To A Departed Spirit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DEDEC FGFGC FHFIJHC KLKLC AMAMC NFNFC| From the bright stars or from the viewless air | A |
| Or from some world unreached by human thought | B |
| Spirit sweet spirit if thy home be there | A |
| And if thy visions with the past be fraught | B |
| Answer me answer me | C |
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| Have we not communed here of life and death | D |
| Have we not said that love such love as ours | E |
| Was not to perish as a rose's breath | D |
| To melt away like song from festal bowers | E |
| Answer me answer me | C |
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| Thine eye's last light was mine the soul thtat shone | F |
| Intensely mournfully through gathering haze | G |
| Didst thou bear with thee to the shore unknown | F |
| Nought of what lived in that long earnest gaze | G |
| Hear hear and answer me | C |
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| Thy voice its low soft fervent farewell tone | F |
| Thrilled through the tempest of the parting strife | H |
| Like a faint breeze oh from that music flown | F |
| Send back | I |
| one | J |
| sound if love's be quenchless life | H |
| But once oh answer me | C |
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| In the still noontide in the sunset's hush | K |
| In the dead hour of night when thought grows deep | L |
| When the heart's phantoms from the darkness rush | K |
| Fearfully beautiful to strive with sleep | L |
| Spirit then answer me | C |
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| By the remembrance of our blended prayer | A |
| By all our tears whose mingling made them sweet | M |
| By our last hope the victor o'er despair | A |
| Speak if our souls in deathless yearnings meet | M |
| Answer me answer me | C |
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| The grave is silent and the far off sky | N |
| And the deep midnight silent all and lone | F |
| Oh if thy buried love make no reply | N |
| What voice has earth Hear pity speak mine own | F |
| Answer me answer me | C |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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