Three Portraits Of Prince Charles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDEFGFG HIHI JKJLMNMNOCOCPQPQ RSRSTUTUVWX YIYIA | |
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Beautiful face of a child | B |
Lighted with laughter and glee | C |
Mirthful and tender and wild | B |
My heart is heavy for thee | C |
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Beautiful face of a youth | D |
As an eagle poised to fly forth | E |
To the old land loyal of truth | D |
To the hills and the sounds of the North | E |
Fair face daring and proud | F |
Lo the shadow of doom even now | G |
The fate of thy line like a cloud | F |
Rests on the grace of thy brow | G |
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Cruel and angry face | H |
Hateful and heavy with wine | I |
Where are the gladness the grace | H |
The beauty the mirth that were thine | I |
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Ah my Prince it were well | J |
Hadst thou to the gods been dear | K |
To have fallen where Keppoch fell | J |
With the war pipe loud in thine ear | L |
To have died with never a stain | M |
On the fair White Rose of Renown | N |
To have fallen fighting in vain | M |
For thy father thy faith and thy crown | N |
More than thy marble pile | O |
With its women weeping for thee | C |
Were to dream in thine ancient isle | O |
To the endless dirge of the sea | C |
But the Fates deemed otherwise | P |
Far thou sleepest from home | Q |
From the tears of the Northern skies | P |
In the secular dust of Rome | Q |
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A city of death and the dead | R |
But thither a pilgrim came | S |
Wearing on weary head | R |
The crowns of years and fame | S |
Little the Lucrine lake | T |
Or Tivoli said to him | U |
Scarce did the memories wake | T |
Of the far off years and dim | U |
For he stood by Avernus' shore | V |
But he dreamed of a Northern glen | W |
And he murmured over and o'er | X |
'For Charlie and his men ' | - |
And his feet to death that went | Y |
Crept forth to St Peter's shrine | I |
And the latest Minstrel bent | Y |
O'er the last of the Stuart line | I |
Andrew Lang
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