A Welcome To Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess Of Edinburgh. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABCDDCB EBFFBBGHIGB EJKKJBLDDLD JMNNMDOPQOD JDRRDDSTTSD| The son of him with whom we strove for power | A |
| Whose will is lord thro' all his world domain | B |
| Who made the serf a man and burst his chain | B |
| Has given our prince his own imperial Flower | A |
| Alexandrovna | B |
| And welcome Russian flower a people's pride | C |
| To Britain when her flowers begin to blow | D |
| From love to love from home to home you go | D |
| From mother unto mother stately bride | C |
| Marie Alexandrovna | B |
| - | |
| II | E |
| The golden news along the steppes is blown | B |
| And at thy name the Tartar tents are stirr'd | F |
| Elburz and all the Caucasus have heard | F |
| And all the sultry palms of India known | B |
| Alexandrovna | B |
| The voices of our universal sea | G |
| On capes of Afric as on cliffs of Kent | H |
| The Maoris and that Isle of Continent | I |
| And loyal pines of Canada mumur thee | G |
| Marie Alexandrovna | B |
| - | |
| III | E |
| Fair empires branching both in lusty life | J |
| Yet Harold's England fell to Norman swords | K |
| Yet thine own land has bow'd to Tartar hordes | K |
| Since English Harold gave its throne a wife | J |
| Alexandrovna | B |
| For thrones and peoples are as waifs that swing | L |
| And float or fall in endless ebb and flow | D |
| But who love best have best the grace to know | D |
| That Love by right divine is deathless king | L |
| Marie Alexandrovna | D |
| - | |
| IV | J |
| And Love has led thee to the stranger land | M |
| Where men are bold and strongly say their say | N |
| See empire upon empire smiles to day | N |
| As thou with thy young lover hand in hand | M |
| Alexandrovna | D |
| So now thy fuller life is in the west | O |
| Whose hand at home was gracious to thy poor | P |
| Thy name was blest within the narrow door | Q |
| Here also Marie shall thy name be blest | O |
| Marie Alexandrovna | D |
| - | |
| V | J |
| Shall fears and jealous hatreds flame again | D |
| Or at thy coming Princess everywhere | R |
| The blue heaven break and some diviner air | R |
| Breathe thro' the world and change the hearts of men | D |
| Alexandrovna | D |
| But hearts that change not love that cannot cease | S |
| And peace be yours the peace of soul in soul | T |
| And howsoever this wild world may roll | T |
| Between your peoples truth and manful peace | S |
| Alfred Alexandrovna | D |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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