Madeline Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEEBE A FFCGFFGFCCDHFFHFCFFD A IJBJIBKKLLLMLMBBMMKK| I | A |
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| Thou art not steep'd in golden languors | B |
| No tranced summer calm is thine | C |
| Ever varying Madeline | D |
| Thro' light and shadow thou dost range | E |
| Sudden glances sweet and strange | E |
| Delicious spites and darling angers | B |
| And airy forms of flitting change | E |
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| II | A |
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| Smiling frowning evermore | F |
| Thou art perfect in love lore | F |
| Revealings deep and clear are thine | C |
| Of wealthy smiles but who may know | G |
| Whether smile or frown be fleeter | F |
| Whether smile or frown be sweeter | F |
| Who may know | G |
| Frowns perfect sweet along the brow | F |
| Light glooming over eyes divine | C |
| Like little clouds sun fringed are thine | C |
| Ever varying Madeline | D |
| Thy smile and frown are not aloof | H |
| From one another | F |
| Each to each is dearest brother | F |
| Hues of the silken sheeny woof | H |
| Momently shot into each other | F |
| All the mystery is thine | C |
| Smiling frowning evermore | F |
| Thou art perfect in love lore | F |
| Every varying Madeline | D |
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| III | A |
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| A subtle sudden flame | I |
| By veering passion fann'd | J |
| About thee breaks and dances | B |
| When I would kiss thy hand | J |
| The flush of anger'd shame | I |
| O'erflows thy calmer glances | B |
| And o'er black brows drops down | K |
| A sudden curved frown | K |
| But when I turn away | L |
| Thou willing me to stay | L |
| Wooest not nor vainly wranglest | L |
| But looking fixedly the while | M |
| All my bounding heart entanglest | L |
| In a golden nettled smile | M |
| Then in madness and in bliss | B |
| If my lips should dare to kiss | B |
| Thy taper fingers amorously | M |
| Again thou blushest angrily | M |
| And o'er black brows drops down | K |
| A sudden curved frown | K |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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