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

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Mark it Cesario it is old and plain	A
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun	B
And the free maids that weave their thread with bones	C
Do use to chant it It is silly sooth	D
And dallies with the innocence of love	E
Like the old age	F
SHAKSPEARE'S TWELFTH NIGHT	G
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EDWIN AND ELTRUDA A LEGENDARY TALE	H
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Where the pure Derwent's waters glide	I
Along their mossy bed	J
Close by the river's verdant side	I
A castle rear'd its head	J
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The ancient pile by time is raz'd	K
Where Gothic trophies frown'd	L
Where once the gilded armour blaz'd	K
And banners wav'd around	L
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There liv'd a chief well known to fame	M
A bold advent'rous knight	G
Renown'd for victory his name	M
In glory's annals bright	G
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What time in martial pomp he led	J
His gallant chosen train	A
The foe who oft had conquer'd fled	J
Indignant fled the plain	A
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Yet milder virtues he possest	J
And gentler passions felt	J
For in his calm and yielding breast	J
The soft affections dwelt	J
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No rugged toils the heart could steel	N
By nature form'd to prove	O
Whate'er the tender mind can feel	N
In friendship or in love	E
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He lost the partner of his breast	J
Who sooth'd each rising care	P
And ever charm'd the pains to rest	J
She ever lov'd to share	P
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From solitude he hop'd relief	Q
And this lone mansion sought	J
To cherish there his faithful grief	Q
To nurse the tender thought	J
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There to his bosom fondly dear	R
An infant daughter smil'd	J
And oft the mourner's falling tear	P
Bedew'd his Emma's child	J
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The tear as o'er the babe he hung	S
Would tremble in his eye	T
While blessings falt'ring on his tongue	S
Were breath'd but in a sigh	T
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Tho' time could never heal the wound	J
It sooth'd the hopeless pain	A
And in his child he thought he found	J
His Emma liv'd again	U
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Soft as the dews of morn arise	V
And on the pale flower gleam	W
So soft Eltruda's melting eyes	V
With love and pity beam	W
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As drest in charms the lonely flower	X
Smiles in the desert vale	H
With beauty gilds the morning hour	X
And scents the evening gale	H
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So liv'd in solitude unseen	Y
This lovely peerless maid	J
So grac'd the wild sequester'd scene	Y
And blossom'd in the shade	J
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Yet love could pierce the lone recess	Z
For there he likes to dwell	A2
To leave the noisy crowd and bless	Z
With happiness the cell	A2
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To wing his sure resistless dart	J
Where all its force is known	B2
And rule the undivided heart	J
Despotic and alone	B2
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Young Edwin charm'd her gentle breast	J
Tho' scanty all his store	C2
No hoarded treasures he possest	J
Yet he could boast of more	C2
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For he could boast the lib'ral heart	J
And honour sense and truth	D
Unwarp'd by vanity or art	J
Adorn'd the gen'rous youth	D
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The maxims of a servile age	F
The mean the selfish care	P
The sordid views that now engage	F
The mercenary pair	P
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Whom riches can unite or part	J
To them were still unknown	B2
For then the sympathetic heart	J
Was join'd by love alone	B2
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They little knew that wealth had power	X
To make the constant rove	D2
They little knew the weighty dower	E2
Could add one bliss to love	E
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Her virtues every charm improv'd	J
Or made those charms more dear	R
For surely virtue to be lov'd	J
Has only to appear	R
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Domestic bliss unvex'd by strife	F2
Beguil'd the circling hours	G2
She who on every path of life	F2
Can shed perennial flowers	G2
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Eltruda o'er the distant mead	J
Would haste at closing day	J
And to the bleating mother lead	J
The lamb that chanc'd to stray	J
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For the bruis'd insect on the waste	J
A sigh would heave her breast	J
And oft her careful hand replac'd	J
The linnet's falling nest	J
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To her sensations calm as these	H2
Could sweet delight impart	J
These simple pleasures most can please	H2
The uncorrupted heart	J
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Full oft with eager step she flies	V
To cheer the roofless cot	J
Where the lone widow breathes her sighs	V
And wails her desp'rate lot	J
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Their weeping mother's trembling knees	H2
Her lisping infants clasp	I2
Their meek imploring look she sees	H2
She feels their tender grasp	I2
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Wild throbs her aching bosom swell	A2
They mark the bursting sigh	T
Nature has form'd the soul to feel	N
They weep unknowing why	T
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Her hands the lib'ral boon impart	J
And much her tear avails	H2
To raise the mourner's drooping heart	J
Where feeble utterance fails	H2
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On the pale cheek where hung the tear	P
Of agonizing woe	J2
She bids the cheerful bloom appear	R
The tear of rapture flow	J2
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Thus on soft wing the moments flew	K2
Tho' love implor'd their stay	J
While some new virtue rose to view	K2
And mark'd each fleeting day	J
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The youthful poet's soothing dream	W
Of golden ages past	J
The muse's fond ideal theme	W
Was realiz'd at last	J
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But vainly here we hope that bliss	H2
Unchanging will endure	L2
Ah in a world so vain as this	H2
What heart can rest secure	L2
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For now arose the fatal day	J
For civil discord fam'd	J
When York from Lancaster's proud sway	J
The regal sceptre claim'd	J
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Each moment now the horrors brought	J
Of desolating rage	F
The fam'd atchievements now were wrought	J
That swell th' historic page	F
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The good old Albert pants again	U
To dare the hostile field	J
The cause of Henry to maintain	A
For him the launce to wield	J
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But oh a thousand gen'rous ties	H2
That bind the hero's soul	M2
A thousand tender claims arise	H2
And Edwin's breast controul	M2
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Tho' passion pleads in Henry's cause	H2
And Edwin's heart would sway	J
Yet honour's stern imperious laws	H2
The brave will still obey	J
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Oppress'd with many an anxious care	P
Full oft Eltruda sigh'd	J
Complaining that relentless war	C2
Should those she lov'd divide	J
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At length the parting morn arose	H2
In gloomy vapours drest	J
The pensive maiden's sorrow flows	H2
And terror heaves her breast	J
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A thousand pangs the father feels	H2
A thousand rising fears	H2
While clinging at his feet she kneels	H2
And bathes them with her tears	H2
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A pitying tear bedew'd his cheek	N2
From his lov'd child he flew	M2
O'erwhelm'd the father could not speak	N2
He could not say adieu	M2
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Arm'd for the field her lover	X
He saw her pallid look	O2
And trembling seize her drooping frame	M
While fault'ring thus he spoke	P2
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This cruel tenderness but wounds	H2
The heart it means to bless	H2
Those falling tears those mournful sounds	H2
Increase the vain distress	H2
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If fate she answer'd has decreed	J
That on the hostile plain	A
My Edwin's faithful heart must bleed	J
And swell the heap of slain	A
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Trust me my love I'll not complain	A
I'll shed no fruitless tear	P
Not one weak drop my cheek shall stain	A
Or tell what passes here	Q2
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Oh let thy fate of others claim	M
A tear a mournful sigh	T
I'll only murmur thy dear name	M
Call on my love and die	T
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But ah how vain for words to tell	M2
The pang their bosoms prov'd	J
They only will conceive it well	M2
They only who have lov'd	J
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The timid muse forbears to say	H2
What laurels Edwin gain'd	J
How Albert long renown'd that day	H2
His ancient fame maintain'd	J
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The bard who feels congenial fire	X
May sing of martial strife	F2
And with heroic sounds inspire	R2
The gen'rous scorn of life	F2
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But ill the theme would suit her reed	J
Who wand'ring thro' the grove	D2
Forgets the conq'ring hero's meed	J
And gives a tear to love	E
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Tho' long the closing day was fled	J
The fight they still maintain	A
While night a deeper horror shed	J
Along the darken'd plain	A
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To Albert's breast an arrow flew	M2
He felt a mortal wound	J
The drops that warm'd his heart bedew	J
The cold and flinty ground	J
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The foe who aim'd the fatal dart	J
Now heard his dying sighs	H2
Compassion touch'd his yielding heart	J
To Albert's aid he flies	H2
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While round the chief his arms he cast	J
While oft he deeply sigh'd	J
And seem'd as if he mourn'd the past	J
Old Albert faintly cried	J
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Tho' nature heaves these parting groans	H2
Without complaint I die	J
Yet one dear care my heart still owns	H2
Still feels one tender tie	J
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For York a warriour known to fame	M
Uplifts the hostile spear	R
Edwin the blooming hero's name	M
To Albert's bosom dear	R
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Oh tell him my expiring sigh	J
Say my last words implor'd	J
To my despairing child to fly	J
To her he once ador'd	J
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He spoke but oh what mournful strain	A
Whose force the soul can melt	J
What moving numbers shall explain	A
The pang that Edwin felt	J
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The pang that Edwin now reveal'd	J
For he the warriour prest	J
Whom the dark shades of night conceal'd	J
Close to his throbbing breast	J
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Fly fly he cried my touch profane	A
Oh how the rest impart	J
Rever'd old man could Edwin stain	A
With Albert's blood the dart	J
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His languid eyes he meekly rais'd	J
Which seem'd for ever clos'd	J
On the pale youth with pity gaz'd	J
And then in death repos'd	J
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I'll go the hapless Edwin said	J
And breathe a last adieu	J
And with the drops despair will shed	J
My mournful love bedew	J
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I'll go to her for ever dear	R
To catch her melting sigh	J
To wipe from her pale cheek the tear	P
And at her feet to die	J
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And as to her for ever dear	R
The frantic mourner flew	J
To wipe from her pale cheek the tear	P
And breathe a last adieu	J
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Appall'd his troubled fancy sees	H2
Eltruda's anguish flow	M2
And hears in every passing breeze	H2
The plaintive sound of woe	M2
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Meanwhile the anxious maid whose tears	H2
In vain would heav'n implore	C2
Of Albert's fate despairing hears	H2
But yet had heard no more	C2
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She saw her much lov'd Edwin near	R
She saw and deeply sigh'd	J
Her cheek was bath'd in many a tear	P
At length she faintly cried	J
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Unceasing grief this heart must prove	O
Its dearest ties are broke	P2
Oh say what ruthless arm my love	E
Could aim the fatal stroke	P2
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Could not thy hand my Edwin thine	S2
Have warded off the blow	M2
For oh he was not only mine	S2
He was thy father too	J
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No more the youth could pangs endure	L2
His lips could never tell	M2
From death he vainly hop'd a cure	L2
As cold on earth he fell	M2
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She flew she gave her sorrows vent	J
A thousand tears she pour'd	J
Her mournful voice her moving plaint	J
The youth to life restor'd	J
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Why does thy bosom throb with pain	A
She cried my Edwin speak	N2
Or sure unable to sustain	A
This grief my heart will break	T2
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Yes it will break he fault'ring cried	J
For me will life resign	S2
Then trembling know thy father died	J
And know the guilt was mine	S2
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It is enough with short quick breath	D
Exclaim'd the fainting maid	J
She spoke no more but seem'd from death	D
To look for instant aid	J
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In plaintive accents Edwin cries	H2
And have I murder'd thee	D
To other worlds thy spirit flies	H2
And mine this stroke shall free	D
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His hand the lifted weapon grasp'd	J
The steel he firmly prest	J
When wildly she arose and clasp'd	J
Her lover to her breast	J
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Methought she cried with panting breath	D
My Edwin talk'd of peace	H2
I knew 'twas only found in death	D
And fear'd that sad release	H2
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I clasp him still 'twas but a dream	W
Help yon wide wound to close	H2
From which a father's spirits stream	W
A father's life blood flows	H2
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But see from thee he shrinks nor would	J
Be blasted by thy touch	U2
Ah tho' my Edwin spilt thy blood	J
Yet once he lov'd thee much	U2
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My father yet in pity stay	J
I see his white beard wave	V2
A spirit beckons him away	J
And points to yonder grave	V2
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Alas my love I trembling hear	Q2
A father's last adieu	J
I see I see the falling tear	P
His wrinkled cheek bedew	J
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He's gone and here his ashes sleep	W2
I do not heave a sigh	J
His child a father does not weep	W2
For ah my brain is dry	J
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But come together let us rove	D2
At the pale hour of night	J
When the moon wand'ring thro' the grove	D2
Shall pour her faintest light	J
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We'll gather from the rosy bow'r	X2
The fairest wreaths that bloom	Y2
We'll cull my love each op'ning flower	X
To deck his hallow'd tomb	Y2
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We'll thither from the distant dale	M2
A weeping willow bear	P
And plant a lily of the vale	M2
A drooping lily there	P
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We'll shun the face of glaring day	J
Eternal silence keep	W2
Thro' the dark wood together stray	J
And only live to weep	W2
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But hark 'tis come the fatal time	Z2
When Edwin we must part	J
Some angel tells me 'tis a crime	Z2
To hold thee to my heart	J
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My father's spirit hovers near	R
Alas he comes to chide	J
Is there no means my Edwin dear	R
The fatal deed to hide	J
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Yet Edwin if th' offence be thine	S2
Too soon I can forgive	A3
But oh the guilt would all be mine	S2
Could I endure to live	B3
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Farewel my love for oh I faint	J
Of pale despair I die	J
And see that hoary murder'd saint	J
Descends from yon blue sky	J
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Poor weak old man he comes my love	E
To lead to heav'n the way	J
He knows not heaven will joyless prove	O
If Edwin here must stay	J
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Oh who can bear this pang he cry'd	J
Then to his bosom prest	J
The dying maid who piteous sigh'd	J
And sunk to endless rest	J
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He saw her eyes for ever close	H2
He heard her latest sigh	J
And yet no tear of anguish flows	H2
From his distracted eye	J
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He feels within his shiv'ring veins	H2
A mortal chillness rise	H2
Her pallid corse he feebly strains	H2
And on her bosom dies	H2
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No longer may their hapless lot	J
The mournful muse engage	F
She wipes away the tears that blot	J
The melancholy page	F
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For heav'n in love dissolves the ties	H2
That chain the spirit here	Q2
And distant far for ever flies	H2
The blessing held most dear	R
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To bid the suff'ring soul aspire	R2
A higher bliss to prove	O
To wake the pure refin'd desire	X
The hope that rests above	E

Helen Maria Williams

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