Isabel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC BDBDC EFEFC GHGHC BIBIC JKJJKC GBLGBC MNONC GPGPC QEERC STSUVTC VBFBC| In the most early morn | A |
| I rise from a damp pillow tempest tost | B |
| To seek the sun with silent gaze forlorn | A |
| And mourn for thee my lost | B |
| Isabel | C |
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| That early hour I meet | B |
| The daily vigil of my life to keep | D |
| Because there are no other lights so sweet | B |
| Or shades so long and deep | D |
| Isabel | C |
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| And best I think of thee | E |
| Beside the duskest shade and brightest sun | F |
| Whose mystic lot in life it was to be | E |
| Outshone outwept by none | F |
| Isabel | C |
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| Men said that thou wert fair | G |
| There is no brightness in the heaven above | H |
| There is no balm upon the summer air | G |
| Like thy warm love | H |
| Isabel | C |
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| Men saw that thou wert bright | B |
| There is no wildness in the winds that blow | I |
| There is no darkness in the winter's night | B |
| Like thy dark woe | I |
| Isabel | C |
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| And yet thy path did miss | J |
| Men's footsteps in their haunts thou hadst no joy | K |
| The thoughts of other worlds were thine in this | J |
| In thy sweet piety and in thy bliss | J |
| And grief for life too coy | K |
| Isabel | C |
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| And so my heart's despair | G |
| Looks for thee ere the firstling smoke hath curled | B |
| While the rapt earth is at her morning pray'r | L |
| Ere yet she putteth on her workday air | G |
| And robes her for the world | B |
| Isabel | C |
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| When the sun burst is o'er | M |
| My lonely way about the world I take | N |
| Doing and saying much and feeling more | O |
| And all things for thy sake | N |
| Isabel | C |
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| But never once I dare | G |
| To see thine image till the day be new | P |
| And lip hath sullied not the unbreathed air | G |
| And waking eyes are few | P |
| Isabel | C |
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| Then that lost form appears | Q |
| Which was a joy to few on earth but me | E |
| In the young light I see thy guileless glee | E |
| In the deep dews thy tears | R |
| Isabel | C |
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| So with Promethean moan | S |
| In widowhood renewed I learn to grieve | T |
| Blest with one only thought that I alone | S |
| Can fade that thou thro' years shalt still shine on | U |
| In beauty as in beauty art thou gone | V |
| Thou morn that knew no eve | T |
| Isabel | C |
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| In beauty art thou gone | V |
| As some bright meteor gleams across the night | B |
| Gazed on by all but understood by none | F |
| And dying by its own excess of light | B |
| Isabel | C |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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