The Princess (part Iii) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Morn 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 '	-
	-
'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
	-
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 '	-
	-
'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 '	-
	-
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 '	-
	-
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
	-
I rode beside her and to me she said	X2
'O friend we trust that you esteemed us not	X2
Too harsh to your companion yestermorn	M2
Unwillingly we spake ' 'No not to her '	-
I answered 'but to one of whom we spake	Z
Your Highness might have seemed the thing you say '	-
'Again ' she cried 'are you ambassadresses	L2
From him to me we give you being strange	N3
A license speak and let the topic die '	-
	-
I stammered that I knew him could have wished	X2
'Our king expects was there no precontract	X2
There is no truer hearted ah you seem	G3
All he prefigured and he could not see	L2
The bird of passage flying south but longed	X2
To follow surely if your Highness keep	I
Your purport you will shock him even to death	O3
Or baser courses children of despair '	-
	-
'Poor boy ' she said 'can he not read no books	L2
Quoit tennis ball no games nor deals in that	X2
Which men delight in martial exercise	L2
To nurse a blind ideal like a girl	P3
Methinks he seems no better than a girl	P3
As girls were once as we ourself have been	M2
We had our dreams perhaps he mixt with them	G3
We touch on our dead self nor shun to do it	X2
Being other since we learnt our meaning here	Q3
To lift the woman's fallen divinity	L2
Upon an even pedestal with man '	-
	-
She paused and added with a haughtier smile	R3
'And as to precontracts we move my friend	X2
At no man's beck but know ourself and thee	L2
O Vashti noble Vashti Summoned out	X2
She kept her state and left the drunken king	S3
To brawl at Shushan underneath the palms '	-
	-
'Alas your Highness breathes full East ' I said	X2
'On that which leans to you I know the Prince	L2
I prize his truth and then how vast a work	T3
To assail this gray pre minence of man	M2
You grant me license might I use it think	U3
Ere half be done perchance your life may fail	C3
Then comes the feebler heiress of your plan	M2
And takes and ruins all and thus your pains	L2
May only make that footprint upon sand	X2
Which old recurring waves of prejudice	L2
Resmooth to nothing might I dread that you	W
With only Fame for spouse and your great deeds	L2
For issue yet may live in vain and miss	L2
Meanwhile what every woman counts her due	W
Love children happiness '	-
And she exclaimed	X2
'Peace you young savage of the Northern wild	X2
What though your Prince's love were like a God's	L2
Have we not made ourself the sacrifice	L2
You are bold indeed we are not talked to thus	L2
Yet will we say for children would they grew	W
Like field flowers everywhere we like them well	V3
But children die and let me tell you girl	P3
Howe'er you babble great deeds cannot die	X2
They with the sun and moon renew their light	X2
For ever blessing those that look on them	G3
Children that men may pluck them from our hearts	L2
Kill us with pity break us with ourselves	L2
O children there is nothing upon earth	W3
More miserable than she that has a son	M2
And sees him err nor would we work for fame	G3
Though she perhaps might reap the applause of Great	X2
Who earns the one POU STO whence after hands	L2
May move the world though she herself effect	X2
But little wherefore up and act nor shrink	U3
For fear our solid aim be dissipated	X2
By frail successors Would indeed we had been	M2
In lieu of many mortal flies a race	L2
Of giants living each a thousand years	L2
That we might see our own work out and watch	X3
The sandy footprint harden into stone '	-
	-
I answered nothing doubtful in myself	B3
If that strange Poet princess with her grand	X2
Imaginations might at all be won	M2
And she broke out interpreting my thoughts	L2
	-
'No doubt we seem a kind of monster to you	W
We are used to that for women up till this	L2
Cramped under worse than South sea isle taboo	W
Dwarfs of the gyn ceum fail so far	A
In high desire they know not cannot guess	L2
How much their welfare is a passion to us	L2
If we could give them surer quicker proof	Y3
Oh if our end were less achievable	I3
By slow approaches than by single act	X2
Of immolation any phase of death	O3
We were as prompt to spring against the pikes	L2
Or down the fiery gulf as talk of it	X2
To compass our dear sisters' liberties '	-
	-
She bowed as if to veil a noble tear	C
And up we came to where the river sloped	X2
To plunge in cataract shattering on black blocks	L2
A breadth of thunder O'er it shook the woods	L2
And danced the colour and below stuck out	X2
The bones of some vast bulk that lived and roared	X2
Before man was She gazed awhile and said	X2
'As these rude bones to us are we to her	X
That will be ' 'Dare we dream of that ' I asked	X2
'Which wrought us as the workman and his work	T3
That practice betters ' 'How ' she cried 'you love	V
The metaphysics read and earn our prize	L2
A golden brooch beneath an emerald plane	M2
Sits Diotima teaching him that died	X2
Of hemlock our device wrought to the life	Z3
She rapt upon her subject he on her	X
For there are schools for all ' 'And yet' I said	X2
'Methinks I have not found among them all	F3
One anatomic ' 'Nay we thought of that '	-
She answered 'but it pleased us not in truth	V2
We shudder but to dream our maids should ape	A4
Those monstrous males that carve the living hound	X2
And cram him with the fragments of the grave	H3
Or in the dark dissolving human heart	X2
And holy secrets of this microcosm	G3
Dabbling a shameless hand with shameful jest	X2
Encarnalize their spirits yet we know	M2
Knowledge is knowledge and this matter hangs	L2
Howbeit ourself foreseeing casualty	X2
Nor willing men should come among us learnt	X2
For many weary moons before we came	G3
This craft of healing Were you sick ourself	B3
Would tend upon you To your question now	M2
Which touches on the workman and his work	T3
Let there be light and there was light 'tis so	M2
For was and is and will be are but is	L2
And all creation is one act at once	L2
The birth of light but we that are not all	F3
As parts can see but parts now this now that	X2
And live perforce from thought to thought and make	Z
One act a phantom of succession thus	L2
Our weakness somehow shapes the shadow Time	G3
But in the shadow will we work and mould	X2
The woman to the fuller day '	-
She spake	Z
With kindled eyes we rode a league beyond	X2
And o'er a bridge of pinewood crossing came	G3
On flowery levels underneath the crag	Z
Full of all beauty 'O how sweet' I said	X2
For I was half oblivious of my mask	Z
'To linger here with one that loved us ' 'Yea '	-
She answered 'or with fair philosophies	L2
That lift the fancy for indeed these fields	L2
Are lovely lovelier not the Elysian lawns	L2
Where paced the Demigods of old and saw	L2
The soft white vapour streak the crown d towers	L2
Built to the Sun ' then turning to her maids	L2
'Pitch our pavilion here upon the sward	X2
Lay out the viands ' At the word they raised	X2
A tent of satin elaborately wrought	X2
With fair Corinna's triumph here she stood	X2
Engirt with many a florid maiden cheek	Z
The woman conqueror woman conquered there	C
The bearded Victor of ten thousand hymns	L2
And all the men mourned at his side but we	X2
Set forth to climb then climbing Cyril kept	X2
With Psyche with Melissa Florian I	X2
With mine affianced Many a little hand	X2
Glanced like a touch of sunshine on the rocks	L2
Many a light foot shone like a jewel set	X2
In the dark crag and then we turned we wound	X2
About the cliffs the copses out and in	M2
Hammering and clinking chattering stony names	L2
Of shales and hornblende rag and trap and tuff	B4
Amygdaloid and trachyte till the Sun	M2
Grew broader toward his death and fell and all	F3
The rosy heights came out above the lawns	L2
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The splendour falls on castle walls	L2
And snowy summits old in story	X2
The long light shakes across the lakes	L2
And the wild cataract leaps in glory	X2
Blow bugle blow set the wild echoes flying	Z
Blow bugle answer echoes dying dying dying	Z
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O hark O hear how thin and clear	A3
And thinner clearer farther going	Z
O sweet and far from cliff and scar	A
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing	Z
Blow let us hear the purple glens replying	Z
Blow bugle answer echoes dying dying dying	Z
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O love they die in yon rich sky	X2
They faint on hill or field or river	X
Our echoes roll from soul to soul	C4
And grow for ever and for ever	X
Blow bugle blow set the wild echoes flying	Z
And answer echoes answer dying dying dying	Z

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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