The Infanticide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFCGCG CHCHIJIJ CKCKCACA CLCLMNON PQPRCDCD CSCSTUTU VWVWCXCX AYAYZAZA A2B2A2B2CC2CG OD2OD2C2E2C2E2 A2F2A2F2 A2HA2H A2EA2E A2G2A2G2 E2A2E2A2OROQ A2H2A2H2E2I2E2I2Hark where the bells toll chiming dull and steady | A |
The clock's slow hand hath reached the appointed time | B |
Well be it so prepare my soul is ready | A |
Companions of the grave the rest for crime | B |
Now take O world my last farewell receiving | C |
My parting kisses in these tears they dwell | D |
Sweet are thy poisons while we taste believing | C |
Now we are quits heart poisoner fare thee well | D |
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Farewell ye suns that once to joy invited | E |
Changed for the mould beneath the funeral shade | F |
Farewell farewell thou rosy time delighted | E |
Luring to soft desire the careless maid | F |
Pale gossamers of gold farewell sweet dreaming | C |
Fancies the children that an Eden bore | G |
Blossoms that died while dawn itself was gleaming | C |
Opening in happy sunlight never more | G |
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Swanlike the robe which innocence bestowing | C |
Decked with the virgin favors rosy fair | H |
In the gay time when many a young rose glowing | C |
Blushed through the loose train of the amber hair | H |
Woe woe as white the robe that decks me now | I |
The shroud like robe hell's destined victim wears | J |
Still shall the fillet bind this burning brow | I |
That sable braid the Doomsman's hand prepares | J |
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Weep ye who never fell for whom unerring | C |
The soul's white lilies keep their virgin hue | K |
Ye who when thoughts so danger sweet are stirring | C |
Take the stern strength that Nature gives the few | K |
Woe for too human was this fond heart's feeling | C |
Feeling my sin's avenger doomed to be | A |
Woe for the false man's arm around me stealing | C |
Stole the lulled virtue charmed to sleep from me | A |
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Ah he perhaps shall round another sighing | C |
Forgot the serpents stinging at my breast | L |
Gayly when I in the dumb grave am lying | C |
Pour the warm wish or speed the wanton jest | L |
Or play perchance with his new maiden's tresses | M |
Answer the kiss her lip enamored brings | N |
When the dread block the head he cradled presses | O |
And high the blood his kiss once fevered springs | N |
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Thee Francis Francis league on league shall follow | P |
The death dirge of the Lucy once so dear | Q |
From yonder steeple dismal dull and hollow | P |
Shall knell the warning horror on thy ear | R |
On thy fresh leman's lips when love is dawning | C |
And the lisped music glides from that sweet well | D |
Lo in that breast a red wound shall be yawning | C |
And in the midst of rapture warn of hell | D |
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Betrayer what thy soul relentless closing | C |
To grief the woman shame no art can heal | S |
To that small life beneath my heart reposing | C |
Man man the wild beast for its young can feel | S |
Proud flew the sails receding from the land | T |
I watched them waning from the wistful eye | U |
Round the gay maids on Seine's voluptuous strand | T |
Breathes the false incense of his fatal sigh | U |
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And there the babe there on the mother's bosom | V |
Lulled in its sweet and golden rest it lay | W |
Fresh in life's morning as a rosy blossom | V |
It smiled poor harmless one my tears away | W |
Deathlike yet lovely every feature speaking | C |
In such dear calm and beauty to my sadness | X |
And cradled still the mother's heart in breaking | C |
The softening love and the despairing madness | X |
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Woman where is my father freezing through me | A |
Lisped the mute innocence with thunder sound | Y |
Woman where is thy husband called unto me | A |
In every look word whisper busying round | Y |
Alas for thee there is no father's kiss | Z |
He fondleth other children on his knee | A |
How thou wilt curse our momentary bliss | Z |
When bastard on thy name shall branded be | A |
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Thy mother oh a hell her heart concealeth | A2 |
Lone sitting lone in social nature's all | B2 |
Thirsting for that glad fount thy love revealeth | A2 |
While still thy look the glad fount turns to gall | B2 |
In every infant cry my soul is hearkening | C |
The haunting happiness forever o'er | C2 |
And all the bitterness of death is darkening | C |
The heavenly looks that smiled mine eyes before | G |
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Hell if my sight those looks a moment misses | O |
Hell when my sight upon those looks is turned | D2 |
The avenging furies madden in thy kisses | O |
That slept in his what time my lips they burned | D2 |
Out from their graves his oaths spoke back in thunder | C2 |
The perjury stalked like murder in the sun | E2 |
Forever God sense reason soul sunk under | C2 |
The deed was done | E2 |
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Francis O Francis league on league shall chase thee | A2 |
The shadows hurrying grimly on thy flight | F2 |
Still with their icy arms they shall embrace thee | A2 |
And mutter thunder in thy dream's delight | F2 |
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Down from the soft stars in their tranquil glory | A2 |
Shall look thy dead child with a ghastly stare | H |
That shape shall haunt thee in its cerements gory | A2 |
And scourge thee back from heaven its home is there | H |
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Lifeless how lifeless see oh see before me | A2 |
It lies cold stiff O God and with that blood | E |
I feel as swoops the dizzy darkness o'er me | A2 |
Mine own life mingled ebbing in the flood | E |
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Hark at the door they knock more loud within me | A2 |
More awful still its sound the dread heart gave | G2 |
Gladly I welcome the cold arms that win me | A2 |
Fire quench thy tortures in the icy grave | G2 |
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Francis a God that pardons dwells in heaven | E2 |
Francis the sinner yes she pardons thee | A2 |
So let my wrongs unto the earth be given | E2 |
Flame seize the wood it burns it kindles see | A2 |
There there his letters cast behold are ashes | O |
His vows the conquering fire consumes them here | R |
His kisses see see all are only ashes | O |
All all the all that once on earth were dear | Q |
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Trust not the roses which your youth enjoyeth | A2 |
Sisters to man's faith changeful as the moon | H2 |
Beauty to me brought guilt its bloom destroyeth | A2 |
Lo in the judgment court I curse the boon | H2 |
Tears in the headsman's gaze what tears 'tis spoken | E2 |
Quick bind mine eyes all soon shall be forgot | I2 |
Doomsman the lily hast thou never broken | E2 |
Pale Doomsman tremble not | I2 |
Friedrich Schiller
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