The Victories Of Love. Book Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEEFFGGBHIJEEKKKK LFFFMKNNOOPPQQKKFFKK HHRRKKKKSS KKFFFFFFTT UUKKFF KKFFKKFFKKKKVVWX AY ZZKKKKA2A2FFDD KKB2QMMKKYYTSC2C2KKM MKKYYFFFFKKD2D2YYKKS SFFKKHHKKKKE2E2YYMKK K F2D2YYFFKKB2QKKFFKK AAKKG2G2KK KKFFFFH2 FFI2I2KKQB2KKFFD2D2Y Y AB2 KKKKFFKKMMFFYYJ2J2KK FFG2G2KKKKKKFFMMFC2I | A |
From Jane To Her Mother | B |
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Thank Heaven the burthens on the heart | C |
Are not half known till they depart | C |
Although I long'd for many a year | D |
To love with love that casts out fear | D |
My Frederick's kindness frighten'd me | E |
And heaven seem'd less far off than he | E |
And in my fancy I would trace | F |
A lady with an angel's face | F |
That made devotion simply debt | G |
Till sick with envy and regret | G |
And wicked grief that God should e'er | B |
Make women and not make them fair | H |
That he might love me more because | I |
Another in his memory was | J |
And that my indigence might be | E |
To him what Baby's was to me | E |
The chief of charms who could have thought | K |
But God's wise way is to give nought | K |
Till we with asking it are tired | K |
And when indeed the change desired | K |
Comes lest we give ourselves the praise | L |
It comes by Providence not Grace | F |
And mostly our thanks for granted pray'rs | F |
Are groans at unexpected cares | F |
First Baby went to heaven you know | M |
And five weeks after Grace went too | K |
Then he became more talkative | N |
And stooping to my heart would give | N |
Signs of his love which pleased me more | O |
Than all the proofs he gave before | O |
And in that time of our great grief | P |
We talk'd religion for relief | P |
For though we very seldom name | Q |
Religion we now think the same | Q |
Oh what a bar is thus removed | K |
To loving and to being loved | K |
For no agreement really is | F |
In anything when none's in this | F |
Why Mother once if Frederick press'd | K |
His wife against his hearty breast | K |
The interior difference seem'd to tear | H |
My own until I could not bear | H |
The trouble 'Twas a dreadful strife | R |
And show'd indeed that faith is life | R |
He never felt this If he did | K |
I'm sure it could not have been hid | K |
For wives I need not say to you | K |
Can feel just what their husbands do | K |
Without a word or look but then | S |
It is not so you know with men | S |
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From that time many a Scripture text | K |
Help'd me which had before perplex'd | K |
Oh what a wond'rous word seem'd this | F |
He is my head as Christ is his | F |
None ever could have dared to see | F |
In marriage such a dignity | F |
For man and for his wife still less | F |
Such happy happy lowliness | F |
Had God Himself not made it plain | T |
This revelation lays the rein | T |
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If I may speak so on the neck | U |
Of a wife's love takes thence the check | U |
Of conscience and forbids to doubt | K |
Its measure is to be without | K |
All measure and a fond excess | F |
Is here her rule of godliness | F |
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I took him not for love but fright | K |
He did but ask a dreadful right | K |
In this was love that he loved me | F |
The first who was mere poverty | F |
All that I know of love he taught | K |
And love is all I know of aught | K |
My merit is so small by his | F |
That my demerit is my bliss | F |
My life is hid with him in Christ | K |
Never thencefrom to be enticed | K |
And in his strength have I such rest | K |
As when the baby on my breast | K |
Finds what it knows not how to seek | V |
And very happy very weak | V |
Lies only knowing all is well | W |
Pillow'd on kindness palpable | X |
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II | A |
From Lady Clitheroe To Mary Churchill | Y |
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Dear Saint I'm still at High Hurst Park | Z |
The house is fill'd with folks of mark | Z |
Honoria suits a good estate | K |
Much better than I hoped How fate | K |
Loads her with happiness and pride | K |
And such a loving lord beside | K |
But between us Sweet everything | A2 |
Has limits and to build a wing | A2 |
To this old house when Courtholm stands | F |
Empty upon his Berkshire lands | F |
And all that Honor might be near | D |
Papa was buying love too dear | D |
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With twenty others there are two | K |
Guests here whose names will startle you | K |
Mr and Mrs Frederick Graham | B2 |
I thought he stay'd away for shame | Q |
He and his wife were ask'd you know | M |
And would not come four years ago | M |
You recollect Miss Smythe found out | K |
Who she had been and all about | K |
Her people at the Powder mill | Y |
And how the fine Aunt tried to instil | Y |
Haut ton and how at last poor Jane | T |
Had got so shy and gauche that when | S |
The Dockyard gentry came to sup | C2 |
She always had to be lock'd up | C2 |
And some one wrote to us and said | K |
Her mother was a kitchen maid | K |
Dear Mary you'll be charm'd to know | M |
It must be all a fib But oh | M |
She is the oddest little Pet | K |
On which my eyes were ever set | K |
She's so outr e and natural | Y |
That when she first arrived we all | Y |
Wonder'd as when a robin comes | F |
In through the window to eat crumbs | F |
At breakfast with us She has sense | F |
Humility and confidence | F |
And save in dressing just a thought | K |
Gayer in colours than she ought | K |
To day she looks a cross between | D2 |
Gipsy and Fairy red and green | D2 |
She always happens to do well | Y |
And yet one never quite can tell | Y |
What she might do or utter next | K |
Lord Clitheroe is much perplex'd | K |
Her husband every now and then | S |
Looks nervous all the other men | S |
Are charm'd Yet she has neither grace | F |
Nor one good feature in her face | F |
Her eyes indeed flame in her head | K |
Like very altar fires to Fred | K |
Whose steps she follows everywhere | H |
Like a tame duck to the despair | H |
Of Colonel Holmes who does his part | K |
To break her funny little heart | K |
Honor's enchanted 'Tis her view | K |
That people if they're good and true | K |
And treated well and let alone | E2 |
Will kindly take to what's their own | E2 |
And always be original | Y |
Like children Honor's just like all | Y |
The rest of us But thinking so | M |
'Tis well she miss'd Lord Clitheroe | K |
Who hates originality | K |
Though he puts up with it in me | K |
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Poor Mrs Graham has never been | F2 |
To the Opera You should have seen | D2 |
The innocent way she told the Earl | Y |
She thought Plays sinful when a girl | Y |
And now she never had a chance | F |
Frederick's complacent smile and glance | F |
Towards her show'd me past a doubt | K |
Honoria had been quite cut out | K |
'Tis very strange for Mrs Graham | B2 |
Though Frederick's fancy none can blame | Q |
Seems the last woman you'd have thought | K |
Her lover would have ever sought | K |
She never reads I find nor goes | F |
Anywhere so that I suppose | F |
She got at all she ever knew | K |
By growing up as kittens do | K |
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Talking of kittens by the bye | A |
You have more influence than I | A |
With dear Honoria Get her Dear | K |
To be a little more severe | K |
With those sweet Children They've the run | G2 |
Of all the place When school was done | G2 |
Maud burst in while the Earl was there | K |
With Oh Mama do be a bear | K |
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Do you know Dear this odd wife of Fred | K |
Adores his old Love in his stead | K |
She is so nice yet I should say | F |
Not quite the thing for every day | F |
Wonders are wearying Felix goes | F |
Next Sunday with her to the Close | F |
And you will judge | H2 |
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Honoria asks | F |
All Wiltshire Belles here Felix basks | F |
Like Puss in fire shine when the room | I2 |
Is thus aflame with female bloom | I2 |
But then she smiles when most would pout | K |
And so his lawless loves go out | K |
With the last brocade 'Tis not the same | Q |
I fear with Mrs Frederick Graham | B2 |
Honoria should not have her here | K |
And this you might just hint my Dear | K |
For Felix says he never saw | F |
Such proof of what he holds for law | F |
That beauty is love which can be seen | D2 |
Whatever he by this may mean | D2 |
Were it not dreadful if he fell | Y |
In love with her on principle | Y |
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III | A |
From Jane To Mrs Graham | B2 |
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Mother I told you how at first | K |
I fear'd this visit to the Hurst | K |
Fred must I felt be so distress'd | K |
By aught in me unlike the rest | K |
Who come here But I find the place | F |
Delightful there's such ease and grace | F |
And kindness and all seem to be | K |
On such a high equality | K |
They have not got to think you know | M |
How far to make the money go | M |
But Frederick says it's less the expense | F |
Of money than of sound good sense | F |
Quickness to care what others feel | Y |
And thoughts with nothing to conceal | Y |
Which I'll teach Johnny Mrs Vaughan | J2 |
Was waiting for us on the Lawn | J2 |
And kiss'd and call'd me Cousin Fred | K |
Neglected his old friends she said | K |
He laugh'd and colour'd up at this | F |
She was you know a flame of his | F |
But I'm not jealous Luncheon done | G2 |
I left him who had just begun | G2 |
To talk about the Russian War | K |
With an old Lady Lady Carr | K |
A Countess but I'm more afraid | K |
A great deal of the Lady's Maid | K |
And went with Mrs Vaughan to see | K |
The pictures which appear'd to be | K |
Of sorts of horses clowns and cows | F |
Call'd Wouvermans and Cuyps and Dows | F |
And then she took me up to show | M |
Her bedroom where long years ago | M |
A Queen slept 'Tis all tapestries | F |
Of Cupi | C2 |
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