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The October Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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POET	A
My haunting grief has vanished like a dream	B
Its floating fading memory seems one	C
With those frail mists born of the dawn's first beam	B
Dissolving as the dew melts in the sun	C
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MUSE	D
What ailed thee then O poet mine	E
What secret misery was thine	E
Which set a bar 'twixt thee and me	F
Alas I suffer from it still	G
What was this grief this unknown ill	G
Which I have wept so bitterly	F
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POET	A
'T was but a common grief well known of men	H
But look you when our heavy heart is sore	I
Fond wretches that we are we fancy then	H
That sorrow never has been felt before	I
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MUSE	D
There cannot be a common grief	J
Save that of common souls my friend	K
Speak out and give thy heart relief	J
Of this grim secret make an end	K
Confide in me and have no fear	L
The God of silence pale austere	L
Is younger brother unto death	M
Even as we mourn we're comforted	N
And oft a single word is said	O
Which from remorse delivereth	M
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POET	A
If I were bound this day to tell my woe	P
I know not by what name to call my pain	Q
Love folly pride experience neither know	P
If one in all the world might thereby gain	Q
Yet ne'ertheless I'll voice the tale to thee	M
Alone here by the hearth But do thou take	R
This lyre come nearer so my memory	M
Shall gently with the harmonies awake	R
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MUSE	D
But first or ere thy grief thou say	S
My poet art thou healed thereof	T
Bethink thee thou must speak to day	S
As free from hatred as from love	T
For man has given the holy name	U
Of consolation unto me	M
Make me no partner of thy shame	U
In passions that have ruined thee	M
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POET	A
Of my old wounds I am so sound and whole	V
Almost I doubt they were nor find their trace	W
And in the passes where I risked my soul	V
In mine own stead I see a stranger's face	W
Muse have no fear we both may yield awhile	X
To this first inspiration of regret	Y
Oh it is good to weep 't is good to smile	X
Remembering sorrows we might else forget	Y
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MUSE	D
As the watchful mother stoops	Z
O'er her infant's cradled rest	A2
So my trembling spirit droops	Z
O'er this long closed silent breast	A2
Speak I touch the lyre's sweet strings	Z
Feebly plaintively it sings	Z
With thy voice set free at last	B2
While athwart a radiant beam	B
Like a light enchanted dream	B
Float the shadows of the past	B2
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POET	A
My days of work sole days whereon I lived	C2
O thrice beloved solitude	D2
Now God be praised once more I have arrived	C2
In this old study bare and rude	D2
These oft deserted walls this shabby den	H
My faithful lamp my dusty chair	E2
My palace my small world I greet again	H
My Muse immortal young and fair	E2
Thank God we twain may sing here side by side	F2
I will reveal to thee my thought	G2
Thou shalt know all to thee I will confide	F2
The evil by a woman wrought	G2
A woman yes mayhap poor friends ye guess	Z
Or ever I have said the word	H2
To such a one my soul was bound no less	Z
Than is the vassal to his lord	I2
Detested yoke within me to destroy	J2
The vigor and the bloom of youth	M
Yet only through my love I caught in sooth	M
A fleeting glimpse of joy	J2
When by the brook beneath the evening star	K2
On silver sands we twain would stray	S
The white wraith of the aspen tree afar	K2
Pointed for us the dusky way	S
Once more within the moonlight do I see	Z
That fair form sink upon my breast	A2
No more of that Alas I never guessed	A2
Whither my fate was leading me	Z
The angry gods some victim craved I fear	L
At that ill omened time	L2
Since they have punished me as for a crime	L2
For trying to be happy here	M2
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MUSE	Z
A vision of remembered joy	J2
Reveals itself to thee once more	I
Why fearest thou to live it o'er	N2
Retracing it without annoy	J2
Wouldst thou confide the truth to me	Z
And yet those golden days disprove	O2
If fate has been unkind to thee	Z
Do thou no less my friend than she	Z
And smile upon thine early love	T
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POET	A
Rather I dare to smile upon my woe	P
Muse I have said it I would fain review	P2
My crosses visions frenzy calmly show	P
The hour place circumstance in order due	P2
'T was an autumnal evening I recall	Q2
Chill gloomy this one brings it back again	H
The murmuring wind's monotonous rise and fall	Q2
Lulled sombre care within my weary brain	Q
I waited at the casement for my love	T
And listening in the darkness black as death	M
Such melancholy did my spirit move	O2
That all at once I doubted of her faith	M
The street wherein I dwelt was lonely poor	R2
Lantern in hand at times a shade passed by	S2
When the gale whistled through the half oped door	I
One seemed to hear afar a human sigh	S2
I know not to what omen sooth to say	S
My superstitious spirit fell a prey	S
Vainly I summoned courage coward like	T2
I shuddered when the clock began to strike	T2
She did not come Alone with downcast head	O
I stared at street and walls like one possessed	A2
How may I tell the insensate passion bred	O
By that inconstant woman in my breast	A2
I loved but her in all the world One day	S
Apart from her seemed worse than death to me	Z
Yet I remember how I did essay	S
That cruel night to snap my chain go free	Z
I named her traitress serpent o'er and o'er	N2
Recalled the anguish suffered for her sake	R
Alas her fatal beauty rose once more	I
What grief what torture in my heart to wake	R
At last morn broke with waiting vain outworn	Q
I fell asleep against the casement there	E2
I oped my lids upon the day new born	Q
My dazzled glance swam in the radiant air	E2
Then on the outer staircase suddenly	Z
I heard soft steps ascend the narrow flight	U2
Save me Great God I see her it is she	Z
Whence com'st thou speak where hast thou been this night	U2
What dost thou seek who brings thee here thus late	V2
Where has this lovely form reclined till day	S
While I alone must watch and weep and wait	V2
Where and on whom hast thou been smiling say	S
Out insolent traitress canst thou come accurst	V2
And offer to my kiss thy lips' ripe charms	Z
What cravest thou By what unhallowed thirst	V2
Darest thou allure me to thy jaded arms	Z
Avaunt begone ghost of my mistress dead	V2
Back to thy grave avoid the morning's beam	B
Be my lost youth no more remembered	V2
And when I think of thee I'll know it was a dream	B
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MUSE	Z
Be calm I beg thee I implore	I
I shudder hearing of thy pain	Q
O dearest friend thy wound once more	I
Is opening to bleed again	Q
Is it so very deep alas	Z
How slowly do the traces pass	Z
Of this world's troubles Thou my son	Q
Forget her let thy memory shun	Q
Even to this woman's very name	U
My pitying lips refuse to frame	U
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POET	V2
Shame upon her who first	V2
Treason and falsehood taught	V2
With grief and wrath accurst	V2
Who set my brain distraught	V2
Shame woman baleful eyed	V2
Whose fatal love entombed	V2
In shadows of thy pride	V2
My April ere it bloomed	V2
It was thy voice thy smile	X
Thy poisoned glances bright	V2
Which taught me to revile	X
The semblance of delight	V2
Thy grace of girlish years	Z
Murdered my peace my sleep	W2
If I lose faith in tears	Z
'T is that I saw thee weep	W2
I yielded to thy power	N2
A child's simplicity	V2
As to the dawn the flower	N2
So oped my heart to thee	V2
Doubtless this helpless heart	V2
Was thine without defence	Z
Were 't not the better part	V2
To spare its innocence	Z
Shame thou who didst beget	V2
My earliest youngest woe	P
The tears are streaming yet	V2
Which first thou madest flow	P
Quenchless this source is found	V2
Which thou hast first unsealed	V2
It issues from a wound	V2
That never may be healed	V2
But in the bitter wave	X2
I shall be clean restored	V2
And from my soul shall lave	X2
Thy memory abhorred	V2
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MUSE	Z
Poet enough Though but one single day	V2
Lasted thy dream of her who faithless proved	V2
That day insult not whatsoe'er thou say	V2
Respect thy love if thou would be beloved	V2
If human weakness find the task too great	V2
Of pardoning the wrongs by others done	Q
At least the torture spare thyself of hate	V2
In place of pardon seek oblivion	Q
The dead lie peaceful in the earth asleep	W2
So our extinguished passions too should rest	V2
Dust are those relics also let us keep	W2
Our hands from violence to their ashes blest	V2
Why in this story of keen pain my friend	V2
Wilt thou refuse naught but a dream to see	V2
Does Nature causeless act to no wise end	V2
Think'st thou a heedless God afflicted thee	V2
Mayhap the blow thou weepest was to save	X2
Child it has oped thy heart to seek relief	J
Sorrow is lord to man and man a slave	X2
None knows himself till he has walked with grief	J
A cruel law but none the less supreme	B
Old as the world yea old as destiny	V2
Sorrow baptizes us a fatal scheme	B
All things at this sad price we still must buy	S2
The harvest needs the dew to make it ripe	Y2
And man to live to feel has need of tears	Z
Joy chooses a bruised plant to be her type	Y2
That drenched with rain still many a blossom bears	Z
Didst thou not say this folly long had slept	V2
Art thou not happy young a welcome guest	V2
And those light pleasures that give life its zest	V2
How wouldst thou value if thou hadst not wept	V2
When lying in the sunlight on the grass	Z
Freely thou drink'st with some old friend confess	Z
Wouldst thou so cordially uplift thy glass	Z
Hadst thou not weighed the worth of cheerfulness	Z
Would flowers be so dear unto thy heart	V2
The verse of Petrarch warblings of the bird	V2
Shakespeare and Nature Angelo and Art	V2
But that thine ancient sobs therein thou heard	V2
Couldst thou conceive the ineffable peace of heaven	Q
Night's silence murmurs of the wave that flows	Z
If sleeplessness and fever had not driven	Q
Thy thought to yearn for infinite repose	Z
By a fair woman's love art thou not blest	V2
When thou dost hold and clasp her hand in thine	Q
Does not the thought of woes that once possessed	V2
Make all the sweeter now her smile divine	Q
Wander ye not together thou and she	V2
Midst blooming woods on sands like silver bright	V2
Does not the white wraith of the aspen tree	V2
In that green palace mark the path at night	V2
And seest thou not within the moon's pale ray	V2
Her lovely form sink on thy breast again	Q
If thou shouldst meet with Fortune on thy way	V2
Wouldst thou not follow singing in her train	Q
What hast thou to regret Immortal Hope	Z2
Is shaped anew in thee by Sorrow's hand	V2
Why hate experience that enlarged thy scope	Z2
Why curse the pain that made thy soul expand	V2
Oh pity her so false so fair to see	V2
Who from thine eyes such bitter tears did press	Z
She was a woman God revealed to thee	V2
Through her the secret of all happiness	Z
Her task was hard she loved thee it may be	V2
Yet must she break thy heart so fate decreed	V2
She knew the world she taught it unto thee	V2
Another reaps the fruit of her misdeed	V2
Pity her dreamlike did her love disperse	Z
She saw thy wound nor could thy pain remove	O2
All was not falsehood in those tears of hers	Z
Pity her though it were for thou canst love	T
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POET	V2
True Hate is blasphemy	V2
With horror's thrill I start	V2
This sleeping snake to see	V2
Uncoil within my heart	V2
Oh Goddess hear my cries	Z
My vow to thee is given	Q
By my beloved's blue eyes	Z
And by the azure heaven	Q
By yonder spark of flame	U
Yon trembling pearl the star	K2
That beareth Venus' name	U
And glistens from afar	K2
By Nature's glorious scheme	B
The infinite grace of God	V2
The planet's tranquil beam	B
That cheers the traveler's road	V2
The grass the water course	Z
Woods fields with dew impearled	V2
The quenchless vital force	Z
The sap of all the world	V2
I banish from my heart	V2
This reckless passion's ghost	V2
Mysterious shade depart	V2
In the dark past be lost	V2
And thou whom once I met	V2
As friend while thou didst live	A3
The hour when I forget	V2
I likewise should forgive	B3
Let me forgive I break	R
The long uniting spell	C3
With a last tear oh take	R
Take thou a last farewell	C3
Now gold haired pensive Muse	Z
On to our pleasures Sing	D3
Some joyous carol choose	Z
As in the dear old Spring	D3
Mark how the dew drenched lawn	Q
Scents the auroral hour	N2
Waken my love with dawn	Q
And pluck her garden's flower	N2
Immortal nature see	V2
Casts slumber's veil away	V2
New born with her are we	V2
In morning's earliest ray	V2