Lemoine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDAEEA FGHIIH JJJKKJ LLMNNM OOPBBO JJQJJQ RRMGGM JJSJJS TUVOOV SSJWWJ JJJJJJ XXMYYM SSSZZS

In the unquiet nightA
With all her beauty brightA
She walketh my silent chamber to and froB
Not twice of the same mindC
Sometimes unkind unkindC
And again no cooing dove hath a voice so sweet and lowB
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Such madness of mirth liesD
In the haunting hazel eyesD
When the melody of her laugh charms the listening nightA
Its glamour as of oldE
My charmed senses holdE
Forget I earth and heaven in the pleasures of sense and sightA
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With sudden gay capriceF
Quaint sonnets doth she seizeG
Wedding them unto sweetness falling from crimson lipsH
Holding the broidered flowersI
Of those enchanted hoursI
When she wound my will with her silk round her white finger tipsH
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Then doth she silent standJ
Lifting her slender handJ
On which gleams the ring I tore from his hand at BaywoodJ
The tiny opal heartsK
Are broken in two partsK
And where the ruby burned there hangeth a drop of bloodJ
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Then with my burning cheekL
Raising my head I speakL
Lemoine Lemoine my lost Oh speak to me once I prayM
But no word will she deignN
Adown the shining laneN
The long and lustrous lane of the moonlight she glides awayM
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I fancy oft a stirO
Of wings seem following herO
Trailing a terrible gloom along the oaken floorP
As she walks to and froB
Louder the strange sounds growB
To a nameless dreadful horror that floods the chamber o'erO
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And then I raise my headJ
From terror haunted bedJ
And hush my breath and my very pulses hush and harkQ
But as I glance aroundJ
The stir the murmuring soundJ
Dies away in the moonlight lying there stiff and starkQ
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And thus you ever fleeR
Elude and baffle meR
My lady you will not always so lightly glide awayM
Though on the swiftest breezeG
You sail o'er farthest seasG
Remember side by side we two will stand one dayM
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Though my dust feed the windJ
Yours be with prayer consignedJ
To the keeping of churchyard seraphs and marble saintsS
Lemoine we two shall meetJ
And not then at my feetJ
Will you fetter a late repentance with wiles and tearful plaintsS
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Repentance and strongT
That would have found a tongueU
And shrieked the truth to heaven with madd'ning dinV
The truth of that dread hourO
That black accursed hourO
When to free you from hated fetters I plunged my soul in sinV
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Whatever wise man thinksS
Sin forges strongest linksS
You can break them never although for a time you may hideJ
Buried in flowers and wineW
This chain of thine and mineW
At the last dread day of doom will draw us side by sideJ
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If one then both are cursedJ
And come the best the worstJ
Forever and ever your fate and mine are entwinedJ
And though it be mad madJ
Heaven knows the thought is gladJ
I do not breed my thoughts how can I help my mindJ
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So silent doth she comeX
Standing here pale and dumbX
With her finger laid on her lips in a warning wayM
Her dark eyes looking backY
As if upon her trackY
And mine some phantom shape of impending evil layM
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But when I strive to seeS
Of what she's warning meS
Cruelly calm no sign will she deign to love or fearsS
Unheeding vow or prayerZ
As noiseless as the airZ
She glideth into the pallid moonlight and disappearsS

Marietta Holley



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