The Lady Of Shalott (1832) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The Lady Of Shalott (1832) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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PART I	A
On either side the river lie	A
Long fields of barley and of rye	A
That clothe the wold and meet the sky	A
And thro' the field the road runs by	A
To many tower'd Camelot	B
The yellow leaved waterlily	A
The green sheathed daffodilly	A
Tremble in the water chilly	A
Round about Shalott	B
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Willows whiten aspens shiver	C
The sunbeam showers break and quiver	C
In the stream that runneth ever	C
By the island in the river	C
Flowing down to Camelot	B
Four gray walls and four gray towers	D
Overlook a space of flowers	D
And the silent isle imbowers	D
The Lady of Shalott	B
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Underneath the bearded barley	A
The reaper reaping late and early	A
Hears her ever chanting cheerly	A
Like an angel singing clearly	A
O'er the stream of Camelot	B
Piling the sheaves in furrows airy	A
Beneath the moon the reaper weary	A
Listening whispers ' 'Tis the fairy	A
Lady of Shalott '	-
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The little isle is all inrail'd	B
With a rose fence and overtrail'd	B
With roses by the marge unhail'd	B
The shallop flitteth silken sail'd	B
Skimming down to Camelot	B
A pearl garland winds her head	B
She leaneth on a velvet bed	B
Full royally apparelled	B
The Lady of Shalott	B
PART II	A
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No time hath she to sport and play	A
A charmed web she weaves alway	E
A curse is on her if she stay	A
Her weaving either night or day	A
To look down to Camelot	B
She knows not what the curse may be	A
Therefore she weaveth steadily	A
Therefore no other care hath she	A
The Lady of Shalott	B
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She lives with little joy or fear	F
Over the water running near	F
The sheepbell tinkles in her ear	G
Before her hangs a mirror clear	F
Reflecting tower'd Camelot	B
And as the mazy web she whirls	D
She sees the surly village churls	D
And the red cloaks of market girls	D
Pass onward from Shalott	B
	-
Sometimes a troop of damsels glad	B
An abbot on an ambling pad	B
Sometimes a curly shepherd lad	B
Or long hair'd page in crimson clad	B
Goes by to tower'd Camelot	B
And sometimes thro' the mirror blue	A
The knights come riding two and two	A
She hath no loyal knight and true	A
The Lady of Shalott	B
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But in her web she still delights	D
To weave the mirror's magic sights	D
For often thro' the silent nights	D
A funeral with plumes and lights	D
And music came from Camelot	B
Or when the moon was overhead	B
Came two young lovers lately wed	B
I am half sick of shadows ' said	B
The Lady of Shalott PART III	A
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A bow shot from her bower eaves	D
He rode between the barley sheaves	D
The sun came dazzling thro' the leaves	D
And flam'd upon the brazen greaves	D
Of bold Sir Lancelot	B
A red cross knight for ever kneel'd	B
To a lady in his shield	B
That sparkled on the yellow field	B
Beside remote Shalott	B
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The gemmy bridle glitter'd free	A
Like to some branch of stars we see	A
Hung in the golden Galaxy	A
The bridle bells rang merrily	A
As he rode down from Camelot	B
And from his blazon'd baldric slung	H
A mighty silver bugle hung	H
And as he rode his arm our rung	H
Beside remote Shalott	B
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All in the blue unclouded weather	C
Thick jewell'd shone the saddle leather	C
The helmet and the helmet feather	C
Burn'd like one burning flame together	C
As he rode down from Camelot	B
As often thro' the purple night	B
Below the starry clusters bright	B
Some bearded meteor trailing light	B
Moves over green Shalott	B
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	-
His broad clear brow in sunlight glow'd	B
On burnish'd hooves his war horse trode	B
From underneath his helmet flow'd	B
His coal black curls as on he rode	B
As he rode down from Camelot	B
From the bank and from the river	C
He flash'd into the crystal mirror	C
'Tirra lirra tirra lirra '	-
Sang Sir Lancelot	B
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She left the web she left the loom	I
She made three paces thro' the room	I
She saw the water flower bloom	I
She saw the helmet and the plume	I
She look'd down to Camelot	B
Out flew the web and floated wide	B
The mirror crack'd from side to side	B
'The curse is come upon me ' cried	B
The Lady of Shalott PART IV	J
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	-
In the stormy east wind straining	K
The pale yellow woods were waning	K
The broad stream in his banks complaining	K
Heavily the low sky raining	K
Over tower'd Camelot	B
Outside the isle a shallow boat	B
Beneath a willow lay afloat	B
Below the carven stern she wrote	B
The Lady of Shalott	B
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	-
A cloudwhite crown of pearl she dight	B
All raimented in snowy white	B
That loosely flew her zone in sight	B
Clasp'd with one blinding diamond bright	B
Her wide eyes fix'd on Camelot	B
Though the squally east wind keenly	A
Blew with folded arms serenely	A
By the water stood the queenly	A
Lady of Shalott	B
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With a steady stony glance	D
Like some bold seer in a trance	D
Beholding all his own mischance	D
Mute with a glassy countenance	D
She look'd down to Camelot	B
It was the closing of the day	B
She loos'd the chain and down she lay	B
The broad stream bore her far away	B
The Lady of Shalott	B
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	-
As when to sailors while they roam	L
By creeks and outfalls far from home	L
Rising and dropping with the foam	L
From dying swans wild warblings come	M
Blown shoreward so to Camelot	B
Still as the boathead wound along	N
The willowy hills and fields among	H
They heard her chanting her deathsong	H
The Lady of Shalott	B
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	-
A longdrawn carol mournful holy	A
She chanted loudly chanted lowly	A
Till her eyes were darken'd wholly	A
And her smooth face sharpen'd slowly	A
Turn'd to tower'd Camelot	B
For ere she reach'd upon the tide	B
The first house by the water side	B
Singing in her song she died	B
The Lady of Shalott	B
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Under tower and balcony	A
By garden wall and gallery	A
A pale pale corpse she floated by	A
Deadcold between the houses high	A
Dead into tower'd Camelot	B
Knight and burgher lord and dame	O
To the planked wharfage came	O
Below the stern they read her name	O
The Lady of Shalott	B
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They cross'd themselves their stars they blest	B
Knight minstrel abbot squire and guest	B
There lay a parchment on her breast	B
That puzzled more than all the rest	B
The wellfed wits at Camelot	B
'The web was woven curiously	A
The charm is broken utterly	A
Draw near and fear not this is I	A
The Lady of Shalott '	-