My Spectre Around Me Night And Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC A DDEE A FFGH IIJK KJ BBLL MMNN OODD PP J QQ J RRJ SSMM TT M| i | A |
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| My spectre around me night and day | B |
| Like a wild beast guards my way | B |
| My Emanation far within | C |
| Weeps incessantly for my sin | C |
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| ii | A |
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| A fathomless and boundless deep | D |
| There we wander there we weep | D |
| On the hungry craving wind | E |
| My Spectre follows thee behind | E |
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| iii | A |
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| He scents thy footsteps in the snow | F |
| Wheresoever thou dost go | F |
| Thro' the wintry hail and rain | G |
| When wilt thou return again | H |
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| iv | - |
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| Dost thou not in pride and scorn | I |
| Fill with tempests all my morn | I |
| And with jealousies and fears | J |
| Fill my pleasant nights with tears | K |
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| v | - |
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| Seven of my sweet loves thy knife | - |
| Has bereav d of their life | - |
| Their marble tombs I built with tears | K |
| And with cold and shuddering fears | J |
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| vi | - |
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| Seven more loves weep night and day | B |
| Round the tombs where my loves lay | B |
| And seven more loves attend each night | L |
| Around my couch with torches bright | L |
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| vii | - |
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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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| viii | - |
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| When wilt thou return and view | - |
| My loves and them to life renew | - |
| When wilt thou return and live | - |
| When wilt thou pity as I forgive ' | - |
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| a | - |
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| O'er my sins thou sit and moan | O |
| Hast thou no sins of thy own | O |
| O'er my sins thou sit and weep | D |
| And lull thy own sins fast asleep | D |
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| b | - |
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| What transgressions I commit | P |
| Are for thy transgressions fit | P |
| They thy harlots thou their slave | - |
| And my bed becomes their grave | - |
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| ix | J |
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| Never never I return | Q |
| Still for victory I burn | Q |
| Living thee alone I'll have | - |
| And when dead I'll be thy grave | - |
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| x | J |
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| Thro' the Heaven and Earth and Hell | R |
| Thou shalt never never quell | R |
| I will fly and thou pursue | J |
| Night and morn the flight renew ' | - |
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| c | - |
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| Poor pale pitiable form | S |
| That I follow in a storm | S |
| Iron tears and groans of lead | M |
| Bind around my aching head | M |
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| xi | - |
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| Till I turn from Female love | - |
| And root up the Infernal Grove | - |
| I shall never worthy be | - |
| To step into Eternity | - |
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| xii | - |
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| And to end thy cruel mocks | - |
| Annihilate thee on the rocks | - |
| And another form create | T |
| To be subservient to my fate | T |
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| xiii | - |
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| Let us agree to give up love | - |
| And root up the Infernal Grove | - |
| Then shall we return and see | - |
| The worlds of happy Eternity | - |
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| xiv | - |
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| And throughout all Eternity | - |
| I forgive you you forgive me | - |
| As our dear Redeemer said | M |
| This the Wine and this the Bread ' | - |
William Blake
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