Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBEB AFAF AGAG H| Often rebuked yet always back returning | A |
| To those first feelings that were born with me | B |
| And leaving busy chase of wealth and learning | A |
| For idle dreams of things which cannot be | B |
| To day I will seek not the shadowy region | C |
| Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear | D |
| And visions rising legion after legion | C |
| Bring the unreal world too strangely near | D |
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| I'll walk but not in old heroic traces | E |
| And not in paths of high morality | B |
| And not among the half distinguished faces | E |
| The clouded forms of long past history | B |
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| I'll walk where my own nature would be leading | A |
| It vexes me to choose another guide | F |
| Where the gray flocks in ferny glens are feeding | A |
| Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side | F |
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| What have those lonely mountains worth revealing | A |
| More glory and more grief than I can tell | G |
| The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling | A |
| Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell | G |
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| Harold Bloom calls this Emily Bront 's finest poem however C W Hatfield who edited her poems speculates that Charlotte wrote or revised this poem It first appeared in the edition of Emily's novel and poems no manuscript version of this poem is known | H |
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