Broken Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HHIJ KKJI AALL MMNN OOPQ RRCC SSTT UUVT WWOO XXMM YZA2A2 B2B2C2C2 YZA2A2 A2A2MMMY Spectre around me night and day | A |
Like a wild beast guards my way | A |
My Emanation far within | B |
Weeps incessantly for my sin | B |
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A fathomless and boundless deep | C |
There we wander there we weep | C |
On the hungry craving wind | D |
My Spectre follows thee behind | D |
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He scents thy footsteps in the snow | E |
Wheresoever thou dost go | E |
Thro the wintry hail and rain | F |
When wilt thou return again | G |
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Dost thou not in pride and scorn | H |
Fill with tempests all my morn | H |
And with jealousies and fears | I |
Fill my pleasant nights with tears | J |
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Seven of my sweet loves thy knife | K |
Has bereav d of their life | K |
Their marble tombs I built with tears | J |
And with cold and shuddering fears | I |
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Seven more loves weep night and day | A |
Round the tombs where my loves lay | A |
And seven more loves attend each night | L |
Around my couch with torches bright | L |
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And seven more loves in my bed | M |
Crown with wine my mournful head | M |
Pitying and forgiving all | N |
Thy transgressions great and small | N |
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When wilt thou return and view | O |
My loves and them to life renew | O |
When wilt thou return and live | P |
When wilt thou pity as I forgive | Q |
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O er my sins thou sit and moan | R |
Hast thou no sins of thy own | R |
O er my sins thou sit and weep | C |
And lull thy own sins fast asleep | C |
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What transgressions I commit | S |
Are for thy transgressions fit | S |
They thy harlots thou their slave | T |
And my bed becomes their grave | T |
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Never never I return | U |
Still for victory I burn | U |
Living thee alone I ll have | V |
And when dead I ll be thy grave | T |
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Thro the Heaven and Earth and Hell | W |
Thou shalt never quell | W |
I will fly and thou pursue | O |
Night and morn the flight renew | O |
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Poor pale pitiable form | X |
That I follow in a storm | X |
Iron tears and groans of lead | M |
Bind around my aching head | M |
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Till I turn from Female love | Y |
And root up the Infernal Grove | Z |
I shall never worthy be | A2 |
To step into Eternity | A2 |
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And to end thy cruel mocks | B2 |
Annihilate thee on the rocks | B2 |
And another form create | C2 |
To be subservient to my fate | C2 |
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Let us agree to give up love | Y |
And root up the Infernal Grove | Z |
Then shall we return and see | A2 |
The worlds of happy Eternity | A2 |
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And throughout all Eternity | A2 |
I forgive you you forgive me | A2 |
As our dear Redeemer said | M |
This the Wine and this the Bread | M |
William Blake
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