The Princess (the Conclusion) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMKNKOPQR OESTUBVW XYZXXXA2XB2C2 XD2E2F2G2MXH2XI2 XJ2K2L2XM2XN2XXXXO2K XP2XXQ2WR2H2 S2T2U2XM2XR C2XC2XEHV2W2C2X2HY2C 2Z2XA3XB3A3KXC2C2A3X C3 D3XEC2XXXE3C2C2 EF3X

So closed our tale of which I give you allA
The random scheme as wildly as it roseB
The words are mostly mine for when we ceasedC
There came a minute's pause and Walter saidD
'I wish she had not yielded ' then to meE
'What if you drest it up poetically 'F
So prayed the men the women I gave assentG
Yet how to bind the scattered scheme of sevenH
Together in one sheaf What style could suitI
The men required that I should give throughoutJ
The sort of mock heroic gigantesqueK
With which we bantered little Lilia firstL
The women and perhaps they felt their powerM
For something in the ballads which they sangK
Or in their silent influence as they satN
Had ever seemed to wrestle with burlesqueK
And drove us last to quite a solemn closeO
They hated banter wished for something realP
A gallant fight a noble princess whyQ
Not make her true heroic true sublimeR
Or all they said as earnest as the closeO
Which yet with such a framework scarce could beE
Then rose a little feud betwixt the twoS
Betwixt the mockers and the realistsT
And I betwixt them both to please them bothU
And yet to give the story as it roseB
I moved as in a strange diagonalV
And maybe neither pleased myself nor themW
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But Lilia pleased me for she took no partX
In our dispute the sequel of the taleY
Had touched her and she sat she plucked the grassZ
She flung it from her thinking last she fixtX
A showery glance upon her aunt and saidX
'You tell us what we are' who might have toldX
For she was crammed with theories out of booksA2
But that there rose a shout the gates were closedX
At sunset and the crowd were swarming nowB2
To take their leave about the garden railsC2
-
So I and some went out to these we climbedX
The slope to Vivian place and turning sawD2
The happy valleys half in light and halfE2
Far shadowing from the west a land of peaceF2
Gray halls alone among their massive grovesG2
Trim hamlets here and there a rustic towerM
Half lost in belts of hop and breadths of wheatX
The shimmering glimpses of a stream the seasH2
A red sail or a white and far beyondX
Imagined more than seen the skirts of FranceI2
-
'Look there a garden ' said my college friendX
The Tory member's elder son 'and thereJ2
God bless the narrow sea which keeps her offK2
And keeps our Britain whole within herselfL2
A nation yet the rulers and the ruledX
Some sense of duty something of a faithM2
Some reverence for the laws ourselves have madeX
Some patient force to change them when we willN2
Some civic manhood firm against the crowdX
But yonder whiff there comes a sudden heatX
The gravest citizen seems to lose his headX
The king is scared the soldier will not fightX
The little boys begin to shoot and stabO2
A kingdom topples over with a shriekK
Like an old woman and down rolls the worldX
In mock heroics stranger than our ownP2
Revolts republics revolutions mostX
No graver than a schoolboys' barring outX
Too comic for the serious things they areQ2
Too solemn for the comic touches in themW
Like our wild Princess with as wise a dreamR2
As some of theirs God bless the narrow seasH2
I wish they were a whole Atlantic broad '-
-
'Have patience ' I replied 'ourselves are fullS2
Of social wrong and maybe wildest dreamsT2
Are but the needful preludes of the truthU2
For me the genial day the happy crowdX
The sport half science fill me with a faithM2
This fine old world of ours is but a childX
Yet in the go cart Patience Give it timeR
To learn its limbs there is a hand that guides '-
-
In such discourse we gained the garden railsC2
And there we saw Sir Walter where he stoodX
Before a tower of crimson holly hoaksC2
Among six boys head under head and lookedX
No little lily handed Baronet heE
A great broad shouldered genial EnglishmanH
A lord of fat prize oxen and of sheepV2
A raiser of huge melons and of pineW2
A patron of some thirty charitiesC2
A pamphleteer on guano and on grainX2
A quarter sessions chairman abler noneH
Fair haired and redder than a windy mornY2
Now shaking hands with him now him of thoseC2
That stood the nearest now addressed to speechZ2
Who spoke few words and pithy such as closedX
Welcome farewell and welcome for the yearA3
To follow a shout rose again and madeX
The long line of the approaching rookery swerveB3
From the elms and shook the branches of the deerA3
From slope to slope through distant ferns and rangK
Beyond the bourn of sunset O a shoutX
More joyful than the city roar that hailsC2
Premier or king Why should not these great SirsC2
Give up their parks some dozen times a yearA3
To let the people breathe So thrice they criedX
I likewise and in groups they streamed awayC3
-
But we went back to the Abbey and sat onD3
So much the gathering darkness charmed we satX
But spoke not rapt in nameless reverieE
Perchance upon the future man the wallsC2
Blackened about us bats wheeled and owls whoopedX
And gradually the powers of the nightX
That range above the region of the windX
Deepening the courts of twilight broke them upE3
Through all the silent spaces of the worldsC2
Beyond all thought into the Heaven of HeavensC2
-
Last little Lilia rising quietlyE
Disrobed the glimmering statue of Sir RalphF3
From those rich silks and home well pleased we wentX

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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