Dedicatory Poem To The Princess Alice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST U| Dead Princess living Power if that which lived | A |
| True life live on and if the fatal kiss | B |
| Born of true life and love divorce thee not | C |
| From earthly love and life if what we call | D |
| The spirit flash not all at once from out | E |
| This shadow into Substance then perhaps | F |
| The mellow'd murmur of the people's praise | G |
| From thine own State and all our breadth of realm | H |
| Where Love and Longing dress thy deeds in light | I |
| Ascends to thee and this March morn that sees | J |
| Thy Soldier brother's bridal orange bloom | K |
| Break thro' the yews and cypress of thy grave | L |
| And thine Imperial mother smile again | M |
| May send one ray to thee and who can tell | N |
| Thou England's England loving daughter thou | O |
| Dying so English thou wouldst have her flag | P |
| Borne on thy coffin where is he can swear | Q |
| But that some broken gleam from our poor earth | R |
| May touch thee while remembering thee I lay | S |
| At thy pale feet this ballad of the deeds | T |
| Of England and her banner in the East | U |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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