The Deserted Bride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCDEE CFCFGG EHEHCC EIEIJJ KLKLEE EMEMNN COCOEE JPJPJJ QRSRGG TUVWGG| Suggested by a scene in the play of the hunchback | A |
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| Inscribed to James Sheridan Knowles | B |
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| Love me No He never loved me | C |
| Else he'd sooner die than stain | D |
| One so fond as he has proved me | C |
| With the hollow world's disdain | D |
| False one go my doom is spoken | E |
| And the spell that bound me broken | E |
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| Wed him Never He has lost me | C |
| Tears Well let them flow His bride | F |
| No The struggle life may cost me | C |
| But he'll find that I have pride | F |
| Love is not an idle flower | G |
| Blooms and dies the self same hour | G |
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| Title land and broad dominion | E |
| With himself to me he gave | H |
| Stooped to earth his spirit's pinion | E |
| And became my willing slave | H |
| Knelt and prayed until he won me | C |
| Looks he coldly upon me | C |
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| Ingrate Never sure was maiden | E |
| Deeply wronged as I With grief | I |
| My true breast is overladen | E |
| Tears afford me no relief | I |
| Every nerve is strained and aching | J |
| And my very heart is breaking | J |
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| Love I him Thus scorned and slighted | K |
| Thrown like worthless weed apart | L |
| Hopes and feelings seared and blighted | K |
| Love him Yes with all my heart | L |
| With a passion superhuman | E |
| Constancy thy name is woman | E |
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| Love nor time nor mood can fashion | E |
| Love Idolatry's the word | M |
| To speak the broadest deepest passion | E |
| Ever woman's heart hath stirred | M |
| Vain to still the mind's desires | N |
| Which consume like hidden fires | N |
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| Wrecked and wretched lost and lonely | C |
| Crushed by grief's oppressive weight | O |
| With a prayer for Clifford only | C |
| I resign me to my fate | O |
| Chains that bind the soul I've proven | E |
| Strong as they were iron woven | E |
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| Deep the wo that fast is sending | J |
| From my cheek its healthful bloom | P |
| Sad my thoughts as willows bending | J |
| O'er the borders of the tomb | P |
| Without Clifford not a blessing | J |
| In the world is worth possessing | J |
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| Wealth a straw within the balance | Q |
| Opposed to love 'twill strike the beam | R |
| Kindred friendship beauty talents | S |
| All to love as nothing seem | R |
| Weigh love against all else together | G |
| And solid gold against a feather | G |
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| Hope is flown away disguises | T |
| Naught but death relief can give | U |
| For the love he little prizes | V |
| Can not cease and Julia live | W |
| Soon my thread of life will sever | G |
| Clifford fare thee well for ever | G |
George Pope Morris
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