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Alma Bell To The Coroner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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What my name is or where I live or if	A
I am that Alma Bell whose name is broached	B
With Elenor Murray's who shall know from this	C
My hand writing I hide in type I send	D
This letter through a friend who will not tell	E
But first since no chance ever yet was mine	F
To speak my heart out since if I had tried	G
These fifteen years ago to tell my heart	H
I must have failed for lack of words and mind	I
I speak my heart out now I knew the soul	J
Of Elenor Murray knew it at the time	K
Have verified my knowledge in these years	L
Who have not lost her have kept touch with her	M
In letters know the splendid sacrifice	N
She made in the war She was a human soul	J
Earth is not blest with often	O
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First I say	P
I knew her when she first came to my class	Q
Turned seventeen just then such blue bell eyes	R
And such a cataract of dark brown hair	S
And such a brow sweet lips and such a way	P
Of talking with a cunning gasp as if	A
To catch breath for the words And such a sense	T
Of fitness beauty delicacy But more	U
Such vital power that shook her silver nerves	V
And made her dim to others but to me	W
She was all sanity of soul her body	W
The instruments of life were overborne	O
By that great flame of hers And if her music	X
Fell sometimes into discord which I doubt	Y
It was her heart strings which could not vibrate	Z
For human weakness what the soul of her	M
Struck for response and when the strings so failed	A2
She was more grieved than I or anyone	O
Who listened and expected more	U
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Well then	O
What was my love I am not loath to tell	E
I could not touch her hand without a thrill	B2
Nor kiss her lips but I felt purified	G
Exalted in some way And if fatigue	C2
The hopeless daily ills of teaching brought	D2
My spirit to distress and if I went	E2
As oftentimes I did to call upon her	M
After the school hours as I heard her step	F2
Responding to my knock my heart went up	G2
Her face framed by the opened door what peace	H2
Was mine to see it peace ineffable	I2
And rest were mine to sit with her and hear	J2
That voice of hers where breath was caught for words	K2
That cunning gasp and pause	L2
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I loved her then	O
Have loved her always love her now no less	M2
I feel her spirit somehow can take out	Y
Her letters photograph and find a joy	N2
That such a soul lived was in truth my soul	J
Must always be my soul	J
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What was this love	O2
Why only this shame nature if you will	B2
But since man's body is not man's alone	O
Nor woman's body wholly feminine	O
A biologic truth our body's souls	P2
Are neither masculine nor feminine	O
But part and part from whence our souls play forth	Q2
Part masculine part feminine this woman	O
Had that of body first which made her soul	J
Or made her soul play in its way and I	R2
Had that of body which made soul of me	W
Play in its way Our music met that's all	S2
And harmonized The flesh's explanation	O
Is not important nor to tell whence comes	T2
A love in the heart the thing is love at last	U2
Love which unites and comforts glorifies	R
Enlarges spirit woos to generous life	V2
Invites to sacrifice to service clothes	W2
This poor dull earth with glory makes the dawn	O
An hour of high resolve the night a hope	X2
For dawn for fuller life the day a time	K
For working out the soul in terms of love	O2
This was my love for Elenor Murray this	C
Her love for me I think Her sacrifice	N
In the war I traced to our love all the good	Y2
Her life set into being into motion	O
Has in it something of this love of ours	Z2
How good is God who gives us love the lens	A3
Through which we see the beauty hid from eyes	R
That have no love no lens	A3
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Then what are spirits	B3
Effluvia material of our bodies	C3
Or is the spirit all the body nothing	D3
Since every atom particle of matter	M
With its interstices of soul divides	E3
Until there is no matter only soul	J
But what is love but of the soul what flesh	F3
Knows love but through the soul May it not be	W
As soul learns love through flesh it may at last	U2
Helped on its way by flesh discard the flesh	F3
As cured men leave their crutches and go on	O
Loving with spirits For it seems to me	W
I must find Elenor Murray as a spirit	G3
Myself a spirit love her as I loved her	M
These years on earth but with a clearer fire	M
Flame that is separate from fuel burning	D3
Eternal through itself	H3
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And here a word	I3
My love for Elenor Murray never had	J3
Other expression than the look of eyes	R
The spiritual thrill of listening to her voice	K3
A hand clasp kiss upon the lips at best	L3
Better to find her soul as Plato says	M3
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Too true I left LeRoy under a cloud	N3
Because of love for Elenor Murray yet	O3
Not lawless love I write now to make clear	P3
What love was mine and you must understand	Q3
But let me tell how life has dealt with me	W
Then judge my purpose dream the quality	W
Of Elenor Murray judge who in some way	P
Somehow has drawn me onward upward too	R3
I hope as I have striven	O
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I did fear	P3
Her safety and her future did reprove	H3
Her conduct its appearance rather more	U
In dread of gossip dread of ways to follow	S3
From such free ways begun at seventeen	O
In innocence out of a vital heart	H
But when a bud is opening what stray bees	C3
Come to drag pollen over it and set	O3
Life going to the end in the fruit of life	H3
O my wish was to keep her for some love	H3
To ripen in a rich maturity	W
My care proved useless or shall I say so	S3
Or anyone say so since no mind knows	T3
What failure here may somewhere prove a gain	O
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There was that man who came into her life	H3
With heart unsatisfied bound to a woman	O
He wedded early Elenor Murray's love	H3
Destroyed this man by human measurements	U3
And he destroyed her so they say But yet	O3
She poured her love upon him lit her soul	J
With brighter flames for love of him At last	U2
She knew no thing but love and sacrifice	N
She wrote me last her life was just one pain	O
Had always been so from the first and now	O
She wished to fling her spirit in the war	U
Give serve nor count the cost win death and God	V3
In service in the war O loveliest soul	J
I pray and pray to meet you once again	O
So was her life a ruin was it waste	W3
She was a prodigal flower that never shut	G3
Its petals even in darkness let her soul	J
Escape when where it would	Y2
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But to myself	H3
I dragged myself to England from LeRoy	N2
And plunged in life philosophies of life	H3
Spinoza and what not read poetry	W
Heard music too Tschaikowsky Wagner all	S2
Who tried to make sound tell the secret thing	D3
That drove me wild in searching love And lovers	Z2
I had one after the other having fallen	O
To that belief the way is by the body	W
But I was fooled and grew by slow degrees	C3
And then there came a wild man in my life	H3
A vagabond a madman genius well	E
We both went mad and I smashed everything	D3
And ran away threw all the world for him	X3
Only to find myself worn out half dead	Y3
At last as it were out of delirium	Z3
And for four years sat by the sea or made	A4
Visits to Paris where I met the man	O
I married Then how strange I gave myself	H3
Wholly to bearing children just to find	I
Some explanation of myself some work	B4
Wholly absorbing lives to take my love	H3
And here I was instructed found a step	F2
For my poor feet to mount by Though submerged	C4
Alone too much my husband not the mate	Z
I dreamed of hearing echoes in my dreams	D4
Of London and of Paris sometimes voices	E4
Of lovers lost and vanished still I've found	F4
A peace sometimes a stay too in the innocence	G4
And helplessness of children	O
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But you see	W
In spite of all we do however high	H3
And fiercely mounts desire life imposes	E4
Repression sacrifice renunciation	O
And our poor souls fall muddied in the ditch	H4
Or take the discipline and live life out	Y
So Elenor Murray lived and did not fail	I4
And so it was the knowledge of her life	H3
Kept me in spite of failures at the task	J4
Of holding to my self	H3
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These two months passed	U2
I found I had not killed desire found	F4
Among a group a chance to try again	O
For happiness but knew it was not there	S
Then to my children I came back and said	Y3
Free once again through suffering So I prayed	A4
Come to me flame of spirit fire of worship	G2
Bright fire of song if I but be myself	H3
Work through my fate you shall be mine at last	U2
Then was it that I heard from Elenor Murray	W
Such letters such outpourings of herself	H3
Poor woman leaving love that could not be	W
More than it was how wise she was to fly	H3
And use that love for service as she did	K4
Extract its purest essence for the war	U
And ease death with it merging love and death	L4
Into that mystic union seen at last	U2
By Elenor Murray	W
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When I heard she came	M4
All broken from the war and died somehow	O
There by the river then she seemed to me	W
More near I seemed to feel her little zephyrs	Z2
Blowing about my face when I sat looking	D3
Over the sea in my rose bower seemed	N4
The exhalation of her soul that caught	O4
Its breath for words I see her in my dreams	D4
O my pure soul what have you been to me	W
What must you be hereafter	M
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But my friend	D
And I must call you friend whose strength in life	H3
Drives you to find economies of spirit	G3
And save the waste of spirit you must find	I
Whatever waste there was of Elenor Murray	W
Of love or faith or time or strength great gain	O
In spite of early chances father mother	M
Too loveless negligent or ignorant	P4
Her mother instinct never blessed with children	O
I sometimes think no life is without use	Q4
For even weeds that sow themselves frost reaped	R4
And matted on the ground enrich the soil	S4
Or feed some life Our eyes must see the end	D
Of what these growths are for before we say	P
Where waste is and where gain	O
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Coroner Merival woke to scan the Times	T4
And read the story of the suicide	G
Of Gregory Wenner circle big enough	H3
From Elenor Murray's death but unobserved	G
Of Merival until he heard the hint	G
Of Dr Trace who made the autopsy	W
That Gregory Wenner might have caused the death	L4
Of Eleanor Murray or at least was near	P3
When Elenor Murray died Here is the story	W
Worked out by Merival as he went about	G
Unearthing secrets asking here and there	S
What Gregory Wenner was to Elenor Murray	W
The coroner had a friend who was the friend	G
Of Mrs Wenner Acting on the hint	G
Of Dr Trace he found this friend and learned	G
What follows here of Gregory Wenner then	O
What Mrs Wenner learned in coming home	U4
To bury Gregory Wenner What he learned	G
The coroner told the jury Here's the life	H3
Of Gregory Wenner first	G