At First. To Charlotte Cushman. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JCJC KLKL MNMN OPOP CQCQMy 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 |
Sidney Lanier
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