Ulla, Or The Adjuration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD E FGHG IBIBJKJK L MNMN OJOJBPBP Q RGRG STSTUGUG V WQWQ XYNYZA2ZA2 E AB2AC2'Thou'rt gone thou'rt slumb'ring low | A |
With the sounding seas above thee | B |
It is but a restless wo | A |
But a haunting dream to love thee | B |
Thrice the glad swan has sung | C |
To greet the spring time hours | D |
Since thine oar at parting flung | C |
The white spray up in showers | D |
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There's a shadow of the grave on thy hearth and round thy home | E |
Come to me from the ocean's dead thou'rt surely of them come ' | - |
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'Twas Ulla's voice alone she stood | F |
In the Iceland summer night | G |
Far gazing o'er a glassy flood | H |
From a dark rock's beetling height | G |
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'I know thou hast thy bed | I |
Where the sea weed's coil hath bound thee | B |
The storm sweeps o'er thy head | I |
But the depths are hush'd around thee | B |
What wind shall point the way | J |
To the chambers where thou'rt lying | K |
Come to me thence and say | J |
If thou thought'st on me in dying | K |
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I will not shrink to see thee with a bloodless lip and cheek | L |
Come to me from the ocean's dead thou'rt surely of them speak ' | - |
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She listen'd 'twas the wind's low moan | M |
'Twas the ripple of the wave | N |
'Twas the wakening osprey's cry alone | M |
As it started from its cave | N |
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'I know each fearful spell | O |
Of the ancient Runic lay | J |
Whose mutter'd words compel | O |
The tempest to obey | J |
But I adjure not thee | B |
By magic sign or song | P |
My voice shall stir the sea | B |
By love the deep the strong | P |
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By the might of woman's tears by the passion of her sighs | Q |
Come to me from the ocean's dead by the vows we pledg'd arise ' | - |
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Again she gazed with an eager glance | R |
Wandering and wildly bright | G |
She saw but the sparkling waters dance | R |
To the arrowy northern light | G |
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'By the slow and struggling death | S |
Of hope that loath'd to part | T |
By the fierce and withering breath | S |
Of despair on youth's high heart | T |
By the weight of gloom which clings | U |
To the mantle of the night | G |
By the heavy dawn which brings | U |
Nought lovely to the sight | G |
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By all that from my weary soul thou hast wrung of grief and fear | V |
Come to me from the ocean's dead awake arise appear ' | - |
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Was it her yearning spirit's dream | W |
Or did a pale form rise | Q |
And o'er the hush'd wave glide and gleam | W |
With bright still mournful eyes | Q |
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'Have the depths heard they have | X |
My voice prevails thou'rt there | Y |
Dim from thy watery grave | N |
Oh thou that wert so fair | Y |
Yet take me to thy rest | Z |
There dwells no fear with love | A2 |
Let me slumber on thy breast | Z |
While the billow rolls above | A2 |
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Where the long lost things lie hid where the bright ones have their home | E |
We will sleep among the ocean's dead stay for me stay I come ' | - |
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There was a sullen plunge below | A |
A flashing on the main | B2 |
And the wave shut o'er that wild heart's wo | A |
Shut and grew still again | C2 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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