Madeline. A Domestic Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLJM NNOOPPQQOO RRSSTTUU VVVVWXWYZZA2A2B2VB2V C2VVC2 D2E2VVVVOOF2F2VVVVVV G2HVV H2I2E2E2VVJ2J2K2L2M2 N2O2P2VV FQ2My child my child thou leav'st me I shall hear | A |
The gentle voice no more that blest mine ear | A |
With its first utterance I shall miss the sound | B |
Of thy light step amidst the flowers around | B |
And thy soft breathing hymn at twilight's close | C |
And thy 'Good night' at parting for repose | D |
Under the vine leaves I shall sit alone | E |
And the low breeze will have a mournful tone | E |
Amidst their tendrils while I think of thee | F |
My child and thou along the moonlight sea | F |
With a soft sadness haply in thy glance | G |
Shalt watch thine own thy pleasant land of France | G |
Fading to air Yet blessings with thee go | H |
Love guard thee gentlest and the exile's wo | H |
From thy young heart be far And sorrow not | I |
For me sweet daughter in my lonely lot | I |
God shall be with me Now farewell farewell | J |
Thou that hast been what words may never tell | J |
Unto thy mother's bosom since the days | K |
When thou wert pillow'd there and wont to raise | K |
In sudden laughter thence thy loving eye | L |
That still sought mine these moments are gone by | L |
Thou too must go my flower Yet with thee dwell | J |
The peace of God One one more gaze farewell ' | M |
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This was a mother's parting with her child | N |
A young meek bride on whom fair fortune smil'd | N |
And wooed her with a voice of love away | O |
From childhood's home yet there with fond delay | O |
She linger'd on the threshold heard the note | P |
Of her cag'd bird thro' trellis'd rose leaves float | P |
And fell upon her mother's neck and wept | Q |
Whilst old remembrances that long had slept | Q |
Gush'd o'er her soul and many a vanish'd day | O |
As in one picture traced before her lay | O |
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But the farewell was said and on the deep | R |
When its breast heav'd in sunset's golden sleep | R |
With a calm'd heart young Madeline ere long | S |
Pour'd forth her own sweet solemn vesper song | S |
Breathing of home thro' stillness heard afar | T |
And duly rising with the first pale star | T |
That voice was on the waters till at last | U |
The sounding ocean solitudes were pass'd | U |
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And the bright land was reach'd the youthful world | V |
That glows along the West the sails were furl'd | V |
In its clear sunshine and the gentle bride | V |
Look'd on the home that promis'd hearts untried | V |
A bower of bliss to come Alas we trace | W |
The map of our own paths and long ere years | X |
With their dull steps the brilliant lines efface | W |
On sweeps the storm and blots them out with tears | Y |
That home was darken'd soon the summer breeze | Z |
Welcom'd with death the wanderers from the seas | Z |
Death unto one and anguish how forlorn | A2 |
To her that widow'd in her marriage morn | A2 |
Sat in her voiceless dwelling whence with him | B2 |
Her bosom's first belov'd her friend and guide | V |
Joy had gone forth and left the green earth dim | B2 |
As from the sun shut out on every side | V |
By the close veil of misery Oh but ill | C2 |
When with rich hopes o'erfraught the young high heart | V |
Bears its first blow it knows not yet the part | V |
Which life will teach to suffer and be still | C2 |
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And with submissive love to count the flowers | D2 |
Which yet are spared and thro' the future hour | E2 |
To send no busy dream She had not learn'd | V |
Of sorrow till that hour and therefore turn'd | V |
In weariness from life then came th' unrest | V |
The heart sick yearning of the exile's breast | V |
The haunting sounds of voices far away | O |
And household steps until at last she lay | O |
On her lone couch of sickness lost in dreams | F2 |
Of the gay vineyards and blue rushing streams | F2 |
In her own sunny land and murmuring oft | V |
Familiar names in accents wild yet soft | V |
To strangers round that bed who knew not aught | V |
Of the deep spells wherewith each word was fraught | V |
To strangers Oh could strangers raise the head | V |
Gently as hers was raised did strangers shed | V |
The kindly tears which bath'd that feverish brow | G2 |
And wasted cheek with half unconscious flow | H |
Something was there that thro' the lingering night | V |
Outwatches patiently the taper's light | V |
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Something that faints not thro' the day's distress | H2 |
That fears not toil that knows not weariness | I2 |
Love true and perfect love Whence came that power | E2 |
Uprearing thro' the storm the drooping flower | E2 |
Whence who can ask the wild delirium pass'd | V |
And from her eyes the spirit look'd at last | V |
Into her mother's face and wakening knew | J2 |
The brow's calm grace the hair's dear silvery hue | J2 |
The kind sweet smile of old and had she come | K2 |
Thus in life's evening from her distant home | L2 |
To save her child Ev'n so nor yet in vain | M2 |
In that young heart a light sprung up again | N2 |
And lovely still with so much love to give | O2 |
Seem'd this fair world tho' faded still to live | P2 |
Was not to pine forsaken On the breast | V |
That rock'd her childhood sinking in soft rest | V |
'Sweet mother gentlest mother can it be ' | - |
The lorn one cried 'and do I look on thee | F |
Take back thy wanderer from this fatal shore | Q2 |
Peace shall be ours beneath our vines once more ' | - |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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