Pauline Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE EFG HIHIJJ CKCKLL MFMFNN OPOPEE QPQFGG HRHRSS HTHTPP UVUVEE HWHWXX YEYZZ AA2AA2B2B2 MXMXC2C2 HD2HD2SS D2ED2EQQ E2F2E2G2GGTo die for what we love Oh there is power | A |
In the true heart and pride and joy for this | B |
It is to live without the vanish'd light | C |
That strength is needed | D |
Anon | E |
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Cos 'rapassa al trapassar d'un Giorno | E |
Della vita mortal il fiore e'l verde | F |
Tasso | G |
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ALONG the star lit Seine went music swelling | H |
Till the air thrill'd with its exulting mirth | I |
Proudly it floated even as if no dwelling | H |
For cares or stricken hearts were found on earth | I |
And a glad sound the measure lightly beat | J |
A happy chime of many dancing feet | J |
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For in a palace of the land that night | C |
Lamps and fresh roses and green leaves were hung | K |
And from the painted walls a stream of light | C |
On flying forms beneath soft splendour flung | K |
But loveliest far amidst the revel's pride | L |
Was one the lady from the Danube side | L |
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Pauline the meekly bright tho' now no more | M |
Her clear eye flash'd with youth's all tameless glee | F |
Yet something holier than its dayspring wore | M |
There in soft rest lay beautiful to see | F |
A charm with graver tenderer sweetness fraught | N |
The blending of deep love and matron thought | N |
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Thro' the gay throng she moved serenely fair | O |
And such calm joy as fills a moonlight sky | P |
Sate on her brow beneath its graceful hair | O |
As her young daughter in the dance went by | P |
With the fleet step of one that yet hath known | E |
Smiles and kind voices in this world alone | E |
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Lurk'd there no secret boding in her breast | Q |
Did no faint whisper warn of evil nigh | P |
Such oft awake when most the heart seems blest | Q |
Midst the light laughter of festivity | F |
Whence come those tones Alas enough we know | G |
To mingle fear with all triumphal show | G |
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Who spoke of evil when young feet were flying | H |
In fairy rings around the echoing hall | R |
Soft airs thro' braided locks in perfume sighing | H |
Glad pulses beating unto music's call | R |
Silence the minstrels pause and hark a sound | S |
A strange quick rustling which their notes had drown'd | S |
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And lo a light upon the dancers breaking | H |
Not such their clear and silvery lamps had shed | T |
From the gay dream of revelry awaking | H |
One moment holds them still in breathless dread | T |
The wild fierce lustre grows then bursts a cry | P |
Fire thro' the hall and round it gathering fly | P |
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And forth they rush as chased by sword and spear | U |
To the green coverts of the garden bowers | V |
A gorgeous masque of pageantry and fear | U |
Startling the birds and trampling down the flowers | V |
While from the dome behind red sparkles driven | E |
Pierce the dark stillness of the midnight heaven | E |
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And where is she Pauline the hurrying throng | H |
Have swept her onward as a stormy blast | W |
Might sweep some faint o'er wearied bird along | H |
Till now the threshold of that death is past | W |
And free she stands beneath the starry skies | X |
Calling her child but no sweet voice replies | X |
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'Bertha where art thou Speak oh speak my own ' | - |
Alas unconscious of her pangs the while | Y |
The gentle girl in fear's cold grasp alone | E |
Powerless hath sunk within the blazing pile | Y |
A young bright form deck'd gloriously for death | Z |
With flowers all shrinking from the flame's fierce breath | Z |
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But oh thy strength deep love there is no power | A |
To stay the mother from that rolling grave | A2 |
Tho' fast on high the fiery volumes tower | A |
And forth like banners from each lattice wave | A2 |
Back back she rushes thro' a host combined | B2 |
Mighty is anguish with affection twined | B2 |
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And what bold step may follow midst the roar | M |
Of the red billows o'er their prey that rise | X |
None Courage there stood still and never more | M |
Did those fair forms emerge on human eyes | X |
Was one brief meeting theirs one wild farewell | C2 |
And died they heart to heart Oh who can tell | C2 |
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Freshly and cloudlessly the morning broke | H |
On that sad palace midst its pleasure shades | D2 |
Its painted roofs had sunk yet black with smoke | H |
And lonely stood its marble colonnades | D2 |
But yester eve their shafts with wreaths were bound | S |
Now lay the scene one shrivell'd scroll around | S |
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And bore the ruins no recording trace | D2 |
Of all that woman's heart had dared and done | E |
Yes there were gems to mark its mortal place | D2 |
That forth from dust and ashes dimly shone | E |
Those had the mother on her gentle breast | Q |
Worn round her child's fair image there at rest | Q |
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And they were all the tender and the true | E2 |
Left this alone her sacrifice to prove | F2 |
Hallowing the spot where mirth once lightly flew | E2 |
To deep lone chasten'd thoughts of grief and love | G2 |
Oh we have need of patient faith below | G |
To clear away the mysteries of such wo | G |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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