Lemoine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDAEEA FGHIIH JJJKKJ LLMNNM OOPBBO JJQJJQ RRMGGM JJSJJS TUVOOV SSJWWJ JJJJJJ XXMYYM SSSZZSIn the unquiet night | A |
With all her beauty bright | A |
She walketh my silent chamber to and fro | B |
Not twice of the same mind | C |
Sometimes unkind unkind | C |
And again no cooing dove hath a voice so sweet and low | B |
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Such madness of mirth lies | D |
In the haunting hazel eyes | D |
When the melody of her laugh charms the listening night | A |
Its glamour as of old | E |
My charmed senses hold | E |
Forget I earth and heaven in the pleasures of sense and sight | A |
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With sudden gay caprice | F |
Quaint sonnets doth she seize | G |
Wedding them unto sweetness falling from crimson lips | H |
Holding the broidered flowers | I |
Of those enchanted hours | I |
When she wound my will with her silk round her white finger tips | H |
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Then doth she silent stand | J |
Lifting her slender hand | J |
On which gleams the ring I tore from his hand at Baywood | J |
The tiny opal hearts | K |
Are broken in two parts | K |
And where the ruby burned there hangeth a drop of blood | J |
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Then with my burning cheek | L |
Raising my head I speak | L |
Lemoine Lemoine my lost Oh speak to me once I pray | M |
But no word will she deign | N |
Adown the shining lane | N |
The long and lustrous lane of the moonlight she glides away | M |
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I fancy oft a stir | O |
Of wings seem following her | O |
Trailing a terrible gloom along the oaken floor | P |
As she walks to and fro | B |
Louder the strange sounds grow | B |
To a nameless dreadful horror that floods the chamber o'er | O |
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And then I raise my head | J |
From terror haunted bed | J |
And hush my breath and my very pulses hush and hark | Q |
But as I glance around | J |
The stir the murmuring sound | J |
Dies away in the moonlight lying there stiff and stark | Q |
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And thus you ever flee | R |
Elude and baffle me | R |
My lady you will not always so lightly glide away | M |
Though on the swiftest breeze | G |
You sail o'er farthest seas | G |
Remember side by side we two will stand one day | M |
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Though my dust feed the wind | J |
Yours be with prayer consigned | J |
To the keeping of churchyard seraphs and marble saints | S |
Lemoine we two shall meet | J |
And not then at my feet | J |
Will you fetter a late repentance with wiles and tearful plaints | S |
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Repentance and strong | T |
That would have found a tongue | U |
And shrieked the truth to heaven with madd'ning din | V |
The truth of that dread hour | O |
That black accursed hour | O |
When to free you from hated fetters I plunged my soul in sin | V |
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Whatever wise man thinks | S |
Sin forges strongest links | S |
You can break them never although for a time you may hide | J |
Buried in flowers and wine | W |
This chain of thine and mine | W |
At the last dread day of doom will draw us side by side | J |
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If one then both are cursed | J |
And come the best the worst | J |
Forever and ever your fate and mine are entwined | J |
And though it be mad mad | J |
Heaven knows the thought is glad | J |
I do not breed my thoughts how can I help my mind | J |
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So silent doth she come | X |
Standing here pale and dumb | X |
With her finger laid on her lips in a warning way | M |
Her dark eyes looking back | Y |
As if upon her track | Y |
And mine some phantom shape of impending evil lay | M |
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But when I strive to see | S |
Of what she's warning me | S |
Cruelly calm no sign will she deign to love or fears | S |
Unheeding vow or prayer | Z |
As noiseless as the air | Z |
She glideth into the pallid moonlight and disappears | S |
Marietta Holley
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