Margaret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDEECFGHGHIIJKLL JK AMNNMKOKPKK ABQBQRBBBR NBBBBQSQSQTTTQ NBBIIBNUVNUVWQWQI | A |
O sweet pale Margaret | B |
O rare pale Margaret | B |
What lit your eyes with tearful power | C |
Like moonlight on a falling shower | C |
Who lent you love your mortal dower | D |
Of pensive thought and aspect pale | E |
Your melancholy sweet and frail | E |
As perfume of the cuckoo flower | C |
From the westward winding flood | F |
From the evening lighted wood | G |
From all things outward you have won | H |
A tearful grace as tho' you stood | G |
Between the rainbow and the sun | H |
The very smile before you speak | I |
That dimples your transparent cheek | I |
Encircles all the heart and feedeth | J |
The senses with a still delight | K |
Of dainty sorrow without sound | L |
Like the tender amber round | L |
Which the moon about her spreadeth | J |
Moving thro' a fleecy night | K |
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II | A |
You love remaining peacefully | M |
To hear the murmur of the strife | N |
But enter not the toil of life | N |
Your spirit is the calmed sea | M |
Laid by the tumult of the fight | K |
You are the evening star alway | O |
Remaining betwixt dark and bright | K |
Lull'd echoes of laborious day | P |
Come to you gleams of mellow light | K |
Float by you on the verge of night | K |
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III | A |
What can it matter Margaret | B |
What songs below the waning stars | Q |
The lion heart Plantagenet | B |
Sang looking thro' his prison bars | Q |
Exquisite Margaret who can tell | R |
The last wild thought of Chatelet | B |
Just ere the falling axe did part | B |
The burning brain from the true heart | B |
Even in her sight he loved so well | R |
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IV | N |
A fairy shield your Genius made | B |
And gave you on your natal day | B |
Your sorrow only sorrow's shade | B |
Keeps real sorrow far away | B |
You move not in such solitudes | Q |
You are not less divine | S |
But more human in your moods | Q |
Than your twin sister Adeline | S |
Your hair is darker and your eyes | Q |
Touch'd with a somewhat darker hue | T |
And less a rially blue | T |
But ever trembling thro' the dew | T |
Of dainty woeful sympathies | Q |
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V | N |
O sweet pale Margaret | B |
O rare pale Margaret | B |
Come down come down and hear me speak | I |
Tie up the ringlets on your cheek | I |
The sun is just about to set | B |
The arching lines are tall and shady | N |
And faint rainy lights are seen | U |
Moving in the leavy beech | V |
Rise from the feast of sorrow lady | N |
Where all day long you sit between | U |
Joy and woe and whisper each | V |
Or only look across the lawn | W |
Look out below your bower eaves | Q |
Look down and let your blue eyes dawn | W |
Upon me thro' the jasmine leaves | Q |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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