Heart's Chill Between Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBC ADED D FGFGFG CHCICI JKJKJL MNMNMN OJOJOJ PJPJPJ| Athenaeum October | A |
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| I did not chide him though I knew | B |
| That he was false to me | C |
| Chide the exhaling of the dew | B |
| The ebbing of the sea | C |
| The fading of a rosy hue | B |
| But not inconstancy | C |
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| Why strive for love when love is o'er | A |
| Why bind a restive heart | D |
| He never knew the pain I bore | E |
| In saying 'We must part | D |
| Let us be friends and nothing more ' | - |
| Oh woman's shallow art | D |
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| But it is over it is done | F |
| I hardly heed it now | G |
| So many weary years have run | F |
| Since then I think not how | G |
| Things might have been but greet each one | F |
| With an unruffled brow | G |
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| What time I am where others be | C |
| My heart seems very calm | H |
| Stone calm but if all go from me | C |
| There comes a vague alarm | I |
| A shrinking in the memory | C |
| From some forgotten harm | I |
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| And often through the long long night | J |
| Waking when none are near | K |
| I feel my heart beat fast with fright | J |
| Yet know not what I fear | K |
| Oh how I long to see the light | J |
| And the sweet birds to hear | L |
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| To have the sun upon my face | M |
| To look up through the trees | N |
| To walk forth in the open space | M |
| And listen to the breeze | N |
| And not to dream the burial place | M |
| Is clogging my weak knees | N |
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| Sometimes I can nor weep nor pray | O |
| But am half stupefied | J |
| And then all those who see me say | O |
| Mine eyes are opened wide | J |
| And that my wits seem gone away | O |
| Ah would that I had died | J |
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| Would I could die and be at peace | P |
| Or living could forget | J |
| My grief nor grows nor doth decrease | P |
| But ever is and yet | J |
| Methinks now that all this shall cease | P |
| Before the sun shall set | J |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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