To A Beautiful Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDD EAFDGDD HIJKDLM NODPDD QRST LUJUVWXYPZ| SURELY dame Nature made you in some dream | A |
| Of old world women Chriemhild or bright | B |
| Aslauga or Boadicea fierce and fair | C |
| Or Berengaria as she rose her lips | D |
| Yet ruddy from the poison that anoints | D |
| Her memory still the queen of queenly wives | D |
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| I marvel who will crown you wife you grand | E |
| And goodly creature who will mount supreme | A |
| The empty chariot of your maiden heart | F |
| Curb the strong will that leaps and foams and chafes | D |
| Still masterless and guide you safely home | G |
| Unto the golden gate where quiet sits | D |
| Grave Matronhood with gracious loving eyes | D |
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| What eyes you have you wild gazelle o' the plain | H |
| You fierce hind of the forest now they flash | I |
| Now glow now in their own dark down dropt shade | J |
| Conceal themselves a moment as some thought | K |
| Too brief to be a feeling flits across | D |
| The April cloudland of your careless soul | L |
| There that light laugh and 't is full sun full day | M |
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| Would I could paint you line by line ere Time | N |
| Touches the gorgeous picture your ripe mouth | O |
| Your white arched throat your stature like to Saul's | D |
| Among his brethren yet so fitly framed | P |
| In such harmonious symmetry we say | D |
| As of a cedar among common trees | D |
| Never 'How tall ' but only 'O how fair ' | - |
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| Who made you fair moulded you in the shape | Q |
| That poets dream of sent you forth to men | R |
| His caligraph inscribed on every curve | S |
| Of your brave form | T |
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| Is it written on your soul | L |
| I know not | U |
| Woman upon whom is laid | J |
| Heaven's own sign manual Beauty mock heaven not | U |
| Reverence thy loveliness the outward type | V |
| Of things we understand not nor behold | W |
| But as in a glass darkly wear it thou | X |
| With awful gladness grave humility | Y |
| That not contemns nor boasts nor is ashamed | P |
| But lifts its face up prayerfully to heaven | Z |
| 'Thou who hast made me make me worthy Thee ' | - |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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