Three Portraits Of Prince Charles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDEFGFG HIHI JKJLMNMNOCOCPQPQ RSRSTUTUVWX YIYI

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Beautiful face of a childB
Lighted with laughter and gleeC
Mirthful and tender and wildB
My heart is heavy for theeC
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Beautiful face of a youthD
As an eagle poised to fly forthE
To the old land loyal of truthD
To the hills and the sounds of the NorthE
Fair face daring and proudF
Lo the shadow of doom even nowG
The fate of thy line like a cloudF
Rests on the grace of thy browG
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Cruel and angry faceH
Hateful and heavy with wineI
Where are the gladness the graceH
The beauty the mirth that were thineI
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Ah my Prince it were wellJ
Hadst thou to the gods been dearK
To have fallen where Keppoch fellJ
With the war pipe loud in thine earL
To have died with never a stainM
On the fair White Rose of RenownN
To have fallen fighting in vainM
For thy father thy faith and thy crownN
More than thy marble pileO
With its women weeping for theeC
Were to dream in thine ancient isleO
To the endless dirge of the seaC
But the Fates deemed otherwiseP
Far thou sleepest from homeQ
From the tears of the Northern skiesP
In the secular dust of RomeQ
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A city of death and the deadR
But thither a pilgrim cameS
Wearing on weary headR
The crowns of years and fameS
Little the Lucrine lakeT
Or Tivoli said to himU
Scarce did the memories wakeT
Of the far off years and dimU
For he stood by Avernus' shoreV
But he dreamed of a Northern glenW
And he murmured over and o'erX
'For Charlie and his men '-
And his feet to death that wentY
Crept forth to St Peter's shrineI
And the latest Minstrel bentY
O'er the last of the Stuart lineI

Andrew Lang



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