The Maniac Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE AFAG HIHI JKJK LMEM NONO PQPQ RASA TOTO FUFU| A story is told in Spain of a woman who by a sudden shock of domestic calamity became insane and ever after looked up incessantly to the sky | A |
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| O'er her infant's couch of death | B |
| Bent a widowed mother low | C |
| And the quick convulsive breath | B |
| Marked the inward weight of woe | C |
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| Round the fair child's forehead clung | D |
| Golden tresses damp and bright | E |
| While Death's pinion o'er it hung | D |
| And the parted lips grew white | E |
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| Reason left the mother's eye | A |
| When the latest pang was o'er | F |
| Then she raised her gaze on high | A |
| Turned it earthward nevermore | G |
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| By the dark and silent tomb | H |
| Where they laid the dead to rest | I |
| By the empty cradle's gloom | H |
| And the fireside once so blest | I |
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| In the lone and narrow cell | J |
| Fettered by the clanking chain | K |
| Where the maniac's piercing yell | J |
| Thrilled the heart with dread and pain | K |
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| Upward still she fixed her gaze | L |
| Tearless and bewildered too | M |
| Speaking of the fearful night | E |
| Madness o'er the spirit threw | M |
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| Upward upward till in love | N |
| Death removed the veil of Time | O |
| Raised the broken heart above | N |
| To the far off healing clime | O |
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| Mortal o'er the field of Life | P |
| Pressing with uncertain tread | Q |
| Mourning in the torrent strife | P |
| Blessings lost and pleasures fled | Q |
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| A sublimer faith was taught | R |
| By the maniac's frenzied eye | A |
| Than Philosophy e'er caught | S |
| From intensest thought and high | A |
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| When the heart is crushed and broken | T |
| By the death bell's sullen chime | O |
| By the faded friendship's token | T |
| Or the wild remorse of crime | O |
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| Turn to earth for succor never | F |
| But beyond her light and shade | U |
| Toward the blue skies look forever | F |
| God and God alone can aid | U |
Mary Gardiner Horsford
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