The Prince Imperial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDED FGHG IJKJ BGLG BGIG FMAM NNOO BBNN PPAA| Under the cross in the Southern skies | A |
| Where the beautiful night like a shadow lies | A |
| A fair young life went out in the light | B |
| To wake no more in the star crowned night | B |
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| Beautiful visions of life were his | C |
| Visions of triumph and fame | D |
| Longing for glory that he might be | E |
| Worthy to wear his name | D |
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| Brave was his heart as he sailed away | F |
| Under the Northern sky | G |
| Leaving behind him all that he loved | H |
| Stilling his heart's wild cry | G |
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| Proudly his mother with royal pride | I |
| Stifled her last regret | J |
| Steeling her heart but her dream was in vain | K |
| For the star of his race was set | J |
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| Surely the moon as he slept at night | B |
| Whispered his doom on high | G |
| Surely the waves in their rocky beds | L |
| Mourned as he passed them by | G |
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| For never again in the dusky night | B |
| Would the prince go sailing by | G |
| Weaving his dreams with a boyish pride | I |
| Under the shadowy sky | G |
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| Silent and cold in the morn he lay | F |
| Slain by a ruthless hand | M |
| Never to wake with his fearless eyes | A |
| Never again to command | M |
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| Imperial mother too well we know | N |
| The speechless depths of her awful woe | N |
| For the bright young life into Eternity hurled | O |
| Was her only like to a sad dark world | O |
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| But mothers kneel in the silent night | B |
| To whisper a prayer to the Throne of Light | B |
| For the beautiful woman whose head lies low | N |
| Crushed 'neath the weight of its crown of woe | N |
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| From sun to shadow her life has swayed | P |
| Like some wild rose in a mountain glade | P |
| But the storms have won and the blossom lies | A |
| Forever broken no more to rise | A |
Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
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