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 nightA
The stars are clear though fewB
And every window glistens brightA
With leaves of frozen dewB
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The sweet moon through your lattice gleamsC
And lights your room like dayD
And there you pass in happy dreamsC
The peaceful hours awayD
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While I with effort hardly quellingE
The anguish in my breastF
Wander about the silent dwellingE
And cannot think of restF
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The old clock in the gloomy hallG
Ticks on from hour to hourH
And every time its measured callG
Seems lingering slow and slowerH
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And oh how slow that keen eyed starI
Has tracked the chilly greyD
What watching yet how very farI
The morning lies awayD
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Without your chamber door I standJ
Love are you slumbering stillK
My cold heart underneath my handJ
Has almost ceased to thrillK
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Bleak bleak the east wind sobs and sighsL
And drowns the turret bellM
Whose sad note undistinguished diesL
Unheard like my farewellM
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To morrow Scorn will blight my nameN
And Hate will trample meO
Will load me with a coward's shameN
A traitor's perjuryO
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False friends will launch their covert sneersP
True friends will wish me deadQ
And I shall cause the bitterest tearsR
That you have ever shedQ
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The dark deeds of my outlawed raceS
Will then like virtues shineT
And men will pardon their disgraceS
Beside the guilt of mineT
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For who forgives the accursed crimeU
Of dastard treacheryO
Rebellion in its chosen timeU
May Freedom's champion beO
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Revenge may stain a righteous swordV
It may be just to slayD
But traitor traitor from that wordW
All true breasts shrink awayD
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Oh I would give my heart to deathX
To keep my honour fairY
Yet I'll not give my inward faithZ
My honour's name to spareY
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Not even to keep your priceless loveA2
Dare I Beloved deceiveB2
This treason should the future proveC2
Then only then believeB2
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I know the path I ought to goD2
I follow fearlesslyD
Inquiring not what deeper woeD2
Stern duty stores for meO
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So foes pursue and cold alliesL
Mistrust me every oneE2
Let me be false in others' eyesL
If faithful in my ownF2

Emily Jane Bronta<<



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