The Princess (the Conclusion) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMKNKOPQR OESTUBVW XYZXXXA2XB2C2 XD2E2F2G2MXH2XI2 XJ2K2L2XM2XN2XXXXO2K XP2XXQ2WR2H2 S2T2U2XM2XR C2XC2XEHV2W2C2X2HY2C 2Z2XA3XB3A3KXC2C2A3X C3 D3XEC2XXXE3C2C2 EF3XSo closed our tale of which I give you all | A |
The random scheme as wildly as it rose | B |
The words are mostly mine for when we ceased | C |
There came a minute's pause and Walter said | D |
'I wish she had not yielded ' then to me | E |
'What if you drest it up poetically ' | F |
So prayed the men the women I gave assent | G |
Yet how to bind the scattered scheme of seven | H |
Together in one sheaf What style could suit | I |
The men required that I should give throughout | J |
The sort of mock heroic gigantesque | K |
With which we bantered little Lilia first | L |
The women and perhaps they felt their power | M |
For something in the ballads which they sang | K |
Or in their silent influence as they sat | N |
Had ever seemed to wrestle with burlesque | K |
And drove us last to quite a solemn close | O |
They hated banter wished for something real | P |
A gallant fight a noble princess why | Q |
Not make her true heroic true sublime | R |
Or all they said as earnest as the close | O |
Which yet with such a framework scarce could be | E |
Then rose a little feud betwixt the two | S |
Betwixt the mockers and the realists | T |
And I betwixt them both to please them both | U |
And yet to give the story as it rose | B |
I moved as in a strange diagonal | V |
And maybe neither pleased myself nor them | W |
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But Lilia pleased me for she took no part | X |
In our dispute the sequel of the tale | Y |
Had touched her and she sat she plucked the grass | Z |
She flung it from her thinking last she fixt | X |
A showery glance upon her aunt and said | X |
'You tell us what we are' who might have told | X |
For she was crammed with theories out of books | A2 |
But that there rose a shout the gates were closed | X |
At sunset and the crowd were swarming now | B2 |
To take their leave about the garden rails | C2 |
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So I and some went out to these we climbed | X |
The slope to Vivian place and turning saw | D2 |
The happy valleys half in light and half | E2 |
Far shadowing from the west a land of peace | F2 |
Gray halls alone among their massive groves | G2 |
Trim hamlets here and there a rustic tower | M |
Half lost in belts of hop and breadths of wheat | X |
The shimmering glimpses of a stream the seas | H2 |
A red sail or a white and far beyond | X |
Imagined more than seen the skirts of France | I2 |
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'Look there a garden ' said my college friend | X |
The Tory member's elder son 'and there | J2 |
God bless the narrow sea which keeps her off | K2 |
And keeps our Britain whole within herself | L2 |
A nation yet the rulers and the ruled | X |
Some sense of duty something of a faith | M2 |
Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made | X |
Some patient force to change them when we will | N2 |
Some civic manhood firm against the crowd | X |
But yonder whiff there comes a sudden heat | X |
The gravest citizen seems to lose his head | X |
The king is scared the soldier will not fight | X |
The little boys begin to shoot and stab | O2 |
A kingdom topples over with a shriek | K |
Like an old woman and down rolls the world | X |
In mock heroics stranger than our own | P2 |
Revolts republics revolutions most | X |
No graver than a schoolboys' barring out | X |
Too comic for the serious things they are | Q2 |
Too solemn for the comic touches in them | W |
Like our wild Princess with as wise a dream | R2 |
As some of theirs God bless the narrow seas | H2 |
I wish they were a whole Atlantic broad ' | - |
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'Have patience ' I replied 'ourselves are full | S2 |
Of social wrong and maybe wildest dreams | T2 |
Are but the needful preludes of the truth | U2 |
For me the genial day the happy crowd | X |
The sport half science fill me with a faith | M2 |
This fine old world of ours is but a child | X |
Yet in the go cart Patience Give it time | R |
To learn its limbs there is a hand that guides ' | - |
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In such discourse we gained the garden rails | C2 |
And there we saw Sir Walter where he stood | X |
Before a tower of crimson holly hoaks | C2 |
Among six boys head under head and looked | X |
No little lily handed Baronet he | E |
A great broad shouldered genial Englishman | H |
A lord of fat prize oxen and of sheep | V2 |
A raiser of huge melons and of pine | W2 |
A patron of some thirty charities | C2 |
A pamphleteer on guano and on grain | X2 |
A quarter sessions chairman abler none | H |
Fair haired and redder than a windy morn | Y2 |
Now shaking hands with him now him of those | C2 |
That stood the nearest now addressed to speech | Z2 |
Who spoke few words and pithy such as closed | X |
Welcome farewell and welcome for the year | A3 |
To follow a shout rose again and made | X |
The long line of the approaching rookery swerve | B3 |
From the elms and shook the branches of the deer | A3 |
From slope to slope through distant ferns and rang | K |
Beyond the bourn of sunset O a shout | X |
More joyful than the city roar that hails | C2 |
Premier or king Why should not these great Sirs | C2 |
Give up their parks some dozen times a year | A3 |
To let the people breathe So thrice they cried | X |
I likewise and in groups they streamed away | C3 |
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But we went back to the Abbey and sat on | D3 |
So much the gathering darkness charmed we sat | X |
But spoke not rapt in nameless reverie | E |
Perchance upon the future man the walls | C2 |
Blackened about us bats wheeled and owls whooped | X |
And gradually the powers of the night | X |
That range above the region of the wind | X |
Deepening the courts of twilight broke them up | E3 |
Through all the silent spaces of the worlds | C2 |
Beyond all thought into the Heaven of Heavens | C2 |
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Last little Lilia rising quietly | E |
Disrobed the glimmering statue of Sir Ralph | F3 |
From those rich silks and home well pleased we went | X |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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