Reuben And Rose. A Tale Of Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC DEDE FGFG HIHI JEJE KLKL LMLF NOPO ABAB QRQR KSKS SCTC UVUV WXWX YCYC ZSA2S| The darkness that hung upon Willumberg's walls | A |
| Had long been remembered with awe and dismay | B |
| For years not a sunbeam had played in its halls | A |
| And it seemed as shut out from the regions of day | B |
| - | |
| Though the valleys were brightened by many a beam | C |
| Yet none could the woods of that castle illume | C |
| And the lightning which flashed on the neighboring stream | C |
| Flew back as if fearing to enter the gloom | C |
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| Oh when shall this horrible darkness disperse | D |
| Said Willumberg's lord to the Seer of the Cave | E |
| It can never dispel said the wizard of verse | D |
| Till the bright star of chivalry sinks in the wave | E |
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| And who was the bright star of chivalry then | F |
| Who could be but Reuben the flower of the age | G |
| For Reuben was first in the combat of men | F |
| Though Youth had scarce written his name on her page | G |
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| For Willumberg's daughter his young heart had beat | H |
| For Rose who was bright as the spirit of dawn | I |
| When with wand dropping diamonds and silvery feet | H |
| It walks o'er the flowers of the mountain and lawn | I |
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| Must Rose then from Reuben so fatally sever | J |
| Sad sad were the words of the Seer of the Cave | E |
| That darkness should cover that castle forever | J |
| Or Reuben be sunk in the merciless wave | E |
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| To the wizard she flew saying Tell me oh tell | K |
| Shall my Reuben no more be restored to my eyes | L |
| Yes yes when a spirit shall toll the great bell | K |
| Of the mouldering abbey your Reuben shall rise | L |
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| Twice thrice he repeated Your Reuben shall rise | L |
| And Rose felt a moment's release from her pain | M |
| And wiped while she listened the tears from her eyes | L |
| And hoped she might yet see her hero again | F |
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| That hero could smite at the terrors of death | N |
| When he felt that he died for the sire of his Rose | O |
| To the Oder he flew and there plunging beneath | P |
| In the depth of the billows soon found his repose | O |
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| How strangely the order of destiny falls | A |
| Not long in the waters the warrior lay | B |
| When a sunbeam was seen to glance over the walls | A |
| And the castle of Willumberg basked in the ray | B |
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| All all but the soul of the maid was in light | Q |
| There sorrow and terror lay gloomy and blank | R |
| Two days did she wander and all the long night | Q |
| In quest of her love on the wide river's bank | R |
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| Oft oft did she pause for the toll of the bell | K |
| And heard but the breathings of night in the air | S |
| Long long did she gaze on the watery swell | K |
| And saw but the foam of the white billow there | S |
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| And often as midnight its veil would undraw | S |
| As she looked at the light of the moon in the stream | C |
| She thought 'twas his helmet of silver she saw | T |
| As the curl of the surge glittered high in the beam | C |
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| And now the third night was begemming the sky | U |
| Poor Rose on the cold dewy margent reclined | V |
| There wept till the tear almost froze in her eye | U |
| When hark 'twas the bell that came deep in the wind | V |
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| She startled and saw through the glimmering shade | W |
| A form o'er the waters in majesty glide | X |
| She knew 'twas her love though his cheek was decayed | W |
| And his helmet of silver was washed by the tide | X |
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| Was this what the Seer of the Cave had foretold | Y |
| Dim dim through the phantom the moon shot a gleam | C |
| 'Twas Reuben but ah he was deathly and cold | Y |
| And fleeted away like the spell of a dream | C |
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| Twice thrice did he rise and as often she thought | Z |
| From the bank to embrace him but vain her endeavor | S |
| Then plunging beneath at a billow she caught | A2 |
| And sunk to repose on its bosom forever | S |
Thomas Moore
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