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 days | A |
| When love only love was the light of her ways | A |
| And soft as in moments of bliss long ago | B |
| It whispered her name from the garden below | B |
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| Alas sighed the maiden how fancy can cheat | C |
| The world once had lips that could whisper thus sweet | C |
| But cold now they slumber in yon fatal deep | D |
| Where oh that beside them this heart too could sleep | D |
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| She sunk on her pillow but no 'twas in vain | E |
| To chase the illusion that Voice came again | F |
| She flew to the casement but husht as the grave | G |
| In moonlight lay slumbering woodland and wave | G |
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| Oh sleep come and shield me in anguish she said | H |
| From that call of the buried that cry of the Dead | H |
| And sleep came around her but starting she woke | I |
| For still from the garden that spirit Voice spoke | I |
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| I come she exclaimed be thy home where it may | J |
| On earth or in Heaven that call I obey | J |
| Then forth thro' the moonlight with heart beating fast | K |
| And loud as a death watch the pale maiden past | K |
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| Still round her the scene all in loneliness shone | L |
| And still in the distance that Voice led her on | M |
| But whither she wandered by wave or by shore | N |
| None ever could tell for she came back no more | N |
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| No ne'er came she back but the watchman who stood | O |
| That night in the tower which o'ershadows the flood | P |
| Saw dimly 'tis said o'er the moonlighted spray | J |
| A youth on a steed bear the maiden away | J |
Thomas Moore
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