The Princess: A Medley: Come Down, O Maid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQHRS TUVWXYZA2B2C2D2| Come down O maid from yonder mountain height | A |
| What pleasure lives in height the shepherd sang | B |
| In height and cold the splendour of the hills | C |
| But cease to move so near the Heavens and cease | D |
| To glide a sunbeam by the blasted Pine | E |
| To sit a star upon the sparkling spire | F |
| And come for Love is of the valley come | G |
| For Love is of the valley come thou down | H |
| And find him by the happy threshold he | I |
| Or hand in hand with Plenty in the maize | J |
| Or red with spirted purple of the vats | K |
| Or foxlike in the vine nor cares to walk | L |
| With Death and Morning on the silver horns | M |
| Nor wilt thou snare him in the white ravine | N |
| Nor find him dropt upon the firths of ice | O |
| That huddling slant in furrow cloven falls | P |
| To roll the torrent out of dusky doors | Q |
| But follow let the torrent dance thee down | H |
| To find him in the valley let the wild | R |
| Lean headed Eagles yelp alone and leave | S |
| The monstrous ledges there to slope and spill | T |
| Their thousand wreaths of dangling water smoke | U |
| That like a broken purpose waste in air | V |
| So waste not thou but come for all the vales | W |
| Await thee azure pillars of the hearth | X |
| Arise to thee the children call and I | Y |
| Thy shepherd pipe and sweet is every sound | Z |
| Sweeter thy voice but every sound is sweet | A2 |
| Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn | B2 |
| The moan of doves in immemorial elms | C2 |
| And murmuring of innumerable bees | D2 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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