The Princess (part 6) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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My dream had never died or lived againA
As in some mystic middle state I layB
Seeing I saw not hearing not I heardC
Though if I saw not yet they told me allD
So often that I speak as having seenE
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For so it seemed or so they said to meF
That all things grew more tragic and more strangeG
That when our side was vanquished and my causeH
For ever lost there went up a great cryI
The Prince is slain My father heard and ranJ
In on the lists and there unlaced my casqueK
And grovelled on my body and after himL
Came Psyche sorrowing for Agla aM
But high upon the palace Ida stoodN
With Psyche's babe in arm there on the roofsO
Like that great dame of Lapidoth she sangK
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'Our enemies have fallen have fallen the seedP
The little seed they laughed at in the darkK
Has risen and cleft the soil and grown a bulkK
Of spanless girth that lays on every sideQ
A thousand arms and rushes to the SunR
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'Our enemies have fallen have fallen they cameS
The leaves were wet with women's tears they heardC
A noise of songs they would not understandT
They marked it with the red cross to the fallD
And would have strown it and are fallen themselvesU
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'Our enemies have fallen have fallen they cameS
The woodmen with their axes lo the treeF
But we will make it faggots for the hearthV
And shape it plank and beam for roof and floorW
And boats and bridges for the use of menA
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'Our enemies have fallen have fallen they struckK
With their own blows they hurt themselves nor knewX
There dwelt an iron nature in the grainY
The glittering axe was broken in their armsZ
Their arms were shattered to the shoulder bladeA2
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'Our enemies have fallen but this shall growB2
A night of Summer from the heat a breadthC2
Of Autumn dropping fruits of power and rolledD2
With music in the growing breeze of TimeE2
The tops shall strike from star to star the fangsF2
Shall move the stony bases of the worldG2
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'And now O maids behold our sanctuaryF
Is violate our laws broken fear we notH2
To break them more in their behoof whose armsZ
Championed our cause and won it with a dayB
Blanched in our annals and perpetual feastI2
When dames and heroines of the golden yearJ2
Shall strip a hundred hollows bare of SpringK
To rain an April of ovation roundK2
Their statues borne aloft the three but comeL2
We will be liberal since our rights are wonR
Let them not lie in the tents with coarse mankindM2
Ill nurses but descend and proffer theseN2
The brethren of our blood and cause that thereO2
Lie bruised and maimed the tender ministriesN2
Of female hands and hospitality '-
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She spoke and with the babe yet in her armsZ
Descending burst the great bronze valves and ledP2
A hundred maids in train across the ParkK
Some cowled and some bare headed on they cameS
Their feet in flowers her loveliest by them wentQ2
The enamoured air sighing and on their curlsR2
From the high tree the blossom wavering fellS2
And over them the tremulous isles of lightT2
Slided they moving under shade but BlancheU2
At distance followed so they came anonR
Through open field into the lists they woundK2
Timorously and as the leader of the herdC
That holds a stately fretwork to the SunR
And followed up by a hundred airy doesV2
Steps with a tender foot light as on airO2
The lovely lordly creature floated onR
To where her wounded brethren lay there stayedA2
Knelt on one knee the child on one and prestW2
Their hands and called them dear deliverersX2
And happy warriors and immortal namesY2
And said 'You shall not lie in the tents but hereZ2
And nursed by those for whom you fought and servedA3
With female hands and hospitality '-
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Then whether moved by this or was it chanceB3
She past my way Up started from my sideQ
The old lion glaring with his whelpless eyeI
Silent but when she saw me lying starkK
Dishelmed and mute and motionlessly paleC3
Cold even to her she sighed and when she sawD3
The haggard father's face and reverend beardE3
Of grisly twine all dabbled with the bloodF3
Of his own son shuddered a twitch of painR
Tortured her mouth and o'er her forehead pastG3
A shadow and her hue changed and she saidP2
'He saved my life my brother slew him for it '-
No more at which the king in bitter scornR
Drew from my neck the painting and the tressH3
And held them up she saw them and a dayB
Rose from the distance on her memoryF
When the good Queen her mother shore the tressH3
With kisses ere the days of Lady BlancheU2
And then once more she looked at my pale faceI3
Till understanding all the foolish workK
Of Fancy and the bitter close of allD
Her iron will was broken in her mindM2
Her noble heart was molten in her breastW2
She bowed she set the child on the earth she laidA2
A feeling finger on my brows and presentlyF
'O Sire ' she said 'he lives he is not deadP2
O let me have him with my brethren hereZ2
In our own palace we will tend on himL
Like one of these if so by any meansJ3
To lighten this great clog of thanks that makeK
Our progress falter to the woman's goal '-
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She said but at the happy word 'he lives'K3
My father stooped re fathered o'er my woundsL3
So those two foes above my fallen lifeM3
With brow to brow like night and evening mixtP2
Their dark and gray while Psyche ever stoleN3
A little nearer till the babe that by usO3
Half lapt in glowing gauze and golden bredeP2
Lay like a new fallen meteor on the grassP3
Uncared for spied its mother and beganR
A blind and babbling laughter and to danceB3
Its body and reach its fatling innocent armsZ
And lazy lingering fingers She the appealQ3
Brooked not but clamouring out 'Mine mine not yoursR3
It is not yours but mine give me the child'P2
Ceased all on tremble piteous was the cryI
So stood the unhappy mother open mouthedP2
And turned each face her way wan was her cheekK
With hollow watch her blooming mantle tornR
Red grief and mother's hunger in her eyeI
And down dead heavy sank her curls and halfS3
The sacred mother's bosom panting burstP2
The laces toward her babe but she nor caredP2
Nor knew it clamouring on till Ida heardP2
Looked up and rising slowly from me stoodP2
Erect and silent striking with her glanceB3
The mother me the child but he that layB
Beside us Cyril battered as he wasH
Trailed himself up on one knee then he drewX
Her robe to meet his lips and down she lookedP2
At the armed man sideways pitying as it seemedP2
Or self involved but when she learnt his faceI3
Remembering his ill omened song aroseT3
Once more through all her height and o'er him grewX
Tall as a figure lengthened on the sandP2
When the tide ebbs in sunshine and he saidP2
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'O fair and strong and terrible LionessT3
That with your long locks play the Lion's maneR
But Love and Nature these are two more terribleU3
And stronger See your foot is on our necksT3
We vanquished you the Victor of your willV3
What would you more Give her the child remainR
Orbed in your isolation he is deadP2
Or all as dead henceforth we let you beF
Win you the hearts of women and bewareO2
Lest where you seek the common love of theseT3
The common hate with the revolving wheelQ3
Should drag you down and some great NemesisT3
Break from a darkened future crowned with fireW3
And tread you out for ever but howso'erW3
Fixed in yourself never in your own armsT3
To hold your own deny not hers to herW3
Give her the child O if I say you keepX3
One pulse that beats true woman if you lovedP2
The breast that fed or arm that dandled youX
Or own one port of sense not flint to prayerW3
Give her the child or if you scorn to lay itP2
Yourself in hands so lately claspt with yoursT3
Or speak to her your dearest her one faultP2
The tenderness not yours that could not killV3
Give me it I will give it herW3
He saidP2
At first her eye with slow dilation rolledP2
Dry flame she listening after sank and sankK
And into mournful twilight mellowing dweltP2
Full on the chU2

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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