Mirage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCC A DEDFF A GHGHH I GJGKJ G BLBLL I MNMNN I OPQPP I RSRSS R MTMTT R BRBRR R MUMUU R BRBRR| I | A |
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| 'Tis a legend of a lover | B |
| 'Tis a ballad to be sung | C |
| In the gloaming under cover | B |
| By a minstrel who is young | C |
| By a singer who has passion and who sways us with his tongue | C |
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| II | A |
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| I who know it think upon it | D |
| Not unhappy tho' in tears | E |
| And I gather in a sonnet | D |
| All the glory of the years | F |
| And I kiss and clasp a shadow when the substance disappears | F |
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| III | A |
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| Ah I see her as she faced me | G |
| In the sinless summer days | H |
| When her little hands embraced me | G |
| And I saddened at her gaze | H |
| Thinking Sweet One will she love me when we walk in other ways | H |
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| IV | I |
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| Will she cling to me as kindly | G |
| When the childish faith is lost | J |
| Will she pray for me as blindly | G |
| Or but weigh the wish and cost | K |
| Looking back on our lost Eden from the girlhood she has cross'd | J |
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| V | G |
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| Oh I swear by all I honour | B |
| By the graves that I endow | L |
| By the grace I set upon her | B |
| That I meant the early vow | L |
| Meant it much as men and women mean the same thing spoken now | L |
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| VI | I |
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| But her maiden troth is broken | M |
| And her mind is ill at ease | N |
| And she sends me back no token | M |
| From her home beyond the seas | N |
| And I know though nought is spoken that she thanks me on her knees | N |
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| VII | I |
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| Yes for pardon freely granted | O |
| For she wrong'd me understand | P |
| And my life is disenchanted | Q |
| As I wander through the land | P |
| With the sorrows of dark morrows that await me in a band | P |
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| VIII | I |
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| Hers was sweetest of sweet faces | R |
| Hers the tenderest eyes of all | S |
| In her hair she had the traces | R |
| Of a heavenly coronal | S |
| Bringing sunshine to sad places where the sunlight could not fall | S |
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| IX | R |
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| She was fairer than a vision | M |
| Like a vision too has flown | T |
| I who flushed at her decision | M |
| Lo I languish here alone | T |
| And I tremble when I tell you that my anger was mine own | T |
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| X | R |
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| Not for her sweet sainted creature | B |
| Could I curse her to her face | R |
| Could I look on form and feature | B |
| And deny the inner grace | R |
| Like a little wax Madonna she was holy in the place | R |
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| XI | R |
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| And I told her in mad fashion | M |
| That I loved her would incline | U |
| All my life to this one passion | M |
| And would kneel as at a shrine | U |
| And would love her late and early and would teach her to be mine | U |
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| XII | R |
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| Now in dreams alone I meet her | B |
| With my lowly human praise | R |
| She is sweeter and completer | B |
| And she smiles on me always | R |
| But I dare not rise and greet her as I did in early days | R |
Eric Mackay
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