At First: To Charlotte Cushman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JCJC KLKL MNMN OPOP CQCQ R| My crippled sense fares bow'd along | A |
| His uncompanioned way | B |
| And wronged by death pays life with wrong | A |
| And I wake by night and dream by day | B |
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| And the Morning seems but fatigued Night | C |
| That hath wept his visage pale | D |
| And the healthy mark 'twixt dark and light | C |
| In sickly sameness out doth fail | D |
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| And the woods stare strange and the wind is dumb | E |
| O Wind pray talk again | F |
| And the Hand of the Frost spreads stark and numb | E |
| As Death's on the deadened window pane | G |
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| Still dumb thou Wind old voluble friend | H |
| And the middle of the day is cold | I |
| And the heart of eve beats lax i' the end | H |
| As a legend's climax poorly told | I |
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| Oh vain the up straining of the hands | J |
| In the chamber late at night | C |
| Oh vain the complainings the hot demands | J |
| The prayers for a sound the tears for a sight | C |
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| No word from over the starry line | K |
| No motion felt in the dark | L |
| And never a day gives ever a sign | K |
| Or a dream sets seal with palpable mark | L |
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| And O my God how slight it were | M |
| How nothing thou All to thee | N |
| That a kiss or a whisper might fall from her | M |
| Down by the way of Time to me | N |
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| Or some least grace of the body of love | O |
| Mere wafture of floating by | P |
| Mere sense of unseen smiling above | O |
| Mere hint sincere of a large blue eye | P |
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| Mere dim receipt of sad delight | C |
| From Nearness warm in the air | Q |
| What time with the passing of the night | C |
| She also passed somehow somewhere | Q |
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| Baltimore | R |
Sidney Lanier
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