Doubt. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADD EFFEGG HIIHCC JKKJLL HMMHHH LNNLOO PHHPQQ RCQRSC| I do not know if all the fault be mine | A |
| Or why I may not think of thee and be | B |
| At peace with mine own heart Unceasingly | C |
| Grim doubts beset me bygone words of thine | A |
| Take subtle meaning and I cannot rest | D |
| Till all my fears and follies are confessed | D |
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| Perhaps the wild wind's questioning has brought | E |
| My heart its melancholy for alone | F |
| In the night stillness I can hear him moan | F |
| In sobbing gusts as though he vainly sought | E |
| Some bygone bliss Against the dripping pane | G |
| In storm blown torrents beats the driving rain | G |
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| Nay I will tell thee all I will not hide | H |
| One thought from thee and if I do thee wrong | I |
| So much the more must I be brave and strong | I |
| To show my fault And if thou then shouldst chide | H |
| I will accept reproof most willingly | C |
| So it but bringeth peace to thee and me | C |
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| I dread thy past Phantoms of other days | J |
| Pursue my vision There are other hands | K |
| Which thou hast held perchance some slender bands | K |
| That draw thee still to other woodland ways | J |
| Than those which we have known some blissful hours | L |
| I do not share of love and June and flowers | L |
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| I dread her most that woman whom thou knewest | H |
| Those years ago I cannot bear to think | M |
| That she can say My lover praised the pink | M |
| Of palm or ear The violets were bluest | H |
| In that dear copse and dream of some fair day | H |
| When thou didst while her summer hours away | H |
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| I dread them too those light loves and desires | L |
| That lie in the dim shadow of the years | N |
| I fain would cheat myself of all my fears | N |
| And as a child watching warm winter fires | L |
| Dream not of yesterday's black embers nor | O |
| To morrow's ashes that may strew the floor | O |
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| I did not dream of this while thou wert near | P |
| But now the thought that haunts me day by day | H |
| Is that the things I love the tender way | H |
| Of mastery the kisses that are dear | P |
| As Heaven's best gifts to other lips and arms | Q |
| Owe half their blessedness and all their charms | Q |
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| Tell me that I am wrong O Man of men | R |
| Surely it is not hard to comfort me | C |
| Laugh at my fears with dear persistency | Q |
| Nay if thou must lie to me There again | R |
| I hear the rain and the wind's wailing cry | S |
| Stirs with wild life the night's monotony | C |
Sophie M. (almon) Hensley
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