To The Queen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAAFGHIBIJKALMNJ OPQJRJSATUVWXAAYZGJP IOIWZOA2B2IJQMAJWWAW JUWWWC2JCO loyal to the royal in thyself | A |
And loyal to thy land as this to thee | B |
Bear witness that rememberable day | C |
When pale as yet and fever worn the Prince | D |
Who scarce had plucked his flickering life again | E |
From halfway down the shadow of the grave | A |
Past with thee through thy people and their love | A |
And London rolled one tide of joy through all | F |
Her trebled millions and loud leagues of man | G |
And welcome witness too the silent cry | H |
The prayer of many a race and creed and clime | I |
Thunderless lightnings striking under sea | B |
From sunset and sunrise of all thy realm | I |
And that true North whereof we lately heard | J |
A strain to shame us 'keep you to yourselves | K |
So loyal is too costly friends your love | A |
Is but a burthen loose the bond and go ' | L |
Is this the tone of empire here the faith | M |
That made us rulers this indeed her voice | N |
And meaning whom the roar of Hougoumont | J |
Left mightiest of all peoples under heaven | O |
What shock has fooled her since that she should speak | P |
So feebly wealthier wealthier hour by hour | Q |
The voice of Britain or a sinking land | J |
Some third rate isle half lost among her seas | R |
THERE rang her voice when the full city pealed | J |
Thee and thy Prince The loyal to their crown | S |
Are loyal to their own far sons who love | A |
Our ocean empire with her boundless homes | T |
For ever broadening England and her throne | U |
In our vast Orient and one isle one isle | V |
That knows not her own greatness if she knows | W |
And dreads it we are fallen But thou my Queen | X |
Not for itself but through thy living love | A |
For one to whom I made it o'er his grave | A |
Sacred accept this old imperfect tale | Y |
New old and shadowing Sense at war with Soul | Z |
Ideal manhood closed in real man | G |
Rather than that gray king whose name a ghost | J |
Streams like a cloud man shaped from mountain peak | P |
And cleaves to cairn and cromlech still or him | I |
Of Geoffrey's book or him of Malleor's one | O |
Touched by the adulterous finger of a time | I |
That hovered between war and wantonness | W |
And crownings and dethronements take withal | Z |
Thy poet's blessing and his trust that Heaven | O |
Will blow the tempest in the distance back | A2 |
From thine and ours for some are sacred who mark | B2 |
Or wisely or unwisely signs of storm | I |
Waverings of every vane with every wind | J |
And wordy trucklings to the transient hour | Q |
And fierce or careless looseners of the faith | M |
And Softness breeding scorn of simple life | A |
Or Cowardice the child of lust for gold | J |
Or Labour with a groan and not a voice | W |
Or Art with poisonous honey stolen from France | W |
And that which knows but careful for itself | A |
And that which knows not ruling that which knows | W |
To its own harm the goal of this great world | J |
Lies beyond sight yet if our slowly grown | U |
And crowned Republic's crowning common sense | W |
That saved her many times not fail their fears | W |
Are morning shadows huger than the shapes | W |
That cast them not those gloomier which forego | C2 |
The darkness of that battle in the West | J |
Where all of high and holy dies away | C |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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