The Hall Of Justice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCE F FGFG B HIHI CDCE JKJKJK LMLM NONPNP QRQR STUTVT WXWX YZYZYZ A2B2A2B2 C2XC2X D2E2D2E2 F2E2G2E2 MH2MI2 A2E2A2E2A2E2 J2ZJ2Z CK2CK2CK2 L2M2L2M2 N2O2N2O2 P2DP2E F Q2R2S2R2 M2P2M2P2 A F T2GT2G M2Q2M2Q2 B U2N2U2N2 V2W2V2W2 OU2OU2 X2K2X2K2 Q2KS2K Y2Z2Y2Z2Y2Z2 KA3KA3 B3C3B3C3B3 D3M2E3M2 F3U2G3 E2S2E2S2 JH3JH3JH3 Q2U2Q2U2Q2U2 I3J3I3J3I3J3 N2CK3C L3M3L3M3 N3JN3JN3J NTNT O3P3O3P3 Q2Q3Q2Q3 Q2TQ2AQ2A TB3Part I | A |
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VAGRANT | B |
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Take take away thy barbarous hand | C |
And let me to thy Master speak | D |
Remit awhile the harsh command | C |
And hear me or my heart will break | E |
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MAGISTRATE | F |
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Fond wretch and what canst thou relate | F |
But deeds of sorrow shame and sin | G |
Thy crime is proved thou know'st thy fate | F |
But come thy tale begin begin | G |
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VAGRANT | B |
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My crime This sick'ning child to feed | H |
I seized the food your witness saw | I |
I knew your laws forbade the deed | H |
But yielded to a stronger law | I |
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Know'st thou to Nature's great command | C |
All human laws are frail and weak | D |
Nay frown not stay his eager hand | C |
And hear me or my heart will break | E |
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In this th' adopted babe I hold | J |
With anxious fondness to my breast | K |
My heart's sole comfort I behold | J |
More dear than life when life was blest | K |
I saw her pining fainting cold | J |
I begg'd but vain was my request | K |
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I saw the tempting food and seized | L |
My infant sufferer found relief | M |
And in the pilfer'd treasure pleased | L |
Smiled on my guilt and hush'd my grief | M |
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But I have griefs of other kind | N |
Troubles and sorrows more severe | O |
Give me to ease my tortured mind | N |
Lend to my woes a patient ear | P |
And let me if I may not find | N |
A friend to help find one to hear | P |
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Yet nameless let me plead my name | Q |
Would only wake the cry of scorn | R |
A child of sin conceived in shame | Q |
Brought forth in woe to misery born | R |
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My mother dead my father lost | S |
I wander'd with a vagrant crew | T |
A common care a common cost | U |
Their sorrows and their sins I knew | T |
With them by want on error forced | V |
Like them I base and guilty grew | T |
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Few are my years not so my crimes | W |
The age which these sad looks declare | X |
Is Sorrow's work it is not Time's | W |
And I am old in shame and care | X |
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Taught to believe the world a place | Y |
Where every stranger was a foe | Z |
Train'd in the arts that mark our race | Y |
To what new people could I go | Z |
Could I a better life embrace | Y |
Or live as virtue dictates No | Z |
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So through the land I wandering went | A2 |
And little found of grief or joy | B2 |
But lost my bosom's sweet content | A2 |
When first I loved the Gipsy Boy | B2 |
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A sturdy youth he was and tall | C2 |
His looks would all his soul declare | X |
His piercing eyes were deep and small | C2 |
And strongly curl'd his raven hair | X |
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Yes AARON had each manly charm | D2 |
All in the May of youthful pride | E2 |
He scarcely fear'd his father's arm | D2 |
And every other arm defied | E2 |
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Oft when they grew in anger warm | F2 |
Whom will not love and power divide | E2 |
I rose their wrathful souls to calm | G2 |
Not yet in sinful combat tried | E2 |
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His father was our party's chief | M |
And dark and dreadful was his look | H2 |
His presence fill'd my heart with grief | M |
Although to me he kindly spoke | I2 |
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With Aaron I delighted went | A2 |
His favour was my bliss and pride | E2 |
In growing hope our days we spent | A2 |
Love's growing charms in either spied | E2 |
It saw them all which Nature lent | A2 |
It lent them all which she denied | E2 |
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Could I the father's kindness prize | J2 |
Or grateful looks on him bestow | Z |
Whom I beheld in wrath arise | J2 |
When Aaron sunk beneath his blow | Z |
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He drove him down with wicked hand | C |
It was a dreadful sight to see | K2 |
Then vex'd him till he left the land | C |
And told his cruel love to me | K2 |
The clan were all at his command | C |
Whatever his command might be | K2 |
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The night was dark the lanes were deep | L2 |
And one by one they took their way | M2 |
He bade me lay me down and sleep | L2 |
I only wept and wish'd for day | M2 |
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Accursed be the love he bore | N2 |
Accursed was the force he used | O2 |
So let him of his God implore | N2 |
For mercy and be so refused | O2 |
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You frown again to show my wrong | P2 |
Can I in gentle language speak | D |
My woes are deep my words are strong | P2 |
And hear me or my heart will break | E |
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MAGISTRATE | F |
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I hear thy words I feel thy pain | Q2 |
Forbear awhile to speak thy woes | R2 |
Receive our aid and then again | S2 |
The story of thy life disclose | R2 |
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For though seduced and led astray | M2 |
Thou'st travell'd far and wander'd long | P2 |
Thy God hath seen thee all the way | M2 |
And all the turns that led thee wrong | P2 |
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Part II | A |
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MAGISTRATE | F |
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Come now again thy woes impart | T2 |
Tell all thy sorrows all thy sin | G |
We cannot heal the throbbing heart | T2 |
Till we discern the wounds within | G |
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Compunction weeps our guilt away | M2 |
The sinner's safety is his pain | Q2 |
Such pangs for our offences pay | M2 |
And these severer griefs are gain | Q2 |
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VAGRANT | B |
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The son came back he found us wed | U2 |
Then dreadful was the oath he swore | N2 |
His way through Blackburn Forest led | U2 |
His father we beheld no more | N2 |
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Of all our daring clan not one | V2 |
Would on the doubtful subject dwell | W2 |
For all esteem'd the injured son | V2 |
And fear'd the tale which he could tell | W2 |
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But I had mightier cause for fear | O |
For slow and mournful round my bed | U2 |
I saw a dreadful form appear | O |
It came when I and Aaron wed | U2 |
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Yes we were wed I know my crime | X2 |
We slept beneath the elmin tree | K2 |
But I was grieving all the time | X2 |
And Aaron frown'd my tears to see | K2 |
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For he not yet had felt the pain | Q2 |
That rankles in a wounded breast | K |
He waked to sin then slept again | S2 |
Forsook his God yet took his rest | K |
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But I was forced to feign delight | Y2 |
And joy in mirth and music sought | Z2 |
And mem'ry now recalls the night | Y2 |
With such surprise and horror fraught | Z2 |
That reason felt a moment's flight | Y2 |
And left a mind to madness wrought | Z2 |
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When waking on my heaving breast | K |
I felt a hand as cold as death | A3 |
A sudden fear my voice suppress'd | K |
A chilling terror stopp'd my breath | A3 |
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I seem'd no words can utter how | B3 |
For there my father husband stood | C3 |
And thus he said 'Will God allow | B3 |
The great Avenger just and Good | C3 |
A wife to break her marriage vow | B3 |
A son to shed his father's blood ' | - |
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I trembled at the dismal sounds | D3 |
But vainly strove a word to say | M2 |
So pointing to his bleeding wounds | E3 |
The threat'ning spectre stalk'd away | M2 |
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I brought a lovely daughter forth | F3 |
His father's child in Aaron's bed | U2 |
He took her from me in his wrath | G3 |
'Where is my child ' 'Thy child is dead ' | - |
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'Twas false we wander'd far and wide | E2 |
Through town and country field and fen | S2 |
Till Aaron fighting fell and died | E2 |
And I became a wife again | S2 |
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I then was young my husband sold | J |
My fancied charms for wicked price | H3 |
He gave me oft for sinful gold | J |
The slave but not the friend of vice | H3 |
Behold me Heaven my pains behold | J |
And let them for my sins suffice | H3 |
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The wretch who lent me thus for gain | Q2 |
Despised me when my youth was fled | U2 |
Then came disease and brought me pain | Q2 |
Come Death and bear me to the dead | U2 |
For though I grieve my grief is vain | Q2 |
And fruitless all the tears I shed | U2 |
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True I was not to virtue train'd | I3 |
Yet well I knew my deeds were ill | J3 |
By each offence my heart was pain'd | I3 |
I wept but I offended still | J3 |
My better thoughts my life disdain'd | I3 |
But yet the viler led my will | J3 |
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My husband died and now no more | N2 |
My smile was sought or ask'd my hand | C |
A widow'd vagrant vile and poor | K3 |
Beneath a vagrant's vile command | C |
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Ceaseless I roved the country round | L3 |
To win my bread by fraudful arts | M3 |
And long a poor subsistence found | L3 |
By spreading nets for simple hearts | M3 |
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Though poor and abject and despised | N3 |
Their fortunes to the crowd I told | J |
I gave the young the love they prized | N3 |
And promised wealth to bless the old | J |
Schemes for the doubtful I devised | N3 |
And charms for the forsaken sold | J |
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At length for arts like these confined | N |
In prison with a lawless crew | T |
I soon perceived a kindred mind | N |
And there my long lost daughter knew | T |
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His father's child whom Aaron gave | O3 |
To wander with a distant clan | P3 |
The miseries of the world to brave | O3 |
And be the slave of vice and man | P3 |
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She knew my name we met in pain | Q2 |
Our parting pangs can I express | Q3 |
She sail'd a convict o'er the main | Q2 |
And left an heir to her distress | Q3 |
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This is that heir to shame and pain | Q2 |
For whom I only could descry | T |
A world of trouble and disdain | Q2 |
Yet could I bear to see her die | A |
Or stretch her feeble hands in vain | Q2 |
And weeping beg of me supply | A |
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No though the fate thy mother knew | T |
Was shameful shameful thou | B3 |
George Crabbe
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