Adieux à? Marie Stuart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG BCBC A HIHI HJHK HLHL MDMD A NLNL OGOG PQRQ DLDL R OCOC DSDS TUTU VCVC R UOUO WSWS HXHY RDRD R ZLZL RGRG A2B2IB2 C2LC2L R D2CD2C SE2SE2 F2IFI RCRC| I | A |
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| QUEEN for whose house my fathers fought | B |
| With hopes that rose and fell | C |
| Red star of boyhood s fiery thought | B |
| Farewell | C |
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| They gave their lives and I my queen | D |
| Have given you of my life | E |
| Seeing your brave star burn high between | D |
| Men s strife | E |
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| The strife that lightened round their spears | F |
| Long since fell still so long | G |
| Hardly may hope to last in years | F |
| My song | G |
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| But still through strife of time and thought | B |
| Your light on me too fell | C |
| Queen in whose name we sang or fought | B |
| Farewell | C |
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| II | A |
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| There beats no heart on either border | H |
| Wherethrough the north blasts blow | I |
| But keeps your memory as a warder | H |
| His beacon fire aglow | I |
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| Long since it fired with love and wonder | H |
| Mine for whose April age | J |
| Blithe midsummer made banquet under | H |
| The shade of Hermitage | K |
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| Soft sang the burn s blithe notes that gather | H |
| Strength to ring true | L |
| And air and trees and sun and heather | H |
| Remembered you | L |
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| Old border ghosts of fight or fairy | M |
| Or love or teen | D |
| These they forgot remembering Mary | M |
| The Queen | D |
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| III | A |
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| Queen once of Scots and ever of ours | N |
| Whose sires brought forth for you | L |
| Their lives to strew your way like flowers | N |
| Adieu | L |
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| Dead is full many a dead man s name | O |
| Who died for you this long | G |
| Time past shall this too fare the same | O |
| My song | G |
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| But surely though it die or live | P |
| Your face was worth | Q |
| All that a man may think to give | R |
| On earth | Q |
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| No darkness cast of years between | D |
| Can darken you | L |
| Man s love will never bid my queen | D |
| Adieu | L |
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| IV | R |
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| Love hangs like light about your name | O |
| As music round the shell | C |
| No heart can take of you a tame | O |
| Farewell | C |
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| Yet when your very face was seen | D |
| Ill gifts were yours for giving | S |
| Love gat strange guerdons of my queen | D |
| When living | S |
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| O diamond heart unflawed and clear | T |
| The whole world s crowning jewel | U |
| Was ever heart so deadly dear | T |
| So cruel | U |
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| Yet none for you of all that bled | V |
| Grudged once one drop that fell | C |
| Not one to life reluctant said | V |
| Farewell | C |
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| V | R |
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| Strange love they have given you love disloyal | U |
| Who mock with praise your name | O |
| To leave a head so rare and royal | U |
| Too low for praise or blame | O |
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| You could not love nor hate they tell us | W |
| You had nor sense nor sting | S |
| In God s name then what plague befell us | W |
| To fight for such a thing | S |
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| Some faults the gods will give to fetter | H |
| Man s highest intent | X |
| But surely you were something better | H |
| Than innocent | Y |
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| No maid that strays with steps unwary | R |
| Through snares unseen | D |
| But one to live and die for Mary | R |
| The Queen | D |
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| VI | R |
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| Forgive them all their praise who blot | Z |
| Your fame with praise of you | L |
| Then love may say and falter not | Z |
| Adieu | L |
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| Yet some you hardly would forgive | R |
| Who did you much less wrong | G |
| Once but resentment should not live | R |
| Too long | G |
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| They never saw your lip s bright bow | A2 |
| Your swordbright eyes | B2 |
| The bluest of heavenly things below | I |
| The skies | B2 |
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| Clear eyes that love s self finds most like | C2 |
| A swordblade s blue | L |
| A swordblade s ever keen to strike | C2 |
| Adieu | L |
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| VII | R |
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| Though all things breathe or sound of fight | D2 |
| That yet make up your spell | C |
| To bid you were to bid the light | D2 |
| Farewell | C |
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| Farewell the song says only being | S |
| A star whose race is run | E2 |
| Farewell the soul says never seeing | S |
| The sun | E2 |
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| Yet wellnigh as with flash of tears | F2 |
| The song must say but so | I |
| That took your praise up twenty years | F |
| Ago | I |
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| More bright than stars or moons that vary | R |
| Sun kindling heaven and hell | C |
| Here after all these years Queen Mary | R |
| Farewell | C |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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