The Mistress Of Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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IA
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Secret was the gardenB
Set i' the pathless aweC
Where no star its breath can drawD
Life that is its wardenB
Sits behind the fosse of death Mine eyes saw notE
and I sawD
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IIA
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It was a mazeful wonderF
Thrice three times it was enwalledE
With an emeraldE
Seal ed so asunderF
All its birds in middle air hung a dream theirG
music thralledE
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IIIA
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The Lady of fair weepingH
At the garden's coreI
Sang a song of sweet and soreI
And the after sleepingH
In the land of Luthany and the tracts of ElenoreF
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IV-
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With sweet panged singingH
Sang she through a dream night's dayE
That the bowers might stayE
Birds bate their wingingH
Nor the wall of emerald float in wreath ed haze awayE
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V-
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The lily kept its gleamingH
In her tears divine conserversD
Wash ed with sad artE
And the flowers of dreamingH
Pal ed not their fervoursD
For her blood flowed through their nervuresD
And the roses were most red for she dipt them inJ
her heartE
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VI-
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There was never moonK
Save the white sufficing womanB
Light most heavenly humanB
Like the unseen form of soundE
Sensed invisibly in tuneK
With a sun deriv ed stoleL
Did inaureoleL
All her lovely body roundE
Lovelily her lucid body with that light was interF
strewnK
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VII-
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The sun which lit that garden whollyL
Low and vibrant visibleL
Tempered glory wokeM
And it seem ed solelyL
Like a silver thuribleL
Solemnly swung slowlyL
Fuming clouds of golden fire for a cloud of incenseD
smokeM
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VIII-
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But woe's me and woe's meL
For the secrets of her eyesD
In my visions fearfullyL
They are ever shown to beL
As fring ed pools whereof each liesD
Pallid dark beneath the skiesD
Of a night that isD
But one blear necropolisD
And her eyes a little tremble in the wind of herF
own sighsD
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IXD
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Many changes rise onN
Their phantasmal mysteriesD
They grow to an horizonB
Where earth and heaven meetE
And like a wing that dies onN
The vague twilight vergesD
Many a sinking dream doth fleetE
Lessening down their secreciesD
And as dusk with day convergesD
Their orbs are troublouslyL
Over gloomed and over glowed with hope and fearO
of things to beL
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XD
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There is a peak on HimalayL
And on the peak undeluged snowP
And on the snow not eagles strayE
There if your strong feet could goP
Looking over tow'rd CathayE
From the never deluged snowP
Farthest ken might not surveyE
Where the peoples underground dwell whomQ
antique fables knowP
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XIL
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East ah east of HimalayL
Dwell the nations undergroundE
Hiding from the shock of DayE
For the sun's uprising soundE
Dare not issue from the groundE
At the tumults of the DayE
So fearfully the sun doth soundE
Clanging up beyond CathayE
For the great earthquaking sunrise rolling upR
beyond CathayE
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XIIL
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Lend me O lend meL
The terrors of that soundE
That its music may attend meL
Wrap my chant in thunders roundE
While I tell the ancient secrets in that Lady'sL
singing foundE
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XIIIL
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On Ararat there grew a vineS
When Asia from her bathing roseL
Our first sailor made a twineS
Thereof for his prefiguring browsL
Canst divineS
Where upon our dusty earth of that vine a clusterF
growsL
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XIVE
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On Golgotha there grew a thornT
Round the long prefigured BrowsL
Mourn O mournT
For the vine have we the spine Is this all theU
Heaven allowsL
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XVE
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On Calvary was shook a spearO
Press the point into thy heartE
Joy and fearO
All the spines upon the thorn into curling tendrilsL
startE
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XVIE
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O dismayE
I a wingless mortal sportingH
With the tresses of the sunB
I that dare my hand to layE
On the thunder in its snortingH
Ere begunB
Falls my singed song down the sky even the oldE
Icarian wayE
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XVIIE
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From the fall precipitantE
These dim snatches of her chantE
Only have remain ed mineS
That from spear and thorn aloneV
May be grownV
For the front of saint or singer any divinizing twineS
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XVIIIE
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Her song said that no springingH
Paradise but evermoreI
Hangeth on a singingH
That has chords of weepingH
And that sings the after sleepingH
To souls which wake too soreI
'But woe the singer woe ' she said 'beyond theU
dead his singing loreI
All its art of sweet and soreI
He learns in Elenore '-
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XIXL
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Where is the land of LuthanyS
Where is the tract of ElenoreF
I am bound thereforF
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XXL
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'Pierce thy heart to find the keyL
With thee takeW
Only what none else would keepX
Learn to dream when thou dost wakeW
Learn to wake when thou dost sleepX
Learn to water joy with tearsL
Learn from fears to vanquish fearsL
To hope for thou dar'st not despairF
Exult for that thou dar'st not grieveE
Plough thou the rock until it bearF
Know for thou else couldst not believeE
Lose that the lost thou may'st receiveE
Die for none other way canst liveE
When earth and heaven lay down their veilL
And that apocalypse turns thee paleL
When thy seeing blindeth theeL
To what thy fellow mortals seeL
When their sight to thee is sightlessL
Their living death their light most lightE
lessL
Search no moreF
Pass the gates of Luthany tread the region Elenore '-
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XXIL
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Where is the land of LuthanyS
And where the region ElenoreF
I do faint thereforF
'When to the new eyes of theeL
All things by immortal powerF
Near or farF
HiddenlyL
To each other link ed areF
That thou canst not stir a flowerF
Without troubling of a starF
When thy song is shield and mirrorF
To the fair snake curl ed PainS
Where thou dar'st affront her terrorF
That on her thou may'st attainS
Persean conquest seek no moreF
O seek no moreF
Pass the gates of Luthany tread the region Elenore '-
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XXIIL
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So sang she so wept sheL
Through a dream night's dayE
And with her magic singing kept sheL
Mystical in musicY
That garden of enchantingH
In visionary MayE
Swayless for my spirit's hauntingH
Thrice threefold walled with emerald from our morF
tal mornings greyE
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XXIIIL
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And as a necromancerF
Raises from the rose ashZ
The ghost of the roseL
My heart so made answerF
To her voice's silver plashZ
Stirred in reddening flashZ
And from out its mortal ruins the purpureal phantomA2
blowsL
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XXIVE
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Her tears made dulcet frettingH
Her voice had no wordE
More than thunder or the birdE
Yet unforgettingH
The ravished soul her meanings knew Mine earsL
heard not and I heardE
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XXVE
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When she shall unwindE
All those wiles she wound about meL
Tears shall break from out meL
That I cannot findE
Music in the holy poets to my wistful want I doubtE
meL

Francis Thompson



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