A Character Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEA FGHGHF IJAJAK LMNOPL QRSRSQ| With a half glance upon the sky | A |
| At night he said 'The wanderings | B |
| Of this most intricate Universe | C |
| Teach me the nothingness of things ' | D |
| Yet could not all creation pierce | E |
| Beyond the bottom of his eye | A |
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| He spake of beauty that the dull | F |
| Saw no divinity in grass | G |
| Life in dead stones or spirit in air | H |
| Then looking as 'twere in a glass | G |
| He smooth'd his chin and sleek'd his hair | H |
| And said the earth was beautiful | F |
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| He spake of virtue not the gods | I |
| More purely when they wish to charm | J |
| Pallas and Juno sitting by | A |
| And with a sweeping of the arm | J |
| And a lack lustre dead blue eye | A |
| Devolved his rounded periods | K |
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| Most delicately hour by hour | L |
| He canvass'd human mysteries | M |
| And trod on silk as if the winds | N |
| Blew his own praises in his eyes | O |
| And stood aloof from other minds | P |
| In impotence of fancied power | L |
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| With lips depress'd as he were meek | Q |
| Himself unto himself he sold | R |
| Upon himself himself did feed | S |
| Quiet dispassionate and cold | R |
| And other than his form of creed | S |
| With chisell'd features clear and sleek | Q |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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