The Death Of Oenone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFAGHIJKLAMNAFA AOPIAAAAAQRSTAUVIWIM XIYAZA2B2A2C2AD2EAE2 XVXF2AHG2DH2AI2VAZJ2 K2L2D2AAM2AN2O2IP2O2 Q2AR2P2JAS2ADLT2D2AA 2C2AU2A2AC2V2AW2H2B2OEnone sat within the cave from out | A |
Whose ivy matted mouth she used to gaze | B |
Down at the Troad but the goodly view | C |
Was now one blank and all the serpent vines | D |
Which on the touch of heavenly feet had risen | E |
And gliding thro' the branches over bower'd | A |
The naked Three were wither'd long ago | F |
And thro' the sunless winter morning mist | A |
In silence wept upon the flowerless earth | G |
And while she stared at those dead cords that ran | H |
Dark thro' the mist and linking tree to tree | I |
But once were gayer than a dawning sky | J |
With many a pendent bell and fragrant star | K |
Her Past became her Present and she saw | L |
Him climbing toward her with the golden fruit | A |
Him happy to be chosen judge of Gods | M |
Her husband in the flush of youth and dawn | N |
Paris himself as beauteous as a God | A |
Anon from out the long ravine below | F |
She heard a wailing cry that seem'd at first | A |
Thin as the bat like shrillings of the Dead | A |
When driven to Hades but in coming near | O |
Across the downward thunder of the brook | P |
Sounded 'OEnone' and on a sudden he | I |
Paris no longer beauteous as a God | A |
Struck by a poison'd arrow in the fight | A |
Lame crooked reeling livid thro' the mist | A |
Rose like the wraith of his dead self and moan'd | A |
'OEnone my OEnone while we dwelt | A |
Together in this valley happy then | Q |
Too happy had I died within thine arms | R |
Before the feud of Gods had marr'd our peace | S |
And sunder'd each from each I am dying now | T |
Pierced by a poison'd dart Save me Thou knowest | A |
Taught by some God whatever herb or balm | U |
May clear the blood from poison and thy fame | V |
Is blown thro' all the Troad and to thee | I |
The shepherd brings his adder bitten lamb | W |
The wounded warrior climbs from Troy to thee | I |
My life and death are in thy hand The Gods | M |
Avenge on stony hearts a fruitless prayer | X |
For pity Let me owe my life to thee | I |
I wrought thee bitter wrong but thou forgive | Y |
Forget it Man is but the slave of Fate | A |
OEnone by thy love which once was mine | Z |
Help heal me I am poison'd to the heart ' | A2 |
'And I to mine' she said ' Adulterer | B2 |
Go back to thine adulteress and die ' | A2 |
He groan'd he turn'd and in the mist at once | C2 |
Became a shadow sank and disappear'd | A |
But ere the mountain rolls into the plain | D2 |
Fell headlong dead and of the shepherds one | E |
Their oldest and the same who first had found | A |
Paris a naked babe among the woods | E2 |
Of Ida following lighted on him there | X |
And shouted and the shepherds heard and came | V |
One raised the Prince one sleek'd the squalid hair | X |
One kiss'd his hand another closed his eyes | F2 |
And then remembering the gay playmate rear'd | A |
Among them and forgetful of the man | H |
Whose crime had half unpeopled Ilion these | G2 |
All that day long labour'd hewing the pines | D |
And built their shepherd prince a funeral pile | H2 |
And while the star of eve was drawing light | A |
From the dead sun kindled the pyre and all | I2 |
Stood round it hush'd or calling on his name | V |
But when the white fog vanish'd like a ghost | A |
Before the day and every topmost pine | Z |
Spired into bluest heaven still in her cave | J2 |
Amazed and ever seeming stared upon | K2 |
By ghastlier than the Gorgon head a face | L2 |
His face deform'd by lurid blotch and blain | D2 |
There like a creature frozen to the heart | A |
Beyond all hope of warmth OEnone sat | A |
Not moving till in front of that ravine | M2 |
Which drowsed in gloom self darken'd from the west | A |
The sunset blazed along the wall of Troy | N2 |
Then her head sank she slept and thro' her dream | O2 |
A ghostly murmur floated 'Come to me | I |
OEnone I can wrong thee now no more | P2 |
OEnone my OEnone ' and the dream | O2 |
Wail'd in her when she woke beneath the stars | Q2 |
What star eould burn so low not Ilion yet | A |
What light was there She rose and slowly down | R2 |
By the long torrent's ever deepen'd roar | P2 |
Paced following as in trance the silent cry | J |
She waked a bird of prey that scream'd and past | A |
She roused a snake that hissing writhed away | S2 |
A panther sprang across her path she heard | A |
The shriek of some lost life among the pines | D |
But when she gain'd the broader vale and saw | L |
The ring of faces redden'd by the flames | T2 |
Enfolding that dark body which had lain | D2 |
Of old in her embrace paused and then ask'd | A |
Falteringly 'Who lies on yonder pyre ' | A2 |
But every man was mute for reverence | C2 |
Then moving quickly forward till the heat | A |
Smote on her brow she lifted up a voice | U2 |
Of shrill command 'Who burns upon the pyre ' | A2 |
Whereon their oldest and their boldest said | A |
'He whom thou wouldst not heal ' and all at once | C2 |
The morning light of happy marriage broke | V2 |
Thro' all the clouded years of widowhood | A |
And muffling up her comely head and crying | W2 |
'Husband ' she leapt upon the funeral pile | H2 |
And mixt herself with him and past in fire | B2 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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