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Edwin And Eltrada, A Legendary Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Where the pure Derwent's waters glide	A
Along their mossy bed	B
Close by the river's verdant side	A
A castle rear'd its head	B
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The antient pile by time is raz'd	C
Where gothic trophies frown'd	D
Where once the gilded armour blaz'd	C
And banners wav'd around	D
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There liv'd a chief well known to fame	E
A bold adven'trous knight	F
Renown'd for victory his name	E
In glory's annals bright	F
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Yet milder virtues he possest	F
And gentler passions felt	F
For in his calm and yielding breast	F
The soft affections dwelt	F
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No rugged toils the heart could steel	G
By nature form'd to prove	H
Whate'er the tender mind can feel	G
In friendship or in love	I
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He lost the partner of his breast	F
Who sooth'd each rising care	J
And ever charm'd the pains to rest	F
She ever lov'd to share	J
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From solitude he hop'd relief	K
And this lone mansion sought	F
To cherish there his faithful grief	K
To nurse the tender thought	F
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There to his bosom fondly dear	L
A blooming daughter smil'd	F
And oft' the mourner's falling tear	J
Bedew'd his EMMA'S child	F
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As drest in charms the lonely flower	M
Smiles in the distant vale	N
With beauty gilds the morning hour	M
And scents the evening gale	N
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So liv'd in solitude unseen	O
This lovely peerless maid	F
So grac'd the wild sequester'd scene	O
And blossom'd in the shade	F
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Yet love could pierce the lone recess	P
For there he likes to dwell	Q
To leave the noisy crowd and bless	P
With happiness the cell	Q
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To wing his sure resistless dart	F
Where all its power is known	R
And rule the undivided heart	F
Despotic and alone	R
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Young EDWIN charm'd her gentle breast	F
Though scanty all his store	S
No hoarded treasure he possest	F
Yet he could boast of more	S
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For he could boast the lib'ral heart	F
And honour sense and truth	T
Unwarp'd by vanity or art	F
Adorn'd the gen'rous youth	T
	-
The maxims of a servile age	U
The mean the selfish care	J
The sordid views that now engage	U
The mercenary fair	J
	-
Whom riches can unite or part	F
To them were all unknown	R
For then each sympathetic breast	F
Was join'd by love alone	R
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They little knew that wealth had power	M
To make the constant rove	V
They little knew the weighty dower	W
Could add one bliss to love	I
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ELTRADA o'er the distant mead	F
Would haste at closing day	F
And to the bleating mother lead	F
The lamb that chanc'd to stray	F
	-
For the bruis'd insect on the waste	F
A sigh would heave her breast	F
And oft her careful hand replac'd	F
The linnet's fallen nest	F
	-
To her sensations calm as these	X
Could sweet delight impart	F
Those simple pleasures most can please	X
The uncorrupted heart	F
	-
And oft with eager step she flies	Y
To cheer the roofless cot	F
Where the lone widow breathes her sighs	Y
And wails her desp'rate lot	F
	-
Their weeping mother's trembling knees	X
Her lisping infants clasp	Z
Their meek imploring look she sees	X
She feels their tender grasp	Z
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On her pale cheek where hung the tear	J
Of agonizing woe	A2
ELTRADA bids a smile appear	L
A tear of rapture flow	A2
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Thus on soft wing the moments flew	B2
Tho' love would court their stay	F
While some new virtue rose to view	B2
And mark'd each fleeting day	F
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The youthful poet's soothing dream	C2
Of golden ages past	F
The muse's fond ideal theme	C2
Seem'd realiz'd at last	F
	-
But here how weak to hope that bliss	D2
Unchanging will endure	E2
Ah in a world so vain as this	D2
What heart can rest secure	E2
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For now arose the fatal day	F
For civil discord fam'd	F
When YORK from LANCASTER'S proud sway	F
The regal sceptre claim'd	F
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Each moment now the horrors brought	F
Of desolating rage	U
The fam'd achievements now were wrought	F
That swell th' historic page	U
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The good old ALBERT pants again	F2
To dare the hostile field	F
The cause of HENRY to maintain	G2
For him the lance to wield	F
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But O a thousand gen'rous ties	Y
That bind the hero's soul	H2
A thousand sacred claims arise	Y
And EDWIN'S breast controul	H2
	-
Though passion pleads in HENRY'S cause	I2
And EDWIN'S heart would sway	F
Yet honour's stern imperious laws	J2
The brave will still obey	F
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Oppress'd with many an anxious care	J
Full oft ELTRADA sigh'd	F
Complaining that relentless war	S
Should those she lov'd divide	F
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At length the parting morn arose	K2
For her in sadness drest	F
While boding thoughts of future woes	K2
With terror heav'd her breast	F
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A thousand pangs her father feels	L2
A thousand tender fears	M2
While clinging at his feet she kneels	M2
And bathes them with her tears	M2
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One pitying tear bedew'd his cheek	N2
From his lov'd child he flew	H2
O'erwhelmed the father could not speak	N2
He could not say adieu	H2
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Arm'd for the field her lover came	E
He saw her pallid look	O2
And trembling seize her drooping frame	E
While falt'ring thus he spoke	P2
	-
This cruel tenderness but wounds	M2
The heart it means to bless	M2
Those falling tears those mournful sounds	M2
Increase the vain distress	M2
	-
If fate she answer'd has decreed	F
That on the hostile plain	G2
My EDWIN'S faithful heart must bleed	F
And swell the heep of slain	G2
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Trust me I never will complain	G2
I'll shed no fruitless tear	J
Not one weak drop my cheek shall stain	G2
Or tell what passes here	Q2
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O let thy fate of others claim	E
A tear a mournful sigh	R2
I'll only murmur thy dear name	E
I'll call on thee and die	R2
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But ah how vain for words to tell	H2
The pang their bosoms prov'd	F
They only will conceive it well	H2
They only who have lov'd	F
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The timid muse forbears to say	M2
What laurels EDWIN gain'd	F
How ALBERT long renown'd that day	M2
His ancient fame maintain'd	F
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The bard who feels congenial fire	M
May sing of martial strife	S2
And with heroic sounds inspire	T2
The gen'rous scorn of life	S2
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But ill the theme would suit her reed	F
Who wand'ring through the grove	V
Forgets the conqu'ring hero's meed	F
And gives a tear to love	I
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Though long the closing day was fled	F
The fight they still maintain	G2
While night a deeper horror shed	F
Along the darken'd plain	G2
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To ALBERT'S breast an arrow flew	H2
He felt a mortal wound	F
The drops that warm'd his heart bedew	F
The cold and flinty ground	F
	-
The foe who aim'd the fatal dart	F
Now heard his dying sighs	M2
Compassion touch'd his yielding heart	F
To ALBERT'S aid he flies	M2
	-
While round the chief his arms he cast	F
While oft he deeply sigh'd	F
And seem'd as if he mourn'd the past	F
Old ALBERT faintly cried	F
	-
Though nature heaves these parting groans	M2
Without complaint I die	F
Yet one dear care my heart still owns	M2
Still feels one tender tie	F
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For YORK a warrior known to fame	E
Uplifts the hostile spear	L
EDWIN the blooming hero's name	E
To ALBERT'S bosom dear	L
	-
O tell him my expiring sigh	F
Say my last words implor'd	F
To my despairing child to fly	F
To her he once ador'd	F
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He spoke but O what mournful strain	G2
Whose force the soul can melt	F
What moving numbers shall explain	G2
The pang that EDWIN felt	F
	-
The pang that EDWIN now reveal'd	F
For he the warrior prest	F
Whom the dark shades of night conceal'd	F
Close to his throbbing breast	F
	-
Fly fly he cried my touch profane	G2
O how the rest impart	F
Rever'd old man could EDWIN stain	G2
With ALBERT'S blood the dart	F
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His languid eyes lie weakly rais'd	F
Which seem'd for ever clos'd	F
On the pale youth with pity gaz'd	F
And then in death repos'd	F
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I'll go the hapless EDWIN said	F
And breathe a last adieu	F
And with the drops despair will shed	F
My mournful love bedew	F
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I'll go to her for ever dear	L
To catch her trembling sigh	F
To wipe from her pale cheek the tear	J
And at her feet to die	F
	-
And as to her for ever dear	L
The frantic mourner flew	F
To wipe from her pale cheek the tear	J
And breathe a last adieu	F
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Appall'd his troubled fancy sees	M2
That tear of anguish flow	H2
And hears in every passing breeze	M2
The plaintive sound of woe	H2
	-
Meanwhile the anxious maid whose tears	M2
In vain would heav'n implore	S
Of ALBERT'S fate despairing hears	M2
But yet had heard no more	S
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What woes she cried this breast must prove	H
Its dearest ties are broke	P2
O say what ruthless arm my love	I