The Solitary-hearted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDCD EFEFFGGDGD HIHJJKKKKK DLDLLMMNMN| She was a queen of noble Nature's crowning | A |
| A smile of hers was like an act of grace | B |
| She had no winsome looks no pretty frowning | A |
| Like daily beauties of the vulgar race | B |
| But if she smiled a light was on her face | B |
| A clear cool kindliness a lunar beam | C |
| Of peaceful radiance silvering o'er the stream | C |
| Of human thought with unabiding glory | D |
| Not quite a waking truth not quite a dream | C |
| A visitation bright and transitory | D |
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| But she is changed hath felt the touch of sorrow | E |
| No love hath she no understanding friend | F |
| O grief when Heaven is forced of earth to borrow | E |
| What the poor niggard earth has not to lend | F |
| But when the stalk is snapt the rose must bend | F |
| The tallest flower that skyward rears its head | G |
| Grows from the common ground and there must shed | G |
| Its delicate petals Cruel fate too surely | D |
| That they should find so base a bridal bed | G |
| Who lived in virgin pride so sweet and purely | D |
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| She had a brother and a tender father | H |
| And she was loved but not as others are | I |
| From whom we ask return of love but rather | H |
| As one might love a dream a phantom fair | J |
| Of something exquisitely strange and rare | J |
| Which all were glad to look on men and maids | K |
| Yet no one claim'd as oft in dewy glades | K |
| The peering primrose like a sudden gladness | K |
| Gleams on the soul yet unregarded fades | K |
| The joy is ours but all its own the sadness | K |
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| 'Tis vain to say her worst of grief is only | D |
| The common lot which all the world have known | L |
| To her 'tis more because her heart is lonely | D |
| And yet she hath no strength to stand alone | L |
| Once she had playmates fancies of her own | L |
| And she did love them They are past away | M |
| As Fairies vanish at the break of day | M |
| And like a spectre of an age departed | N |
| Or unsphered Angel wofully astray | M |
| She glides along the solitary hearted | N |
Hartley Coleridge
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