At First. To Charlotte Cushman. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JCJC KLKL MNMN OPOP CQCQ

My crippled sense fares bow'd alongA
His uncompanioned wayB
And wronged by death pays life with wrongA
And I wake by night and dream by dayB
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And the Morning seems but fatigued NightC
That hath wept his visage paleD
And the healthy mark 'twixt dark and lightC
In sickly sameness out doth failD
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And the woods stare strange and the wind is dumbE
O Wind pray talk againF
And the Hand of the Frost spreads stark and numbE
As Death's on the deadened window paneG
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Still dumb thou Wind old voluble friendH
And the middle of the day is coldI
And the heart of eve beats lax i' the endH
As a legend's climax poorly toldI
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Oh vain the up straining of the handsJ
In the chamber late at nightC
Oh vain the complainings the hot demandsJ
The prayers for a sound the tears for a sightC
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No word from over the starry lineK
No motion felt in the darkL
And never a day gives ever a signK
Or a dream sets seal with palpable markL
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And O my God how slight it wereM
How nothing thou All to theeN
That a kiss or a whisper might fall from herM
Down by the way of Time to meN
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Or some least grace of the body of loveO
Mere wafture of floating byP
Mere sense of unseen smiling aboveO
Mere hint sincere of a large blue eyeP
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Mere dim receipt of sad delightC
From Nearness warm in the airQ
What time with the passing of the nightC
She also passed somehow somewhereQ

Sidney Lanier



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