The Reply Of The Fountain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH CJCJ CKCK LMNM COCO PQPQ CCCC CRCR STUV WXWX YZA2Z SB2SB2 BC2XC2 D2E2D2E2 F2CG2C H2I2H2 CMCM CNCN

HOW deep within each human heartA
A thousand treasured feelings lieB
Things precious delicate apartA
Too sensitive for human eyeB
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Our purest feelings and our bestC
Yet shrinking from the common viewD
Rarely except in song exprestC
And yet how tender and how trueD
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They wake and know their power when eveE
Flings on the west its transient glowF
Yet long dark shadows dimly weaveE
A gloom round some green path belowF
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Who dreams not then the young dream onG
Life traced at hope's delicious willH
And those whose youth of heart is goneI
Perhaps have visions dearer stillH
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They rise too when expected leastC
When gay yourself amid the gayJ
The heart from revelry hath ceasedC
To muse o'er hours long past awayJ
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And who can think upon the pastC
And not weep o'er it as a graveK
How many leaves life's wreath has castC
What lights have sunk beneath the waveK
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But most these deep emotions riseL
When drooping o'er our thoughts aloneM
Our former dearest sympathiesN
Come back and claim us for their ownM
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Such mood is on the maiden's mindC
Who bends o'er yon clear fount her browO
Long years that leave their trace behindC
Long years are present with her nowO
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Yet once before she asked a signP
From that wild fountain's plaintive songQ
And silvery with the soft moonshineP
Those singing waters past alongQ
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It was an hour of beauty madeC
For the young heart's impassioned moodC
For love of its sweet self afraidC
For hope that colours solitudeC
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'Alas ' the maiden sighed 'since firstC
I said Oh fountain read my doomR
What vainest fancies have I nurstC
Of which I am myself the tombR
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'The love was checked the hope was vainS
I deemed that I could feel no moreT
Why false one did we meet againU
To show thine influence was not o'erV
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'I thought that I could never weepW
Again as I had wept for theeX
That love was buried cold and deepW
That pride and scorn kept watch by meX
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'My early hopes my early tearsY
Were now almost forgotten thingsZ
And other cares and other yearsA2
Had brought what all experience bringsZ
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'Indifference weariness disdainS
That taught and ready smile which growsB2
A habit soon as streams retainS
The shape and light in which they frozeB2
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'Again I met that faithless eyeB
Again I heard that charmed tongueC2
I felt they were my destinyX
I knew again the spell they flungC2
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'Ah years have fled since last his nameD2
Was breathed amid the twilight dimE2
It was to dream of him I cameD2
And now again I dream of himE2
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'But changed and cold my soul has beenF2
Too deeply wrung too long unmovedC
Too hardened in life's troubled sceneG2
To love as I could once have lovedC
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'Sweet fountain once I asked thy wavesH2
To whisper hope's enchanted spellI2
Now I but ask thy haunted cavesH2
To teach me how to say farewell '-
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She leaned her head upon her handC
She gazed upon that fountain loneM
Which wandered by its wild flower strandC
With a low mournful ceaseless moanM
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It soothed her with a sweet deceitC
Of pity murmured on the breezeN
Ah deep the grief which seeks to cheatC
Itself with fantasies like theseN

Letitia Elizabeth Landon



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