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 LE2LF2The 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 grey | 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 |
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