Victoria Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBC BDBD EFGHF BIBI| A | |
| 'Twas dead of the night when I sat in my dwelling | B |
| One glimmering lamp was expiring and low | C |
| Around the dark tide of the tempest was swelling | B |
| Along the wild mountains night ravens were yelling | B |
| They bodingly presaged destruction and woe | C |
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| 'Twas then that I started the wild storm was howling | B |
| Nought was seen save the lightning which danced in the sky | D |
| Above me the crash of the thunder was rolling | B |
| And low chilling murmurs the blast wafted by | D |
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| My heart sank within me unheeded the war | E |
| Of the battling clouds on the mountain tops broke | F |
| Unheeded the thunder peal crashed in mine ear | G |
| This heart hard as iron is stranger to fear | H |
| But conscience in low noiseless whispering spoke | F |
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| 'Twas then that her form on the whirlwind upholding | B |
| The ghost of the murdered Victoria strode | I |
| In her right hand a shadowy shroud she was holding | B |
| She swiftly advanced to my lonesome abode | I |
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| I wildly then called on the tempest to bear me ' | - |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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