The Statues And The Tear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCB DDEFGE HIJKKJ LLMNNOPPM| All night a fountain pleads | A |
| Telling her beads | A |
| Her tinkling beads monotonous 'neath the moon | B |
| And where she springs atween | B |
| Two statues lean | B |
| Two Kings their marble beards with moonlight | C |
| strewn | B |
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| Till hate had frozen speech | D |
| Each hated each | D |
| Hated and died and went unto his place | E |
| And still inveterate | F |
| They lean and hate | G |
| With glare of stone implacable face to face | E |
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| One who bade set them here | H |
| In stone austere | I |
| To both was dear and did not guess at all | J |
| Yet with her new wed lord | K |
| Walking the sward | K |
| Paused and for two dead friends a tear let fall | J |
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| She turn'd and went her way | L |
| Yet in the spray | L |
| The shining tear attempts but cannot lie | M |
| Night long the fountain drips | N |
| But even slips | N |
| Untold that one bead of her rosary | O |
| While they who know it would | P |
| Lie if it could | P |
| Lean on and hate watching it eye to eye | M |
Arthur Thomas Quiller-couch
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