Poet Thomas Moore

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The Voice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHII JJKK LMNN OPJJ

It came o'er her sleep like a voice of those daysA
When love only love was the light of her waysA
And soft as in moments of bliss long agoB
It whispered her name from the garden belowB
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Alas sighed the maiden how fancy can cheatC
The world once had lips that could whisper thus sweetC
But cold now they slumber in yon fatal deepD
Where oh that beside them this heart too could sleepD
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She sunk on her pillow but no 'twas in vainE
To chase the illusion that Voice came againF
She flew to the casement but husht as the graveG
In moonlight lay slumbering woodland and waveG
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Oh sleep come and shield me in anguish she saidH
From that call of the buried that cry of the DeadH
And sleep came around her but starting she wokeI
For still from the garden that spirit Voice spokeI
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I come she exclaimed be thy home where it mayJ
On earth or in Heaven that call I obeyJ
Then forth thro' the moonlight with heart beating fastK
And loud as a death watch the pale maiden pastK
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Still round her the scene all in loneliness shoneL
And still in the distance that Voice led her onM
But whither she wandered by wave or by shoreN
None ever could tell for she came back no moreN
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No ne'er came she back but the watchman who stoodO
That night in the tower which o'ershadows the floodP
Saw dimly 'tis said o'er the moonlighted sprayJ
A youth on a steed bear the maiden awayJ

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