The Lunatic Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHAIJKLMNOPQRS TABTUPVWIXIYZA2B2C2D 2E2F2G2H2I2J2WK2L2M2 E2N2F2J2PO2YBP2KTBAT Q2E2O2 TE2PT| Most beautiful most gentle Yet how lost | A |
| To all that gladdens the fair earth the eye | B |
| That watched her being the maternal care | C |
| That kept and nourished her and the calm light | D |
| That steals from our own thoughts and softly rests | E |
| On youth's green vallies and smooth sliding waters | F |
| Alas few suns of life and fewer winds | G |
| Had withered or had wasted the fresh rose | H |
| That bloomed upon her cheek but one chill frost | A |
| Came in that early Autumn when ripe thought | I |
| Is rich and beautiful and blighted it | J |
| And the fair stalk grew languid day by day | K |
| And drooped and drooped and shed its many leaves | L |
| 'Tis said that some have died of love and some | M |
| Love's passionate feelings and heart wasting cares | N |
| have spurned life's threshold with a desperate foot | O |
| And others have gone mad and she was one | P |
| Her lover died at sea and they had felt | Q |
| A coldness for each other when they parted | R |
| But love returned again and to her ear | S |
| Came tidings that the ship which bore her lover | T |
| Had sullenly gone down at sea and all were lost | A |
| I saw her in her native vale when high | B |
| The aspiring lark up from the reedy river | T |
| Mounted on cheerful pinion and she sat | U |
| Casting smooth pebbles into a clear fountain | P |
| And marking how they sunk and oft she sighed | V |
| For him that perished thus in the vast deep | W |
| She had a sea shell that her lover brought | I |
| From the far distant ocean and she pressed | X |
| Its smooth cold lips unto her ear and thought | I |
| It whispered tiding of the dark blue sea | Y |
| And sad she cried 'The tides are out and now | Z |
| I see his corse upon the stormy beach ' | A2 |
| Around her neck a string of rose lipped shells | B2 |
| And coral and white pearl was loosely hung | C2 |
| And close beside her lay a delicate fan | D2 |
| Made of the halcyon's blue wing and when | E2 |
| She looked upon it it would calm her thoughts | F2 |
| As that bird calms the ocean for it gave | G2 |
| Mournful yet pleasant memory Once I marked | H2 |
| When through the mountain hollows and green woods | I2 |
| That bent beneath its footsteps the loud wind | J2 |
| Came with a voice as of the restless deep | W |
| She raised her head and on her pale cold cheek | K2 |
| A beauty of diviner seeming came | L2 |
| And then she spread her hands and smiled as if | M2 |
| She welcomed a long absent friend and then | E2 |
| Shrunk timorously back again and wept | N2 |
| I turned away a multitude of thoughts | F2 |
| Mournful and dark were crowding on my mind | J2 |
| And as I left that lost and ruined one | P |
| A living monument that still on earth | O2 |
| There is warm love and deep sincerity | Y |
| She gazed upon the west where the blue sky | B |
| Held like an ccean in its wide embrace | P2 |
| Those fairy islands of bright cloud that lay | K |
| So calm and quietly in the thin ether | T |
| And then she pointed where alone and high | B |
| One little cloud sailed onward like a lost | A |
| And wandering bark and fainter grew and fainter | T |
| And soon was swallowed up in the blue depths | Q2 |
| And when it sunk away she turned again | E2 |
| With sad despondency and tears to earth | O2 |
| - | |
| Three long and weary months yet not a whisper | T |
| Of stern reproach for that cold parting Then | E2 |
| She sat no longer by her favorite fountain | P |
| She was at rest forever | T |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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