The Wife's Will Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCCDD EEFFGG HHIIJJ KKLLDD MMN OO PPQQMR S TTUU GGVVWW XXYYDD RRFFDDA | |
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SIT still a word a breath may break | B |
As light airs stir a sleeping lake | B |
The glassy calm that soothes my woes | C |
The sweet the deep the full repose | C |
O leave me not for ever be | D |
Thus more than life itself to me | D |
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Yes close beside thee let me kneel | E |
Give me thy hand that I may feel | E |
The friend so true so tried so dear | F |
My heart's own chosen indeed is near | F |
And check me not this hour divine | G |
Belongs to me is fully mine | G |
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'Tis thy own hearth thou sitt'st beside | H |
After long absence wandering wide | H |
'Tis thy own wife reads in thine eyes | I |
A promise clear of stormless skies | I |
For faith and true love light the rays | J |
Which shine responsive to her gaze | J |
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Aye well that single tear may fall | K |
Ten thousand might mine eyes recall | K |
Which from their lids ran blinding fast | L |
In hours of grief yet scarcely past | L |
Well may'st thou speak of love to me | D |
For oh most truly I love thee | D |
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Yet smile for we are happy now | M |
Whence then that sadness on thy brow | M |
What say'st thou ' We must once again | N |
Ere long be severed by the main ' | - |
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 | M |
Hear and confirm with thee I go | R |
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' Distance and suffering ' did'st thou say | S |
' Danger by night and toil by day ' | - |
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 | G |
Thy toils thy perils shall be mine | G |
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 | D |
Loved with my perfect energy | D |
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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 | F |
Is warned our hearts to come not near | F |
For fate admits my soul's decree | D |
In bliss or bale to go with thee | D |
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