Isabel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBBDBBBBB BBBBBBEEFBGBHHII JKLBMBBLMMBBB| Eyes not down dropt nor over bright but fed | A |
| With the clear pointed flame of chastity | B |
| Clear without heat undying tended by | C |
| Pure vestal thoughts in the translucent fane | D |
| Of her still spirit locks not wide dispread | B |
| Madonna wise on either side her head | B |
| Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign | D |
| The summer calm of golden charity | B |
| Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood | B |
| Revered Isabel the crown and head | B |
| The stately flower of female fortitude | B |
| Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead | B |
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| The intuitive decision of a bright | B |
| And thorough edged intellect to part | B |
| Error from crime a prudence to withhold | B |
| The laws of marriage character'd in gold | B |
| Upon the blanched tablets of her heart | B |
| A love still burning upward giving light | B |
| To read those laws an accent very low | E |
| In blandishment but a most silver flow | E |
| Of subtle paced counsel in distress | F |
| Right to the heart and brain tho' undescried | B |
| Winning its way with extreme gentleness | G |
| Thro' all the outworks of suspicious pride | B |
| A courage to endure and to obey | H |
| A hate of gossip parlance and of sway | H |
| Crown'd Isabel thro' all her placid life | I |
| The queen of marriage a most perfect wife | I |
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| The mellow'd reflex of a winter moon | J |
| A clear stream flowing with a muddy one | K |
| Till in its onward current it absorbs | L |
| With swifter movement and in purer light | B |
| The vexed eddies of its wayward brother | M |
| A leaning and upbearing parasite | B |
| Clothing the stem which else had fallen quite | B |
| With cluster'd flower bells and ambrosial orbs | L |
| Of rich fruit bunches leaning on each other | M |
| Shadow forth thee the world hath not another | M |
| Tho' all her fairest forms are types of thee | B |
| And thou of God in thy great charity | B |
| Of such a finish'd chasten'd purity | B |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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