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Mesmerism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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All I believed is true	B
I am able yet	C
All I want to get	C
By a method as strange as new	B
Dare I trust the same to you	B
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II	A
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If at night when doors are shut	D
And the wood worm picks	E
And the death watch ticks	E
And the bar has a flag of smut	D
And a cat's in the water butt	D
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III	A
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And the socket floats and flares	F
And the house beams groan	G
And a foot unknown	G
Is surmised on the garret stairs	F
And the locks slip unawares	F
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IV	H
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And the spider to serve his ends	I
By a sudden thread	J
Arms and legs outspread	J
On the table's midst descends	I
Comes to find God knows what friends	I
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V	H
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If since eve drew in I say	K
I have sat and brought	J
So to speak my thought	J
To bear on the woman away	K
Till I felt my hair turn grey	K
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VI	H
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Till I seemed to have and hold	J
In the vacancy	H
'Twixt the wall and me	H
From the hair plait's chestnut gold	J
To the foot in its muslin fold	J
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VII	H
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Have and hold then and there	L
Her from head to foot	J
Breathing and mute	J
Passive and yet aware	L
In the grasp of my steady stare	L
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VIII	H
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Hold and have there and then	M
All her body and soul	N
That completes my whole	N
All that women add to men	M
In the clutch of my steady ken	M
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IX	H
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Having and holding till	O
I imprint her fast	J
On the void at last	J
As the sun does whom he will	O
By the calotypist's skill	O
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X	H
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Then if my heart's strength serve	H
And through all and each	P
Of the veils I reach	P
To her soul and never swerve	H
Knitting an iron nerve	H
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XI	H
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Command her soul to advance	H
And inform the shape	Q
Which has made escape	Q
And before my countenance	H
Answers me glance for glance	H
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XII	H
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I still with a gesture fit	J
Of my hands that best	J
Do my soul's behest	J
Pointing the power from it	J
While myself do steadfast sit	J
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XIII	H
	-
Steadfast and still the same	R
On my object bent	J
While the hands give vent	J
To my ardour and my aim	R
And break into very flame	R
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XIV	H
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Then I reach I must believe	H
Not her soul in vain	S
For to me again	M
It reaches and past retrieve	H
Is wound in the toils I weave	H
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XV	H
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And must follow as I require	T
As befits a thrall	U
Bringing flesh and all	U
Essence and earth attire	T
To the source of the tractile fire	T
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XVI	H
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Till the house called hers not mine	V
With a growing weight	J
Seems to suffocate	J
If she break not its leaden line	V
And escape from its close confine	V
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XVII	H
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Out of doors into the night	J
On to the maze	H
Of the wild wood ways	H
Not turning to left nor right	J
From the pathway blind with sight	J
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XVIII	H
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Making thro' rain and wind	J
O'er the broken shrubs	H
'Twixt the stems and stubs	H
With a still composed strong mind	J
Nor a care for the world behind	J
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XIX	H
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Swifter and still more swift	J
As the crowding peace	H
Doth to joy increase	H
In the wide blind eyes uplift	J
Thro' the darkness and the drift	J
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XX	H
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While I to the shape I too	J
Feel my soul dilate	J
Nor a whit abate	J
And relax not a gesture due	J
As I see my belief come true	J
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XXI	H
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For there have I drawn or no	W
Life to that lip	X
Do my fingers dip	X
In a flame which again they throw	W
On the cheek that breaks a glow	W
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XXII	H
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Ha was the hair so first	J
What unfilleted	J
Made alive and spread	J
Through the void with a rich outburst	J
Chestnut gold interspersed	J
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XXTII	J
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Like the doors of a casket shrine	V
See on either side	J
Her two arms divide	J
Till the heart betwixt makes sign	V
Take me for I am thine	V
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XXIV	H
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Now now'' the door is heard	J
Hark the stairs and near	Y
Nearer and here	Z
Now '' and at call the third	J
She enters without a word	J
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XXV	H
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On doth she march and on	A2
To the fancied shape	Q
It is past escape	Q
Herself now the dream is done	B2
And the shadow and she are one	B2
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XXVI	H
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First I will pray Do Thou	C2
That ownest the soul	N
Yet wilt grant control	N
To another nor disallow	C2
For a time restrain me now	C2
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XXVII	H
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I admonish me while I may	K
Not to squander guilt	J
Since require Thou wilt	J
At my hand its price one day	K
What the price is who can say	K