Frances Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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SHE will not sleep for fear of dreamsA
But rising quits her restless bedB
And walks where some beclouded beamsA
Of moonlight through the hall are shedB
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Obedient to the goad of griefC
Her steps now fast now lingering slowD
In varying motion seek reliefC
From the Eumenides of woeD
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Wringing her hands at intervalsE
But long as mute as phantom dimF
She glides along the dusky wallsG
Under the black oak rafters grimF
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The close air of the grated towerH
Stifles a heart that scarce can beatI
And though so late and lone the hourH
Forth pass her wandering faltering feetI
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And on the pavement spread beforeJ
The long front of the mansion greyK
Her steps imprint the night frost hoarJ
Which pale on grass and granite layK
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Not long she stayed where misty moonL
And shimmering stars could on her lookM
But through the garden arch way soonL
Her strange and gloomy path she tookM
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Some firs coeval with the towerH
Their straight black boughs stretched o'er her headB
Unseen beneath this sable bowerH
Rustled her dress and rapid treadB
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There was an alcove in that shadeN
Screening a rustic seat and standO
Weary she sat her down and laidN
Her hot brow on her burning handO
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To solitude and to the nightP
Some words she now in murmurs saidB
And trickling through her fingers whiteP
Some tears of misery she shedB
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' God help me in my grievous needQ
God help me in my inward painR
Which cannot ask for pity's meedQ
Which has no license to complainR
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Which must be borne yet who can bearS
Hours long days long a constant weightQ
The yoke of absolute despairS
A suffering wholly desolateQ
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Who can for ever crush the heartQ
Restrain its throbbing curb its lifeT
Dissemble truth with ceaseless artQ
With outward calm mask inward strife '-
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She waited as for some replyU
The still and cloudy night gave noneV
Erelong with deep drawn trembling sighU
Her heavy plaint again begunV
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' Unloved I love unwept I weepW
Grief I restrain hope I repressX
Vain is this anguish fixed and deepW
Vainer desires and dreams of blissY
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My love awakes no love againZ
My tears collect and fall unfeltQ
My sorrow touches none with painR
My humble hopes to nothing meltQ
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For me the universe is dumbA2
Stone deaf and blank and wholly blindQ
Life I must bound existence sumA2
In the strait limits of one mindQ
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That mind my own Oh narrow cellB2
Dark imageless a living tombC2
There must I sleep there wake and dwellB2
Content with palsy pain and gloom '-
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Again she paused a moan of painR
A stifled sob alone was heardQ
Long silence followed then againZ
Her voice the stagnant midnight stirredQ
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' Must it be so Is this my fateQ
Can I nor struggle nor contendQ
And am I doomed for years to waitQ
Watching death's lingering axe descendQ
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And when it falls and when I dieQ
What follows Vacant nothingnessD2
The blank of lost identityQ
Erasure both of pain and blissY
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I've heard of heaven I would believeE2
For if this earth indeed be allF2
Who longest lives may deepest grieveE2
Most blest whom sorrows soonest callF2
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Oh leaving disappointment hereG2
Will man find hope on yonder coastQ
Hope which on earth shines never clearH2
And oft in clouds is wholly lostQ
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Will he hope's source of light beholdQ
Fruition's spring where doubts expireI2
And drink in waves of living goldQ
Contentment full for long desireH
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Will he find bliss which here he dreamedQ
Rest which was weariness on earthJ2
Knowledge which if o'er life it beamedQ
Served but to prove it void of worthJ2
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Will he find love without lust's leavenV
Love fearless tearless perfect pureK2
To all with equal bounty givenV
In all unfeigned unfailing sureK2
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Will he from penal sufferings freeQ
Released from shroud and wormy clodQ
All calm and glorious rise and seeQ
Creation's Sire Existence' GodQ
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Then glancing back on Time's brief woesL2
Will he behold them fading flyQ
Swept from Eternity's reposeL2
Like sullying cloud from pure blue skyQ
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If so endure my weary frameM2
And when thy anguish strikes too deepW
And when all troubled burns life's flameM2
Think of the quiet final sleepW
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Think of the glorious waking hourH
Which will not dawn on grief and tearsN2
But on a ransomed spirit's powerH
Certain and free from mortal fearsO2
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Seek now thy couch and lie till mornP2
Then from thy chamber calm descendQ
With mind nor tossed nor anguish tornP2
But tranquil fixed to wait the endQ
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And when thy opening eyes shall seeQ
Mementos on the chamber wallF2
Of one who has forgotten theeQ
Shed not the tear of acrid gallF2
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The tear which welling from the heartQ
Burns where its drop corrosive fallsG
And makes each nerve in torture startQ
At feelings it too well recallsG
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When the sweet hope of being lovedQ
Threw Eden sunshine on life's wayK
When every sense and feeling provedQ
Expectancy of brightest dayK
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When the hand trembled to receiveE2
A thrilling clasp which seemed so nearH2
And the heart ventured to believeE2
Another heart esteemed it dearH2
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When words half love all tendernessD2
Were hourly heard as hourly spokenV
When the long sunny days of blissY
Only by moonlight nights were brokenV
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Till drop by drop the cup of joyQ2
Filled full with purple light was glowingR2
And Faith which watched it sparkling highQ
Still never dreamt the overflowingR2
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It fell not with a sudden crashingR2
It poured not out like open sluiceS2
No sparkling still and redly flashingR2
Drained drop by drop the generous juiceS2
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I saw it sink and strove to taste itQ
My eager lips approached the brimF
The movement only seemed to waste itQ
It sank to dregs all harsh and dimF
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These I have drank and they for everH
Have poisoned life and love for meQ
A draught from Sodom's lake could neverH
More fiery salt and bitter beQ
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Oh Love was all a thin illusionV
Joy but the desert's flying streamT2
And glancing back on long delusionV
My memory grasps a hollow dreamT2
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Yet whence that wondrous change of feelingR2
I never knew and cannot learnU2
Nor why my lover's eye congealingR2
Grew cold and clouded proud and sternU2
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Nor wherefore friendship's forms forgettingR2
He careless left and cool withdrewV2
Nor spoke of grief nor fond regrettingR2
Nor even one glance of comfort threwV2
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And neither word nor token sendingR2
Of kindness since the parting dayK
His course for distant regions bendingR2
Went self contained and calm awayK
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Oh bitter blighting keen sensationV
Which will not weaken cannot dieQ
Hasten thy work of desolationV
And let my tortured spirit flyQ
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Vain as the passing gale my cryingR2
Though lightning struck I must live onW2
I know at heart there is no dyingR2
Of love and ruined hope aloneX2
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Still strong and young and warm with vigourV2
Though scathed I long shall greenly growV2
And many a storm of wildest rigourV2
Shall yet break o'er my shivered boughY2
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Rebellious now to blank inertionX2
My unused strength demands a taskR2
Travel and toil and full exertionX2
Are the last only boon I askR2
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Whence then this vain and barren dreamingR2
Of death and dubious life to comeA2
I see a nearer beacon gleamingR2
Over dejection's sea of gloomC2
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The very wildness of my sorrowV2
Tells me I yet have innate forceZ2
My track of life has been too narrowV2
Effort shall trace a broader courseZ2
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The world is not in yonder towerV2
Earth is not prisoned in that roomC2
'Mid whose dark pannels hour by hourV2
I've sat the slave and prey of gloomC2
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One feeling turned to utter anguishA3
Is not my being's only aimM2
When lorn and loveless life will languishA3
But courage can revive the flameM2
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He when he left me went a rovingR2
To sunny climes beyond the seaQ
And I the weight oV2

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