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 lowA
With the sounding seas above theeB
It is but a restless woA
But a haunting dream to love theeB
Thrice the glad swan has sungC
To greet the spring time hoursD
Since thine oar at parting flungC
The white spray up in showersD
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There's a shadow of the grave on thy hearth and round thy homeE
Come to me from the ocean's dead thou'rt surely of them come '-
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'Twas Ulla's voice alone she stoodF
In the Iceland summer nightG
Far gazing o'er a glassy floodH
From a dark rock's beetling heightG
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'I know thou hast thy bedI
Where the sea weed's coil hath bound theeB
The storm sweeps o'er thy headI
But the depths are hush'd around theeB
What wind shall point the wayJ
To the chambers where thou'rt lyingK
Come to me thence and sayJ
If thou thought'st on me in dyingK
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I will not shrink to see thee with a bloodless lip and cheekL
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 moanM
'Twas the ripple of the waveN
'Twas the wakening osprey's cry aloneM
As it started from its caveN
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'I know each fearful spellO
Of the ancient Runic layJ
Whose mutter'd words compelO
The tempest to obeyJ
But I adjure not theeB
By magic sign or songP
My voice shall stir the seaB
By love the deep the strongP
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By the might of woman's tears by the passion of her sighsQ
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 glanceR
Wandering and wildly brightG
She saw but the sparkling waters danceR
To the arrowy northern lightG
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'By the slow and struggling deathS
Of hope that loath'd to partT
By the fierce and withering breathS
Of despair on youth's high heartT
By the weight of gloom which clingsU
To the mantle of the nightG
By the heavy dawn which bringsU
Nought lovely to the sightG
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By all that from my weary soul thou hast wrung of grief and fearV
Come to me from the ocean's dead awake arise appear '-
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Was it her yearning spirit's dreamW
Or did a pale form riseQ
And o'er the hush'd wave glide and gleamW
With bright still mournful eyesQ
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'Have the depths heard they haveX
My voice prevails thou'rt thereY
Dim from thy watery graveN
Oh thou that wert so fairY
Yet take me to thy restZ
There dwells no fear with loveA2
Let me slumber on thy breastZ
While the billow rolls aboveA2
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Where the long lost things lie hid where the bright ones have their homeE
We will sleep among the ocean's dead stay for me stay I come '-
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There was a sullen plunge belowA
A flashing on the mainB2
And the wave shut o'er that wild heart's woA
Shut and grew still againC2

Felicia Dorothea Hemans



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