The Blessed Damozel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEB FGHGIG JKLKJK KKMKKK KNCBKB OPQPRP SKKKTK UVWXYV KKZKA2K B2C2D2C2KC2 E2MKMF2M G2H2RWI2W KQJ2QK2Q L2QG2QQQ M2G2M2G2N2G2 J2KKKKK QG2QG2O2G2 KKKKBK KG2P2G2FG2 Q2R2M2R2S2R2 G2KKKT2K G2G2RG2D2G2 G2G2G2G2G2G2 U2KE2KKK

The blessed damozel leaned outA
From the gold bar of heavenB
Her eyes were deeper than the depthC
Of waters stilled at evenD
She had three lilies in her handE
And the stars in her hair were sevenB
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Her robe ungirt from clasp to hemF
No wrought flowers did adornG
But a white rose of Mary's giftH
For service meetly wornG
Her hair that lay along her backI
Was yellow like ripe cornG
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It seemed she scarce had been a dayJ
One of God's choristersK
The wonder was not yet quite goneL
From that still look of hersK
Albeit to them she left her dayJ
Had counted as ten yearsK
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To one it is ten years of yearsK
Yet now and in this placeK
Surely she leaned o'er me her hairM
Fell all about my faceK
Nothing the autumn fall of leavesK
The whole year sets apaceK
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It was the rampart of God's houseK
That she was standing onN
By God built over the sheer depthC
The which is Space begunB
So high that looking downward thenceK
She scarce could see the sunB
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It lies in heaven across the floodO
Of ether as a bridgeP
Beneath the tides of day and nightQ
With flame and darkness ridgeP
The void as low as where this earthR
Spins like a fretful midgeP
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Around her lovers newly metS
'Mid deathless love's acclaimsK
Spoke evermore among themselvesK
Their heart remembered namesK
And the souls mounting up to GodT
Went by her like thin flamesK
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And still she bowed herself and stoopedU
Out of the circling charmV
Until her bosom must have madeW
The bar she leaned on warmX
And the lilies lay as if asleepY
Along her bended armV
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From the fixed place of heaven she sawK
Time like a pulse shake fierceK
Through all the worlds Her gaze still stroveZ
Within the gulf to pierceK
Its path and now she spoke as whenA2
The stars sang in their spheresK
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The sun was gone now the curled moonB2
Was like a little featherC2
Fluttering far down the gulf and nowD2
She spoke through the still weatherC2
Her voice was like the voice the starsK
Had when they sang togetherC2
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Ah sweet Even now in that bird's songE2
Strove not her accents thereM
Fain to be harkened When those bellsK
Possessed the midday airM
Strove not her steps to reach my sideF2
Down all the echoing stairM
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I wish that he were come to meG2
For he will come she saidH2
Have I not prayed in heaven on earthR
Lord Lord has he not prayedW
Are not two prayers a perfect strengthI2
And shall I feel afraidW
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When round his head the aureole clingsK
And he is clothed in whiteQ
I'll take his hand and go with himJ2
To the deep wells of lightQ
As unto a stream we will step downK2
And bathe there in God's sightQ
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We two will stand beside that shrineL2
Occult withheld untrodQ
Whose lamps are stirred continuallyG2
With prayer sent up to GodQ
And see our old prayers granted meltQ
Each like a little cloudQ
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We two will lie i' the shadow ofM2
That living mystic treeG2
Within those secret growth the DoveM2
Is sometimes felt to beG2
While every leaf that His plumes touchN2
Saith His Name audiblyG2
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And I myself will teach to himJ2
I myself lying soK
The songs I sing here which his voiceK
Shall pause in hushed and slowK
And find some knowledge at each pauseK
Or some new thing to knowK
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Alas We two we two thou say'stQ
Yea one wast thou with meG2
That once of old But shall God liftQ
To endless unityG2
The soul whose likeness with thy soulO2
Was but its love for theeG2
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We two she said will seek the grovesK
Where the lady Mary isK
With her five handmaidens whose namesK
Are five sweet symphoniesK
Cecily Gertrude MagdalenB
Margaret and RosalysK
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Circlewise sit they with bound locksK
And foreheads garlandedG2
Into the fine cloth white like flameP2
Weaving the golden threadG2
To fashion the birth robes for themF
Who are just born being deadG2
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He shall fear haply and be dumbQ2
Then will I lay my cheekR2
To his and tell about our loveM2
Not once abashed or weakR2
And the dear Mother will approveS2
My pride and let me speakR2
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Herself shall bring us hand in handG2
To Him round whom all soulsK
Kneel the clear ranged unnumbered headsK
Bowed with their aureolesK
And angels meeting us shall singT2
To their citherns and citolesK
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There will I ask of Christ the LordG2
Thus much for him and meG2
Only to live as once on earthR
With Love only to beG2
As then awhile forever nowD2
Together I and heG2
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She gazed and listened and then saidG2
Less sad of speech than mildG2
All this is when he comes She ceasedG2
The light thrilled toward her filledG2
With angels in strong level flightG2
Her eyes prayed and she smil'dG2
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I saw her smile But soon their pathU2
Was vague in distant spheresK
And then she cast her arms alongE2
The golden barriersK
And laid her face between her handsK
And wept I heard her tearsK

Dante Gabriel Rossetti



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