Isolation: To Marguerite Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF EGEGHI JEJEKK ELEMDD ANANHI EEEEOP| We were apart yet day by day | A |
| I bade my heart more constant be | B |
| I bade it keep the world away | A |
| And grow a home for only thee | B |
| Nor fear'd but thy love likewise grew | C |
| Like mine each day more tried more true | C |
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| The fault was grave I might have known | D |
| What far too soon alas I learn'd | E |
| The heart can bind itself alone | D |
| And faith may oft be unreturn'd | E |
| Self sway'd our feelings ebb and swell | F |
| Thou lov'st no more Farewell Farewell | F |
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| Farewell and thou thou lonely heart | E |
| Which never yet without remorse | G |
| Even for a moment didst depart | E |
| From thy remote and spher egrave d course | G |
| To haunt the place where passions reign | H |
| Back to thy solitude again | I |
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| Back with the conscious thrill of shame | J |
| Which Luna felt that summer night | E |
| Flash through her pure immortal frame | J |
| When she forsook the starry height | E |
| To hang over Endymion's sleep | K |
| Upon the pine grown Latmian steep | K |
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| Yet she chaste queen had never proved | E |
| How vain a thing is mortal love | L |
| Wandering in Heaven far removed | E |
| But thou hast long had place to prove | M |
| This truth to prove and make thine own | D |
| Thou hast been shalt be art alone | D |
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| Or if not quite alone yet they | A |
| Which touch thee are unmating things | N |
| Ocean and clouds and night and day | A |
| Lorn autumns and triumphant springs | N |
| And life and others' joy and pain | H |
| And love if love of happier men | I |
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| Of happier men for they at least | E |
| Have dream'd two human hearts might blend | E |
| In one and were through faith released | E |
| From isolation without end | E |
| Prolong'd nor knew although not less | O |
| Alone than thou their loneliness | P |
Matthew Arnold
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