The Princess (part 6) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJKLMNOK PKKQR SCTDU SFVWA KXYZA2 B2C2D2E2F2G2 FH2ZBI2J2KK2L2RM2N2O 2N2 ZP2KSQ2R2S2T2U2RK2CR V2O2RA2W2X2Y2Z2A3 B3QIKC3D3E3F3RG3P2 RH3BFH3U2I3KDM2W2A2F P2Z2LJ3K K3L3M3P2N3O3P2P3RB3Z Q3R3P2IP2KRIS3P2P2P2 P2B3BHXP2P2I3T3XP2P2 T3RU3T3V3RP2FO2T3Q3T 3W3W3T3W3X3P2XW3P2T3 P2V3W3P2P2KP2U2My dream had never died or lived again | A |
As in some mystic middle state I lay | B |
Seeing I saw not hearing not I heard | C |
Though if I saw not yet they told me all | D |
So often that I speak as having seen | E |
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For so it seemed or so they said to me | F |
That all things grew more tragic and more strange | G |
That when our side was vanquished and my cause | H |
For ever lost there went up a great cry | I |
The Prince is slain My father heard and ran | J |
In on the lists and there unlaced my casque | K |
And grovelled on my body and after him | L |
Came Psyche sorrowing for Agla a | M |
But high upon the palace Ida stood | N |
With Psyche's babe in arm there on the roofs | O |
Like that great dame of Lapidoth she sang | K |
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'Our enemies have fallen have fallen the seed | P |
The little seed they laughed at in the dark | K |
Has risen and cleft the soil and grown a bulk | K |
Of spanless girth that lays on every side | Q |
A thousand arms and rushes to the Sun | R |
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'Our enemies have fallen have fallen they came | S |
The leaves were wet with women's tears they heard | C |
A noise of songs they would not understand | T |
They marked it with the red cross to the fall | D |
And would have strown it and are fallen themselves | U |
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'Our enemies have fallen have fallen they came | S |
The woodmen with their axes lo the tree | F |
But we will make it faggots for the hearth | V |
And shape it plank and beam for roof and floor | W |
And boats and bridges for the use of men | A |
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'Our enemies have fallen have fallen they struck | K |
With their own blows they hurt themselves nor knew | X |
There dwelt an iron nature in the grain | Y |
The glittering axe was broken in their arms | Z |
Their arms were shattered to the shoulder blade | A2 |
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'Our enemies have fallen but this shall grow | B2 |
A night of Summer from the heat a breadth | C2 |
Of Autumn dropping fruits of power and rolled | D2 |
With music in the growing breeze of Time | E2 |
The tops shall strike from star to star the fangs | F2 |
Shall move the stony bases of the world | G2 |
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'And now O maids behold our sanctuary | F |
Is violate our laws broken fear we not | H2 |
To break them more in their behoof whose arms | Z |
Championed our cause and won it with a day | B |
Blanched in our annals and perpetual feast | I2 |
When dames and heroines of the golden year | J2 |
Shall strip a hundred hollows bare of Spring | K |
To rain an April of ovation round | K2 |
Their statues borne aloft the three but come | L2 |
We will be liberal since our rights are won | R |
Let them not lie in the tents with coarse mankind | M2 |
Ill nurses but descend and proffer these | N2 |
The brethren of our blood and cause that there | O2 |
Lie bruised and maimed the tender ministries | N2 |
Of female hands and hospitality ' | - |
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She spoke and with the babe yet in her arms | Z |
Descending burst the great bronze valves and led | P2 |
A hundred maids in train across the Park | K |
Some cowled and some bare headed on they came | S |
Their feet in flowers her loveliest by them went | Q2 |
The enamoured air sighing and on their curls | R2 |
From the high tree the blossom wavering fell | S2 |
And over them the tremulous isles of light | T2 |
Slided they moving under shade but Blanche | U2 |
At distance followed so they came anon | R |
Through open field into the lists they wound | K2 |
Timorously and as the leader of the herd | C |
That holds a stately fretwork to the Sun | R |
And followed up by a hundred airy does | V2 |
Steps with a tender foot light as on air | O2 |
The lovely lordly creature floated on | R |
To where her wounded brethren lay there stayed | A2 |
Knelt on one knee the child on one and prest | W2 |
Their hands and called them dear deliverers | X2 |
And happy warriors and immortal names | Y2 |
And said 'You shall not lie in the tents but here | Z2 |
And nursed by those for whom you fought and served | A3 |
With female hands and hospitality ' | - |
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Then whether moved by this or was it chance | B3 |
She past my way Up started from my side | Q |
The old lion glaring with his whelpless eye | I |
Silent but when she saw me lying stark | K |
Dishelmed and mute and motionlessly pale | C3 |
Cold even to her she sighed and when she saw | D3 |
The haggard father's face and reverend beard | E3 |
Of grisly twine all dabbled with the blood | F3 |
Of his own son shuddered a twitch of pain | R |
Tortured her mouth and o'er her forehead past | G3 |
A shadow and her hue changed and she said | P2 |
'He saved my life my brother slew him for it ' | - |
No more at which the king in bitter scorn | R |
Drew from my neck the painting and the tress | H3 |
And held them up she saw them and a day | B |
Rose from the distance on her memory | F |
When the good Queen her mother shore the tress | H3 |
With kisses ere the days of Lady Blanche | U2 |
And then once more she looked at my pale face | I3 |
Till understanding all the foolish work | K |
Of Fancy and the bitter close of all | D |
Her iron will was broken in her mind | M2 |
Her noble heart was molten in her breast | W2 |
She bowed she set the child on the earth she laid | A2 |
A feeling finger on my brows and presently | F |
'O Sire ' she said 'he lives he is not dead | P2 |
O let me have him with my brethren here | Z2 |
In our own palace we will tend on him | L |
Like one of these if so by any means | J3 |
To lighten this great clog of thanks that make | K |
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 wounds | L3 |
So those two foes above my fallen life | M3 |
With brow to brow like night and evening mixt | P2 |
Their dark and gray while Psyche ever stole | N3 |
A little nearer till the babe that by us | O3 |
Half lapt in glowing gauze and golden brede | P2 |
Lay like a new fallen meteor on the grass | P3 |
Uncared for spied its mother and began | R |
A blind and babbling laughter and to dance | B3 |
Its body and reach its fatling innocent arms | Z |
And lazy lingering fingers She the appeal | Q3 |
Brooked not but clamouring out 'Mine mine not yours | R3 |
It is not yours but mine give me the child' | P2 |
Ceased all on tremble piteous was the cry | I |
So stood the unhappy mother open mouthed | P2 |
And turned each face her way wan was her cheek | K |
With hollow watch her blooming mantle torn | R |
Red grief and mother's hunger in her eye | I |
And down dead heavy sank her curls and half | S3 |
The sacred mother's bosom panting burst | P2 |
The laces toward her babe but she nor cared | P2 |
Nor knew it clamouring on till Ida heard | P2 |
Looked up and rising slowly from me stood | P2 |
Erect and silent striking with her glance | B3 |
The mother me the child but he that lay | B |
Beside us Cyril battered as he was | H |
Trailed himself up on one knee then he drew | X |
Her robe to meet his lips and down she looked | P2 |
At the armed man sideways pitying as it seemed | P2 |
Or self involved but when she learnt his face | I3 |
Remembering his ill omened song arose | T3 |
Once more through all her height and o'er him grew | X |
Tall as a figure lengthened on the sand | P2 |
When the tide ebbs in sunshine and he said | P2 |
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'O fair and strong and terrible Lioness | T3 |
That with your long locks play the Lion's mane | R |
But Love and Nature these are two more terrible | U3 |
And stronger See your foot is on our necks | T3 |
We vanquished you the Victor of your will | V3 |
What would you more Give her the child remain | R |
Orbed in your isolation he is dead | P2 |
Or all as dead henceforth we let you be | F |
Win you the hearts of women and beware | O2 |
Lest where you seek the common love of these | T3 |
The common hate with the revolving wheel | Q3 |
Should drag you down and some great Nemesis | T3 |
Break from a darkened future crowned with fire | W3 |
And tread you out for ever but howso'er | W3 |
Fixed in yourself never in your own arms | T3 |
To hold your own deny not hers to her | W3 |
Give her the child O if I say you keep | X3 |
One pulse that beats true woman if you loved | P2 |
The breast that fed or arm that dandled you | X |
Or own one port of sense not flint to prayer | W3 |
Give her the child or if you scorn to lay it | P2 |
Yourself in hands so lately claspt with yours | T3 |
Or speak to her your dearest her one fault | P2 |
The tenderness not yours that could not kill | V3 |
Give me it I will give it her | W3 |
He said | P2 |
At first her eye with slow dilation rolled | P2 |
Dry flame she listening after sank and sank | K |
And into mournful twilight mellowing dwelt | P2 |
Full on the ch | U2 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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