The Princess (part 3) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKL MNOPQRSTUVWXYZA2B2C2 D2WE2F2G2H2I2J2K2L2M 2N2WENO2P2C2 CLM2B2L2M2L2Q2 R2S2 WXT2XL2U2L2V2W2X2WX2 X2I2L2VX2X2X2 XY2X2M2Z2X2 M2C2A3L2B3M2L2M2XL2L 2L2 X2X2C2C3D3L2SX2LX2E3 M2M2CL2O2X2X2XCF3C2L 2LX2L2L2G3X2G3F3WX2L 2B2L2WH3L2L2L2WX2M2W M2X2G3I3L X2ZJ3X2F3CL2C3 F3XX2X2M2X2A3G3L2K3L 2L2G3X2L3C2L2M3K3W2L 2 X2Morn in the wake of the morning star | A |
Came furrowing all the orient into gold | B |
We rose and each by other drest with care | C |
Descended to the court that lay three parts | D |
In shadow but the Muses' heads were touched | E |
Above the darkness from their native East | F |
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There while we stood beside the fount and watched | G |
Or seemed to watch the dancing bubble approached | H |
Melissa tinged with wan from lack of sleep | I |
Or grief and glowing round her dewy eyes | J |
The circled Iris of a night of tears | K |
'And fly ' she cried 'O fly while yet you may | L |
My mother knows ' and when I asked her 'how ' | - |
'My fault' she wept 'my fault and yet not mine | M |
Yet mine in part O hear me pardon me | N |
My mother 'tis her wont from night to night | O |
To rail at Lady Psyche and her side | P |
She says the Princess should have been the Head | Q |
Herself and Lady Psyche the two arms | R |
And so it was agreed when first they came | S |
But Lady Psyche was the right hand now | T |
And the left or not or seldom used | U |
Hers more than half the students all the love | V |
And so last night she fell to canvass you | W |
Her countrywomen she did not envy her | X |
Who ever saw such wild barbarians | Y |
Girls more like men and at these words the snake | Z |
My secret seemed to stir within my breast | A2 |
And oh Sirs could I help it but my cheek | B2 |
Began to burn and burn and her lynx eye | C2 |
To fix and make me hotter till she laughed | D2 |
O marvellously modest maiden you | W |
Men girls like men why if they had been men | E2 |
You need not set your thoughts in rubric thus | F2 |
For wholesale comment Pardon I am shamed | G2 |
That I must needs repeat for my excuse | H2 |
What looks so little graceful men for still | I2 |
My mother went revolving on the word | J2 |
And so they are very like men indeed | K2 |
And with that woman closeted for hours | L2 |
Then came these dreadful words out one by one | M2 |
Why these are men I shuddered and you know it | N2 |
O ask me nothing I said And she knows too | W |
And she conceals it So my mother clutched | E |
The truth at once but with no word from me | N |
And now thus early risen she goes to inform | O2 |
The Princess Lady Psyche will be crushed | P2 |
But you may yet be saved and therefore fly | C2 |
But heal me with your pardon ere you go ' | - |
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'What pardon sweet Melissa for a blush ' | - |
Said Cyril 'Pale one blush again than wear | C |
Those lilies better blush our lives away | L |
Yet let us breathe for one hour more in Heaven' | M2 |
He added 'lest some classic Angel speak | B2 |
In scorn of us They mounted Ganymedes | L2 |
To tumble Vulcans on the second morn | M2 |
But I will melt this marble into wax | L2 |
To yield us farther furlough ' and he went | Q2 |
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Melissa shook her doubtful curls and thought | R2 |
He scarce would prosper 'Tell us ' Florian asked | S2 |
'How grew this feud betwixt the right and left ' | - |
'O long ago ' she said 'betwixt these two | W |
Division smoulders hidden 'tis my mother | X |
Too jealous often fretful as the wind | T2 |
Pent in a crevice much I bear with her | X |
I never knew my father but she says | L2 |
God help her she was wedded to a fool | U2 |
And still she railed against the state of things | L2 |
She had the care of Lady Ida's youth | V2 |
And from the Queen's decease she brought her up | W2 |
But when your sister came she won the heart | X2 |
Of Ida they were still together grew | W |
For so they said themselves inosculated | X2 |
Consonant chords that shiver to one note | X2 |
One mind in all things yet my mother still | I2 |
Affirms your Psyche thieved her theories | L2 |
And angled with them for her pupil's love | V |
She calls her plagiarist I know not what | X2 |
But I must go I dare not tarry ' and light | X2 |
As flies the shadow of a bird she fled | X2 |
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Then murmured Florian gazing after her | X |
'An open hearted maiden true and pure | Y2 |
If I could love why this were she how pretty | X2 |
Her blushing was and how she blushed again | M2 |
As if to close with Cyril's random wish | Z2 |
Not like your Princess crammed with erring pride | X2 |
Nor like poor Psyche whom she drags in tow ' | - |
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'The crane ' I said 'may chatter of the crane | M2 |
The dove may murmur of the dove but I | C2 |
An eagle clang an eagle to the sphere | A3 |
My princess O my princess true she errs | L2 |
But in her own grand way being herself | B3 |
Three times more noble than three score of men | M2 |
She sees herself in every woman else | L2 |
And so she wears her error like a crown | M2 |
To blind the truth and me for her and her | X |
Hebes are they to hand ambrosia mix | L2 |
The nectar but ah she whene'er she moves | L2 |
The Samian Her rises and she speaks | L2 |
A Memnon smitten with the morning Sun ' | - |
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So saying from the court we paced and gained | X2 |
The terrace ranged along the Northern front | X2 |
And leaning there on those balusters high | C2 |
Above the empurpled champaign drank the gale | C3 |
That blown about the foliage underneath | D3 |
And sated with the innumerable rose | L2 |
Beat balm upon our eyelids Hither came | S |
Cyril and yawning 'O hard task ' he cried | X2 |
'No fighting shadows here I forced a way | L |
Through opposition crabbed and gnarled | X2 |
Better to clear prime forests heave and thump | E3 |
A league of street in summer solstice down | M2 |
Than hammer at this reverend gentlewoman | M2 |
I knocked and bidden entered found her there | C |
At point to move and settled in her eyes | L2 |
The green malignant light of coming storm | O2 |
Sir I was courteous every phrase well oiled | X2 |
As man's could be yet maiden meek I prayed | X2 |
Concealment she demanded who we were | X |
And why we came I fabled nothing fair | C |
But your example pilot told her all | F3 |
Up went the hushed amaze of hand and eye | C2 |
But when I dwelt upon your old affiance | L2 |
She answered sharply that I talked astray | L |
I urged the fierce inscription on the gate | X2 |
And our three lives True we had limed ourselves | L2 |
With open eyes and we must take the chance | L2 |
But such extremes I told her well might harm | G3 |
The woman's cause Not more than now she said | X2 |
So puddled as it is with favouritism | G3 |
I tried the mother's heart Shame might befall | F3 |
Melissa knowing saying not she knew | W |
Her answer was Leave me to deal with that | X2 |
I spoke of war to come and many deaths | L2 |
And she replied her duty was to speak | B2 |
And duty duty clear of consequences | L2 |
I grew discouraged Sir but since I knew | W |
No rock so hard but that a little wave | H3 |
May beat admission in a thousand years | L2 |
I recommenced Decide not ere you pause | L2 |
I find you here but in the second place | L2 |
Some say the third the authentic foundress you | W |
I offer boldly we will seat you highest | X2 |
Wink at our advent help my prince to gain | M2 |
His rightful bride and here I promise you | W |
Some palace in our land where you shall reign | M2 |
The head and heart of all our fair she world | X2 |
And your great name flow on with broadening time | G3 |
For ever Well she balanced this a little | I3 |
And told me she would answer us today | L |
meantime be mute thus much nor more I gained ' | - |
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He ceasing came a message from the Head | X2 |
'That afternoon the Princess rode to take | Z |
The dip of certain strata to the North | J3 |
Would we go with her we should find the land | X2 |
Worth seeing and the river made a fall | F3 |
Out yonder ' then she pointed on to where | C |
A double hill ran up his furrowy forks | L2 |
Beyond the thick leaved platans of the vale | C3 |
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Agreed to this the day fled on through all | F3 |
Its range of duties to the appointed hour | X |
Then summoned to the porch we went She stood | X2 |
Among her maidens higher by the head | X2 |
Her back against a pillar her foot on one | M2 |
Of those tame leopards Kittenlike he rolled | X2 |
And pawed about her sandal I drew near | A3 |
I gazed On a sudden my strange seizure came | G3 |
Upon me the weird vision of our house | L2 |
The Princess Ida seemed a hollow show | K3 |
Her gay furred cats a painted fantasy | L2 |
Her college and her maidens empty masks | L2 |
And I myself the shadow of a dream | G3 |
For all things were and were not Yet I felt | X2 |
My heart beat thick with passion and with awe | L3 |
Then from my breast the involuntary sigh | C2 |
Brake as she smote me with the light of eyes | L2 |
That lent my knee desire to kneel and shook | M3 |
My pulses till to horse we got and so | K3 |
Went forth in long retinue following up | W2 |
The river as it narrowed to the hills | L2 |
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I rode beside | X2 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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