Italian Girl's Hymn To The Virgin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOQ RNSTST UVUV WXWX DLDL| In the deep hour of dreams | A |
| Through the dark woods and past the moaning sea | B |
| And by the star light gleams | A |
| Mother of sorrows lo I come to thee | B |
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| Unto thy shrine I bear | C |
| Night blowing flowers like my own heart to lie | D |
| All all unfolded there | C |
| Beneath the meekness of thy pitying eye | D |
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| For thou that once didst move | E |
| In thy still beauty through an early home | F |
| Thou knowest the grief the love | G |
| The fear of woman's soul to thee I come | H |
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| Many and sad and deep | I |
| Were the thoughts folded in thy silent breast | J |
| Thou too couldst watch and weep | I |
| Hear gentlest mother hear a heart oppressed | J |
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| There is a wandering bark | K |
| Bearing one from me o'er the restless wave | L |
| Oh let thy soft eye mark | K |
| His course be with him holiest guide and save | L |
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| My soul is on that way | M |
| My thoughts are travellers o'er the waters dim | N |
| Through the long weary day | M |
| I walk o'ershadowed by vain dreams of him | N |
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| Aid him and me too aid | O |
| Oh 'tis not well this earthly love's excess | P |
| On thy weak child is laid | O |
| The burden of too deep a tenderness | Q |
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| Too much o'er | R |
| him | N |
| is poured | S |
| My being's hope scarce leaving Heaven a part | T |
| Too faithfully adored | S |
| Oh make not him the chastener of my heart | T |
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| I tremble with a sense | U |
| Of grief to be I hear a warming low | V |
| Sweet mother call me hence | U |
| This wild idolatry must end in woe | V |
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| The troubled joy of life | W |
| Love's lightning happiness my soul hath known | X |
| And worn with feverish strife | W |
| Would fold its wings take back take back thine own | X |
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| Hark how the wind swept by | D |
| The tempest's voice comes rolling o'er the wave | L |
| Hope of the sailor's eye | D |
| And maiden's heart blest mother guide and save | L |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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