Rachel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB BCCB DEF DEF A GFFG GFFG CHC CHC A CIIC CIIC IJC JCI| I | A |
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| In paris all look'd hot and like to fade | B |
| Brown in the garden of the Tuileries | C |
| Brown with September droop'd the chestnut trees | C |
| 'Twas dawn a brougham roll'd through the streets and made | B |
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| Halt at the white and silent colonnade | B |
| Of the French Theatre Worn with disease | C |
| Rachel with eyes no gazing can appease | C |
| Sate in the brougham and those blank walls survey'd | B |
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| She follows the gay world whose swarms have fled | D |
| To Switzerland to Baden to the Rhine | E |
| Why stops she by this empty play house drear | F |
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| Ah where the spirit its highest life hath led | D |
| All spots match'd with that spot are less divine | E |
| And Rachel's Switzerland her Rhine is here | F |
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| II | A |
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| Unto a lonely villa in a dell | G |
| Above the fragrant warm Provencal shore | F |
| The dying Rachel in a chair they bore | F |
| Up the steep pine plumed paths of the Estrelle | G |
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| And laid her in a stately room where fell | G |
| The shadow of a marble Muse of yore | F |
| The rose crown'd queen of legendary lore | F |
| Polymnia full on her death bed 'Twas well | G |
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| The fret and misery of our northern towns | C |
| In this her life's last day our poor our pain | H |
| Our jangle of false wits our climate's frowns | C |
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| Do for this radiant Greek soul'd artist cease | C |
| Sole object of her dying eyes remain | H |
| The beauty and the glorious art of Greece | C |
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| III | A |
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| Sprung from the blood of Israel's scatter'd race | C |
| At a mean inn in German Aarau born | I |
| To forms from antique Greece and Rome uptorn | I |
| Trick'd out with a Parisian speech and face | C |
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| Imparting life renew'd old classic grace | C |
| Then soothing with thy Christian strain forlorn | I |
| A Kempis her departing soul outworn | I |
| While by her bedside Hebrew rites have place | C |
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| Ah not the radiant spirit of Greece alone | I |
| She had one power which made her breast its home | J |
| In her like us there clash'd contending powers | C |
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| Germany France Christ Moses Athens Rome | J |
| The strife the mixture in her soul are ours | C |
| Her genius and her glory are her own | I |
Matthew Arnold
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