Girl At Her Devotions. By Newton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDEEFFGH IIJKLMAANNOOPPQQ RRSSTTARUURRVVWWSXYY| SHE was just risen from her bended knee | A |
| But yet peace seem'd not with her piety | A |
| For there was paleness upon her young cheek | B |
| And thoughts upon the lips which never speak | B |
| But wring the heart that at the last they break | C |
| Alas how much of misery may be read | D |
| In that wan forehead and that bow'd down head | D |
| Her eye is on a picture woe that ever | E |
| Love should thus struggle with a vain endeavour | E |
| Against itself it is a common tale | F |
| And ever will be while earth soils prevail | F |
| Over earth's happiness it tells she strove | G |
| With silent secret unrequited love | H |
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| It matters not its history love has wings | I |
| Like lightining swift and fatal and it springs | I |
| Like a wild flower where it is least expected | J |
| Existing whether cherish'd or rejected | K |
| Living with only but to be content | L |
| Hopeless for love is its own element | M |
| Requiring nothing so that it may be | A |
| The martyr of its fond fidelity | A |
| A mystery art thou thou mighty one | N |
| We speak thy name in beauty yet we shun | N |
| To own thee Love a guest the poet's songs | O |
| Are sweetest when their voice to thee belongs | O |
| And hope sweet opiate tenderness delight | P |
| Are terms which are thy own peculiar right | P |
| Yet all deny their master who will own | Q |
| His breast thy footstool and his heart thy throne | Q |
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| 'Tis strange to think if we could fling aside | R |
| The masque and mantle that love wears from pride | R |
| How much would be we now so little guess | S |
| Deep in each heart's undream'd unsought recess | S |
| The careless smile like a gay banner borne | T |
| The laugh of merriment the lip of scorn | T |
| And for a cloak what is there that can be | A |
| So difficult to pierce as gaiety | R |
| Too dazzling to be scann'd the haughty brow | U |
| Seems to hide something it would not avow | U |
| But rainbow words light laugh and thoughtless jest | R |
| These are the bars the curtain to the breast | R |
| That shuns a scrutiny and she whose form | V |
| Now bends in grief beneath the bosom's storm | V |
| Has hidden well her wound now none are nigh | W |
| To mock with curious or with careless eye | W |
| For love seeks sympathy a chilling yes | S |
| Strikes at the root of its best happiness | X |
| And mockery is worm wood she may dwell | Y |
| On feelings which that picture may not tell | Y |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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