
No sparkling still and redly flashing | R2 |
Drained drop by drop the generous juice | S2 |
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I saw it sink and strove to taste it | Q |
My eager lips approached the brim | F |
The movement only seemed to waste it | Q |
It sank to dregs all harsh and dim | F |
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These I have drank and they for ever | H |
Have poisoned life and love for me | Q |
A draught from Sodom's lake could never | H |
More fiery salt and bitter be | Q |
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Oh Love was all a thin illusion | V |
Joy but the desert's flying stream | T2 |
And glancing back on long delusion | V |
My memory grasps a hollow dream | T2 |
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Yet whence that wondrous change of feeling | R2 |
I never knew and cannot learn | U2 |
Nor why my lover's eye congealing | R2 |
Grew cold and clouded proud and stern | U2 |
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Nor wherefore friendship's forms forgetting | R2 |
He careless left and cool withdrew | V2 |
Nor spoke of grief nor fond regretting | R2 |
Nor even one glance of comfort threw | V2 |
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And neither word nor token sending | R2 |
Of kindness since the parting day | K |
His course for distant regions bending | R2 |
Went self contained and calm away | K |
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Oh bitter blighting keen sensation | V |
Which will not weaken cannot die | Q |
Hasten thy work of desolation | V |
And let my tortured spirit fly | Q |
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Vain as the passing gale my crying | R2 |
Though lightning struck I must live on | W2 |
I know at heart there is no dying | R2 |
Of love and ruined hope alone | X2 |
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Still strong and young and warm with vigour | V2 |
Though scathed I long shall greenly grow | V2 |
And many a storm of wildest rigour | V2 |
Shall yet break o'er my shivered bough | Y2 |
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Rebellious now to blank inertion | X2 |
My unused strength demands a task | R2 |
Travel and toil and full exertion | X2 |
Are the last only boon I ask | R2 |
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Whence then this vain and barren dreaming | R2 |
Of death and dubious life to come | A2 |
I see a nearer beacon gleaming | R2 |
Over dejection's sea of gloom | C2 |
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The very wildness of my sorrow | V2 |
Tells me I yet have innate force | Z2 |
My track of life has been too narrow | V2 |
Effort shall trace a broader course | Z2 |
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The world is not in yonder tower | V2 |
Earth is not prisoned in that room | C2 |
'Mid whose dark pannels hour by hour | V2 |
I've sat the slave and prey of gloom | C2 |
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One feeling turned to utter anguish | A3 |
Is not my being's only aim | M2 |
When lorn and loveless life will languish | A3 |
But courage can revive the flame | M2 |
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He when he left me went a roving | R2 |
To sunny climes beyond the sea | Q |
And I the weight o | V2 |
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