Love And Madness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEE FFGGHH IIJJKK LLMM NOPPQRMM SSTTUUVV JJWWXXAY ZZHHA2A2 PPB2B2 C2C2D2E2II FFF2C2MM| Hark from the battlements of yonder tower | A |
| The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour | A |
| Roused from drear visions of distempered sleep | B |
| Poor Broderick wakes in solitude to weep | B |
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| Cease Memory cease the friendless mourner cried | C |
| To probe the bosom too severely tried | C |
| Oh ever cease my pensive thoughts to stray | D |
| Through tie bright fields of Fortune's better day | D |
| When youthful Hope the music of the mind | E |
| Tuned all its charms and Errington was kind | E |
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| Yet can I cease while glows this trembling frame | F |
| In sighs to speak thy melancholy name | F |
| I hear thy spirit wail in every storm | G |
| In midniglit shades I view thy passing form | G |
| Pale as in that sad hour when doomed to feel | H |
| Deep in thy perjured heart the bloody steel | H |
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| Demons of Vengeance ye at whose command | I |
| I grasped the sword with more than woman's hand | I |
| Say ye did Pity's trembling voice control | J |
| Or horror damp the purpose of my soul | J |
| No my wild heart sat smiling o'er the plan | K |
| 'Till Hate fulfilled what baffled love began | K |
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| Yes let the clay cold breast that never knew | L |
| One tender pang to generous nature true | L |
| Half mingling pity with the gall of scorn | M |
| Condemn this heart that bled in love forlorn | M |
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| And ye proud fair whose soul no gladness warms | N |
| Save Rapture's homage to your conscious charms | O |
| Delighted idols of a gaudy train | P |
| Ill can your blunter feelings guess the pain | P |
| When the fond faithful heart inspired to prove | Q |
| Friendship refined the calm delight of Love | R |
| Feels all its tender strings with anguish torn | M |
| And bleeds at perjured Pride's inhuman scorn | M |
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| Say then did pitying Heaven condemn the deed | S |
| When Vengeance bade thee faithless lover bleed | S |
| Long had I watched thy dark foreboding brow | T |
| What time thy bosom scorned its dearest vow | T |
| Sad though I wept the friend the lover changed | U |
| Still thy cold look was scornful and estranged | U |
| Till from thy pity love and shelter thrown | V |
| I wandered hopeless friendless and alone | V |
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| Oh righteous Heaven 't was then my tortured soul | J |
| First gave to wrath unlimited control | J |
| Adieu the silent look the streaming eye | W |
| The murmured plaint the deep heart heaving sigh | W |
| Long slumbering Vengeance wakes to better deeds | X |
| He shrieks he falls the perjured lover bleeds | X |
| Now the last laugh of agony is o'er | A |
| And pale in blood he sleeps to wake no more | Y |
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| 'T is done the flame of hate no longer burns | Z |
| Nature relents but ah too late returns | Z |
| Why does my soul this gush of fondness feel | H |
| Trembling and faint I drop the guilty steel | H |
| Cold on my heart the hand of terror lies | A2 |
| And shades of horror close my languid eyes | A2 |
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| Oh 't was a deed of Murder's deepest grain | P |
| Could Broderick's soul so true to wrath remain | P |
| A friend long true a once fond lover fell | B2 |
| Where Love was fostered could not Pity dwell | B2 |
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| Unhappy youth while you pale cresscent glows | C2 |
| To watch on silent Nature's deep repose | C2 |
| Thy sleepless spirit breathing from the tomb | D2 |
| Foretells my fate and summons me to come | E2 |
| Once more I see thy sheeted spectre stand | I |
| Roll the dim eye and wave the paly hand | I |
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| Soon may this fluttering spark of vital flame | F |
| Forsake its languid melancholy frame | F |
| Soon may these eyes their trembling lustre close | F2 |
| Welcome the dreamless night of long repose | C2 |
| Soon may this woe worn spirit seek the bourne | M |
| Where lulled to slumber Grief forgets to mourn | M |
Thomas Campbell
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