Rosalind's Scroll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDE FGHGAAG IJKJAJ LMNMOOM PJQJAAJ| I left thee last a child at heart | A |
| A woman scarce in years | B |
| I come to thee a solemn corpse | C |
| Which neither feels nor fears | B |
| I have no breath to use in sighs | D |
| They laid the dead weights on mine eyes | D |
| To seal them safe from tears | E |
| - | |
| Look on me with thine own calm look | F |
| I meet it calm as thou | G |
| No look of thine can change this smile | H |
| Or break thy sinful vow | G |
| I tell thee that my poor scorn'd heart | A |
| Is of thine earth thine earth a part | A |
| It cannot vex thee now | G |
| - | |
| I have pray'd for thee with bursting sob | I |
| When passion's course was free | J |
| I have pray'd for thee with silent lips | K |
| In the anguish none could see | J |
| They whisper'd oft 'She sleepeth soft' | A |
| But I only pray'd for thee | J |
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| Go to I pray for thee no more | L |
| The corpse's tongue is still | M |
| Its folded fingers point to heaven | N |
| But point there stiff and chill | M |
| No farther wrong no farther woe | O |
| Hath licence from the sin below | O |
| Its tranquil heart to thrill | M |
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| I charge thee by the living's prayer | P |
| And the dead's silentness | J |
| To wring from out thy soul a cry | Q |
| Which God shall hear and bless | J |
| Lest Heaven's own palm droop in my hand | A |
| And pale among the saints I stand | A |
| A saint companionless | J |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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