Honour's Martyr. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IDID JKJK LMLM NONO PQRQ STST UOUO VDWD XYZY A2B2C2B2 D2DD2O LE2LF2| The moon is full this winter night | A |
| The stars are clear though few | B |
| And every window glistens bright | A |
| With leaves of frozen dew | B |
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| The sweet moon through your lattice gleams | C |
| And lights your room like day | D |
| And there you pass in happy dreams | C |
| The peaceful hours away | D |
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| While I with effort hardly quelling | E |
| The anguish in my breast | F |
| Wander about the silent dwelling | E |
| And cannot think of rest | F |
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| The old clock in the gloomy hall | G |
| Ticks on from hour to hour | H |
| And every time its measured call | G |
| Seems lingering slow and slower | H |
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| And oh how slow that keen eyed star | I |
| Has tracked the chilly gray | D |
| What watching yet how very far | I |
| The morning lies away | D |
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| Without your chamber door I stand | J |
| Love are you slumbering still | K |
| My cold heart underneath my hand | J |
| Has almost ceased to thrill | K |
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| Bleak bleak the east wind sobs and sighs | L |
| And drowns the turret bell | M |
| Whose sad note undistinguished dies | L |
| Unheard like my farewell | M |
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| To morrow Scorn will blight my name | N |
| And Hate will trample me | O |
| Will load me with a coward's shame | N |
| A traitor's perjury | O |
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| False friends will launch their covert sneers | P |
| True friends will wish me dead | Q |
| And I shall cause the bitterest tears | R |
| That you have ever shed | Q |
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| The dark deeds of my outlawed race | S |
| Will then like virtues shine | T |
| And men will pardon their disgrace | S |
| Beside the guilt of mine | T |
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| For who forgives the accursed crime | U |
| Of dastard treachery | O |
| Rebellion in its chosen time | U |
| May Freedom's champion be | O |
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| Revenge may stain a righteous sword | V |
| It may be just to slay | D |
| But traitor traitor from THAT word | W |
| All true breasts shrink away | D |
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| Oh I would give my heart to death | X |
| To keep my honour fair | Y |
| Yet I'll not give my inward faith | Z |
| My honour's NAME to spare | Y |
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| Not even to keep your priceless love | A2 |
| Dare I Beloved deceive | B2 |
| This treason should the future prove | C2 |
| Then only then believe | B2 |
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| I know the path I ought to go | D2 |
| I follow fearlessly | D |
| Inquiring not what deeper woe | D2 |
| Stern duty stores for me | O |
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| So foes pursue and cold allies | L |
| Mistrust me every one | E2 |
| Let me be false in others' eyes | L |
| If faithful in my own | F2 |
Emily Bronte
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