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William And Helen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
From heavy dreams fair Helen rose	B
And eyed the dawning red	C
Alas my love thou tarriest long	D
O art thou false or dead	C
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II	A
With gallant Fred'rick's princely power	E
He sought the bold Crusade	F
But not a word from Judah's wars	G
Told Helen how he sped	C
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III	A
With Paynim and with Saracen	H
At length a truce was made	F
And every knight return'd to dry	A
The tears his love had shed	C
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IV	I
Our gallant host was homeward bound	J
With many a song of joy	K
Green waved the laurel in each plume	L
The badge of victory	M
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V	M
And old and young and sire and son	H
To meet them crowd the way	N
With shouts and mirth and melody	M
The debt of love to pay	N
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VI	I
Full many a maid her true love met	O
And sobb'd in his embrace	P
And flutt'ring joy in tears and smiles	Q
Array'd full many a face	P
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VII	I
Nor joy nor smile for Helen sad	R
She sought the host in vain	H
For none could tell her William's fate	S
In faithless or if slain	H
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VIII	I
The martial band is past and gone	H
She rends her raven hair	T
And in distraction's bitter mood	U
She weeps with wild despair	T
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IX	P
O rise my child her mother said	C
Nor sorrow thus in vain	H
A perjured lover's fleeting heart	V
No tears recall again	H
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X	P
O mother what is gone is gone	H
What's lost for ever lorn	H
Death death alone can comfort me	M
O had I ne'er been born	H
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XI	M
O break my heart O break at once	P
Drink my life blood Despair	T
No joy remains on earth for me	M
For me in Heaven no share	T
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XII	P
O enter not in judgement Lord	W
The pious mother prays	P
Impute not guilt to thy frail child	X
She knows not what she says	P
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XIII	P
O say thy pater noster child	X
O turn to God and grace	P
His will that turn'd thy bliss to bale	Y
Can change thy bale to bliss	P
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XIV	I
O mother mother what is bliss	P
O mother what is bale	Y
My William's love was heaven on earth	Z
Without it earth is hell	A2
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XV	I
Why should I pray to ruthless Heaven	H
Since my loved William's slain	H
I only pray'd for William's sake	B2
And all my prayers were vain	H
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XVI	I
O take the sacrament my child	X
And check these tears that flow	C2
By resignation's humble prayer	T
O hallow'd be thy woe	C2
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XVII	I
No sacrament can quench this fire	E
Or slake this scorching pain	H
No sacrament can bid the dead	C
Arise and live again	H
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XVIII	I
O break my heart O break at once	P
Be thou my God Despair	T
Heaven's heaviest blow has fallen on me	M
And vain each fruitless prayer	T
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XIX	P
O enter not in judgement Lord	W
With thy frail child of clay	N
She knows not what her tongue has spoke	D2
Impute it not I pray	N
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XX	P
Forbear my child this desperate woe	C2
And turn to God and grace	P
Well can devotion's heavenly glow	C2
Convert thy bale to bliss	P
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XXI	P
O mother mother what is bliss	P
O mother what is bale	Y
Without my William what were heaven	H
Or with him what were hell	A2
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XXII	P
Wild she arraigns the eternal doom	L
Upbraids each sacred power	E
Till spent she sought her silent room	L
All in the lonely tower	E
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XXIII	P
She beat her breast she wrung her hands	P
Till sun and day were o'er	E
And through the glimmering lattice shone	H
The twinkling of the star	E2
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XXIV	I
Then crash the heavy drawbridge fell	A2
That o'er the moat was hung	F2
And clatter clatter on its boards	P
The hoof of courser rung	F2
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XXV	I
The clank of echoing steel was heard	G2
As off the rider bounded	H2
And slowly on the winding stair	T
A heavy footstep sounded	H2
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XXVI	I
And hark and hark a knock Tap tap	I2
A rustling stifled noise	P
Door latch and tinkling staples ring	J2
At length a whispering voice	P
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XXVII	I
Awake awake arise my love	I
How Helen dost thou fare	T
Wak'st thou or sleep'st laugh'st thou or weep'st	K2
Hast thought on me my fair	T
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XXVIII	I
My love my love so late by night	L2
I waked I wept for thee	M
Much have I borne since dawn of morn	H
Where William couldst thou be	M
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XXIX	P
We saddle late from Hungary	M
I rode since darkness fell	A2
And to its bourne we both return	H
Before the matin bell	A2
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XXX	P
O rest this night within my arms	P
And warm thee in their fold	M2
Chill howls through hawthorn bush the wind	N2
My love is deadly cold	M2
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XXXI	P
Let the wind howl through hawthorn bush	O2
This night we must away	N
The steed is wight the spur is bright	L2
I cannot stay till day	N
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XXXII	P
Busk busk and boune Thou mount'st behind	N2
Upon my black barb steed	P2
O'er stock and stile a hundred miles	P
We haste to bridal bed	C
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XXXIII	P
To night to night a hundred miles	P
O dearest William stay	N
The bell strikes twelve dark dismal hour	E
O wait my love till day	N
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XXXIV	I
Look here look here the moon shines clear	Q2
Full fast I ween we ride	R2
Mount and away for ere the day	N
We reach our bridal bed	C
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XXXV	I
The black barb snorts the bridle rings	P
Haste busk and boune and seat thee	M
The feast is made the chamber spread	C
The bridal guests await thee	M
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XXXVI	I
Strong love prevail'd She busks she bounes	P
She mounts barb behind	N2
And round her darling William's waist	S2
Her lily arms she twined	N2
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XXXVII	I
And hurry hurry off they rode	T2
As fast as fast might be	M
Spurn'd from the courser's thundering heels	P
The flashing pebbles flee	M
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XXXVIII	I
And on the right and on the left	U2
Ere they could snatch a view	I
Fast fast each mountain mead and plain	H
And cot and castle flew	I
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XXXIX	P
Sit fast dost fear The moon shines clear	Q2
Fleet goes my barb keep hold	M2
Fear'st thou O no she faintly said	C
But why so stern and cold	M2
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XL	I
What yonder rings what yonder sings	P
Why shrieks the owlet grey	N
'Tis death bells' clang 'tis funeral song	D
The body to the clay	N
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XLI	N
With song and clang at morrow's dawn	H
Ye may inter the dead	C
To night I ride with my young bride	R2
To deck our bridal bed	C
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XLII	N
Come with thy choir thou coffin'd guest	V2
To swell our nuptial song	D
Come priest to bless our marriage feast	W2
Come all come all along	D
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XLIII	N
Ceased clang and song down sunk the bier	X2
The shrouded corpse arose	P
And hurry hurry all the train	H
The thundering steed pursues	P
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XLIV	I
And forward forward on they go	C2
High snorts the straining steed	P2
Thick pants the rider's labouring breath	Y2
As headlong on they speed	P2
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XLV	I
O William why this savage haste	S2
And where thy bridal bed	C
'Tis distant far low damp and chill	N
And narrow trustless maid	F
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XLVI	I
No room for me Enough for both	Z2
Speed speed my barb thy course	P
O'er thundering bridge through boiling surge	A3
He drove the furious horse	P
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XLVII	I
Tramp tramp along the land they rode	T2
Splash splash along the sea	P
The scourge is wight the spur is bright	L2
The flashing pebbles flee	P
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XLVIII	I
Fled past on right and left how fast	B3
Each forest grove and bower	E
On right and left fled past how fast	B3
Each city town and tower	E
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XLIX	P
Dost fear dost fear The moon shines clear	Q2
Dost fear to ride with me	P
Hurrah hurrah the dead can ride	R2
O William let them be	P
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L	N
See there see there What yonder swings	P
And creaks 'mid whistling rain	H
Gibbet and steel th' accursed wheel	N
A murderer in his chain	H
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LI	P
Hollo thou felon follow here	X2
To bridal bed we ride	R2
And thou shalt prance a fetter dance	P
Before me and my bride	R2
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LII	P
And hurry hurry clash clash clash	C3
The wasted form descends	P
And fleet as wind through hazel bush	O2
The wild career attends	P
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LIII	P
Tramp tramp along the land they rode	T2
Splash splash along the sea	P
The scourge is red the spur drops blood	H2
The flashing pebbles flee	P
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LIV	I
How fled what moonshine faintly show'd	T2
How fled what darkness hid	D3
How fled the earth beneath their feet	K2
The heaven above their head	C
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LV	I
Dost fear dost fear The moon shines clear	Q2
And well the dead can ride	R2
Does faithful Helen fear for them	E3
O leave in peace the dead	C
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LVI	I
Barb Barb methinks I hear the cock	F3
The sand will soon be run	H
Barb Barb I smell the morning air	T
The race is wellnigh done	H
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LVII	I
Tramp tramp along the land they rode	T2
Splash splash along the sea	P
The scourge is red the spur drops blood	H2
The flashing pebbles flee	P
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LVIII	I
Hurrah hurrah well ride the dead	C
The bride the bridge is come	G3
And soon we reach the bridal bed	C
For Helen here's my home	H3
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LIX	P
Reluctant on its rusty hinge	I3
Revolved an iron door	J3
And by the pale moon's setting beam	K3
Were seen a church and tower	E
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LX	P
With many a shriek and cry whiz round	J
The birds of midnight scared	L3
And rustling like autumnal leaves	P
Unhallow'd ghosts were heard	G2
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LXI	P
O'er many a tomb and tombstones pale	P
He spurr'd the fiery horse	P
Till sudden at an open grave	I
He check'd the wondrous course	P
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LXII	P
The falling gauntlet quits the rein	H
Down drops the casque of steel	P
The cuirass leaves his shrinking side	R2
The spur his gory heel	P
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LXIII	P
The eyes desert the naked skull	P
The mould'ring flesh the bone	H
Till Helen's lily arms entwine	H
A ghastly skeleton	H
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LXIV	I
The furious barb snorts fire and foam	H3
And with a fearful bound	J
Dissolves at once in empty air	T
And leaves her on the ground	J
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LXV	I
Half seen by fits by fits half heard	G2
Pale spectres flit along	D
Wheel round the maid in dismal dance	P
And howl the funeral song	D
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LXVI	I
E'en when the heart's with anguish cleft	U2
Revere the doom of Heaven	H
Her soul is from her body reft	U2
Her spirit be forgiven	H