Merlin And The Gleam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECBFEFG AHIJKBKJLCMJJG ANOKJJJPQQQ DQRQQSQTUCVBKWG QCOXBYQCVCQBMBG DQBZRECMQQQQRG DRQQBQDRQBYQQYEBQBYY G DBQQQBQYBXQA2CB2C2D2 E2BEKQQBCCG D2QQQBCD2OD2D2CQGI | A |
O young Mariner | B |
You from the haven | C |
Under the sea cliff | D |
You that are watching | E |
The gray Magician | C |
With eyes of wonder | B |
I am Merlin | F |
And I am dying | E |
I am Merlin | F |
Who follow The Gleam | G |
- | |
II | A |
Mighty the Wizard | H |
Who found me at sunrise | I |
Sleeping and woke me | J |
And learn'd me Magic | K |
Great the Master | B |
And sweet the Magic | K |
When over the valley | J |
In early summers | L |
Over the mountain | C |
On human faces | M |
And all around me | J |
Moving to melody | J |
Floated The Gleam | G |
- | |
III | A |
Once at the croak of a Raven who crost it | N |
A barbarous people | O |
Blind to the magic | K |
And deaf to the melody | J |
Snarl'd at and cursed me | J |
A demon vext me | J |
The light retreated | P |
The landskip darken'd | Q |
The melody deaden'd | Q |
The Master whisper'd | Q |
'Follow The Gleam ' | - |
- | |
IV | D |
Then to the melody | Q |
Over a wilderness | R |
Gliding and glancing at | Q |
Elf of the woodland | Q |
Gnome of the cavern | S |
Griffin and Giant | Q |
And dancing of Fairies | T |
In desolate hollows | U |
And wraiths of the mountain | C |
And rolling of dragons | V |
By warble of water | B |
Or cataract music | K |
Of falling torrents | W |
Flitted The Gleam | G |
- | |
V | Q |
Down from the mountain | C |
And over the level | O |
And streaming and shining on | X |
Silent river | B |
Silvery willow | Y |
Pasture and plowland | Q |
Horses and oxen | C |
Innocent maidens | V |
Garrulous children | C |
Homestead and harvest | Q |
Reaper and gleaner | B |
And rough ruddy faces | M |
Of lowly labour | B |
Slided The Gleam | G |
- | |
VI | D |
Then with a melody | Q |
Stronger and statelier | B |
Led me at length | Z |
To the city and palace | R |
Of Arthur the king | E |
Touch'd at the golden | C |
Cross of the churches | M |
Flash'd on the Tournament | Q |
Flicker'd and bicker'd | Q |
From helmet to helmet | Q |
And last on the forehead | Q |
Of Arthur the blameless | R |
Rested The Gleam | G |
- | |
VII | D |
Clouds and darkness | R |
Closed upon Camelot | Q |
Arthur had vanish'd | Q |
I knew not whither | B |
The king who loved me | Q |
And cannot die | D |
For out of the darkness | R |
Silent and slowly | Q |
The Gleam that had waned to a wintry glimmer | B |
On icy fallow | Y |
And faded forest | Q |
Drew to the valley | Q |
Named of the shadow | Y |
And slowly brightening | E |
Out of the glimmer | B |
And slowly moving again to a melody | Q |
Yearningly tender | B |
Fell on the shadow | Y |
No longer a shadow | Y |
But clothed with The Gleam | G |
- | |
VIII | D |
And broader and brighter | B |
The Gleam flying onward | Q |
Wed to the melody | Q |
Sang thro' the world | Q |
And slower and fainter | B |
Old and weary | Q |
But eager to follow | Y |
I saw whenever | B |
In passing it glanced upon | X |
Hamlet or city | Q |
That under the Crosses | A2 |
The dead man's garden | C |
The mortal hillock | B2 |
Would break into blossom | C2 |
And so to the land's | D2 |
Last limit I came | E2 |
And can no longer | B |
But die rejoicing | E |
For thro' the Magic | K |
Of Him the Mighty | Q |
Who taught me in childhood | Q |
There on the border | B |
Of boundless Ocean | C |
And all but in Heaven | C |
Hovers The Gleam | G |
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IX | D2 |
Not of the sunlight | Q |
Not of the moonlight | Q |
Not of the starlight | Q |
O young Mariner | B |
Down to the haven | C |
Call your companions | D2 |
Launch your vessel | O |
And crowd your canvas | D2 |
And ere it vanishes | D2 |
Over the margin | C |
After it follow it | Q |
Follow The Gleam | G |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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