The Crusader's Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDF GHGHIJIJ KLMLNONO PQROSTST UVUVOWOW XTXTBYBY RZRZA2OA2O B2C2B2D2CE2CF2Rest pilgrim rest thou'rt from the Syrian land | A |
Thou'rt from the wild and wondrous east I know | B |
By the long withered palm branch in thy hand | A |
And by the darkness of thy sunburnt brow | C |
Alas the bright the beautiful who part | D |
So full of hope for that far country's bourne | E |
Alas the weary and the chang'd in heart | D |
And dimm'd in aspect who like thee return | F |
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Thou'rt faint stay rest thee from thy toils at last | G |
Through the high chesnuts lightly plays the breeze | H |
The stars gleam out the Ave hour is pass'd | G |
The sailor's hymn hath died along the seas | H |
Thou 'rt faint and worn hear'st thou the fountain welling | I |
By the grey pillars of yon ruin'd shrine | J |
Seest thou the dewy grapes before thee swelling | I |
He that hath left me train'd that loaded vine | J |
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He was a child when thus the bower he wove | K |
Oh hath a day fled since his childhood's time | L |
That I might sit and hear the sound I love | M |
Beneath its shade the convent's vesper chime | L |
And sit thou there for he was gentle ever | N |
With his glad voice he would have welcomed thee | O |
And brought fresh fruits to cool thy parch'd lips' fever | N |
There in his place thou 'rt resting where is he | O |
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If I could hear that laughing voice again | P |
But once again how oft it wanders by | Q |
In the still hours like some remember'd strain | R |
Troubling the heart with its wild melody | O |
Thou hast seen much tired pilgrim hast thou seen | S |
In that far land the chosen land of yore | T |
A youth my Guido with the fiery mien | S |
And the dark eye of this Italian shore | T |
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The dark clear lightning eye on Heaven and earth | U |
It smiled as if man were not dust it smiled | V |
The very air seem'd kindling with his mirth | U |
And I my heart grew young before my child | V |
My blessed child I had but him yet he | O |
Fill'd all my home ev'n with o'erflowing joy | W |
Sweet laughter and wild song and footstep free | O |
Where is he now my pride my flower my boy | W |
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His sunny childhood melted from my sight | X |
Like a spring dew drop then his forehead wore | T |
A prouder look his eye a keener light | X |
I knew these woods might be his world no more | T |
He loved me but he left me thus they go | B |
Whom we have rear'd watch'd bless'd too much adored | Y |
He heard the trumpet of the red cross blow | B |
And bounded from me with his father's sword | Y |
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Thou weep'st I tremble thou hast seen the slain | R |
Pressing a bloody turf the young and fair | Z |
With their pale beauty strewing o'er the plain | R |
Where hosts have met speak answer was he there | Z |
Oh hath his smile departed Could the grave | A2 |
Shut o'er those bursts of bright and tameless glee | O |
No I shall yet behold his dark locks wave | A2 |
That look gives hope I knew it could not be | O |
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Still weep'st thou wanderer some fond mother's glance | B2 |
O'er thee too brooded in thine early years | C2 |
Think'st thou of her whose gentle eye perchance | B2 |
Bath'd all thy faded hair with parting tears | D2 |
Speak for thy tears disturb me what art thou | C |
Why dost thou hide thy face yet weeping on | E2 |
Look up oh is it that wan cheek and brow | C |
Is it alas yet joy my son my son | F2 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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