The Mistress Of Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBED A FEEFGE A HIIHF HEEHE HDEHDDJE KBBEKLLEFK LLMLLLDM LDLLDDDDFD D NDBENDEDDLOL D LPEPEPEQP L LEEEEEEERE L LELELE L SLSLSFL E TLTUL E OEOLE E EHBEHBEE E EESVVS E HIHHHIUII L SFF L LWXWXLLFEFEEELLLLLEL F L SFFLFFLFFFFSFSFF L LELYHEHFE L FZLFZZA2L E HEEHLE E ELLEELI | A |
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Secret was the garden | B |
Set i' the pathless awe | C |
Where no star its breath can draw | D |
Life that is its warden | B |
Sits behind the fosse of death Mine eyes saw not | E |
and I saw | D |
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II | A |
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It was a mazeful wonder | F |
Thrice three times it was enwalled | E |
With an emerald | E |
Seal ed so asunder | F |
All its birds in middle air hung a dream their | G |
music thralled | E |
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III | A |
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The Lady of fair weeping | H |
At the garden's core | I |
Sang a song of sweet and sore | I |
And the after sleeping | H |
In the land of Luthany and the tracts of Elenore | F |
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IV | - |
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With sweet panged singing | H |
Sang she through a dream night's day | E |
That the bowers might stay | E |
Birds bate their winging | H |
Nor the wall of emerald float in wreath ed haze away | E |
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V | - |
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The lily kept its gleaming | H |
In her tears divine conservers | D |
Wash ed with sad art | E |
And the flowers of dreaming | H |
Pal ed not their fervours | D |
For her blood flowed through their nervures | D |
And the roses were most red for she dipt them in | J |
her heart | E |
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VI | - |
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There was never moon | K |
Save the white sufficing woman | B |
Light most heavenly human | B |
Like the unseen form of sound | E |
Sensed invisibly in tune | K |
With a sun deriv ed stole | L |
Did inaureole | L |
All her lovely body round | E |
Lovelily her lucid body with that light was inter | F |
strewn | K |
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VII | - |
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The sun which lit that garden wholly | L |
Low and vibrant visible | L |
Tempered glory woke | M |
And it seem ed solely | L |
Like a silver thurible | L |
Solemnly swung slowly | L |
Fuming clouds of golden fire for a cloud of incense | D |
smoke | M |
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VIII | - |
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But woe's me and woe's me | L |
For the secrets of her eyes | D |
In my visions fearfully | L |
They are ever shown to be | L |
As fring ed pools whereof each lies | D |
Pallid dark beneath the skies | D |
Of a night that is | D |
But one blear necropolis | D |
And her eyes a little tremble in the wind of her | F |
own sighs | D |
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IX | D |
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Many changes rise on | N |
Their phantasmal mysteries | D |
They grow to an horizon | B |
Where earth and heaven meet | E |
And like a wing that dies on | N |
The vague twilight verges | D |
Many a sinking dream doth fleet | E |
Lessening down their secrecies | D |
And as dusk with day converges | D |
Their orbs are troublously | L |
Over gloomed and over glowed with hope and fear | O |
of things to be | L |
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X | D |
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There is a peak on Himalay | L |
And on the peak undeluged snow | P |
And on the snow not eagles stray | E |
There if your strong feet could go | P |
Looking over tow'rd Cathay | E |
From the never deluged snow | P |
Farthest ken might not survey | E |
Where the peoples underground dwell whom | Q |
antique fables know | P |
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XI | L |
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East ah east of Himalay | L |
Dwell the nations underground | E |
Hiding from the shock of Day | E |
For the sun's uprising sound | E |
Dare not issue from the ground | E |
At the tumults of the Day | E |
So fearfully the sun doth sound | E |
Clanging up beyond Cathay | E |
For the great earthquaking sunrise rolling up | R |
beyond Cathay | E |
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XII | L |
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Lend me O lend me | L |
The terrors of that sound | E |
That its music may attend me | L |
Wrap my chant in thunders round | E |
While I tell the ancient secrets in that Lady's | L |
singing found | E |
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XIII | L |
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On Ararat there grew a vine | S |
When Asia from her bathing rose | L |
Our first sailor made a twine | S |
Thereof for his prefiguring brows | L |
Canst divine | S |
Where upon our dusty earth of that vine a cluster | F |
grows | L |
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XIV | E |
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On Golgotha there grew a thorn | T |
Round the long prefigured Brows | L |
Mourn O mourn | T |
For the vine have we the spine Is this all the | U |
Heaven allows | L |
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XV | E |
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On Calvary was shook a spear | O |
Press the point into thy heart | E |
Joy and fear | O |
All the spines upon the thorn into curling tendrils | L |
start | E |
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XVI | E |
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O dismay | E |
I a wingless mortal sporting | H |
With the tresses of the sun | B |
I that dare my hand to lay | E |
On the thunder in its snorting | H |
Ere begun | B |
Falls my singed song down the sky even the old | E |
Icarian way | E |
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XVII | E |
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From the fall precipitant | E |
These dim snatches of her chant | E |
Only have remain ed mine | S |
That from spear and thorn alone | V |
May be grown | V |
For the front of saint or singer any divinizing twine | S |
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XVIII | E |
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Her song said that no springing | H |
Paradise but evermore | I |
Hangeth on a singing | H |
That has chords of weeping | H |
And that sings the after sleeping | H |
To souls which wake too sore | I |
'But woe the singer woe ' she said 'beyond the | U |
dead his singing lore | I |
All its art of sweet and sore | I |
He learns in Elenore ' | - |
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XIX | L |
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Where is the land of Luthany | S |
Where is the tract of Elenore | F |
I am bound therefor | F |
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XX | L |
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'Pierce thy heart to find the key | L |
With thee take | W |
Only what none else would keep | X |
Learn to dream when thou dost wake | W |
Learn to wake when thou dost sleep | X |
Learn to water joy with tears | L |
Learn from fears to vanquish fears | L |
To hope for thou dar'st not despair | F |
Exult for that thou dar'st not grieve | E |
Plough thou the rock until it bear | F |
Know for thou else couldst not believe | E |
Lose that the lost thou may'st receive | E |
Die for none other way canst live | E |
When earth and heaven lay down their veil | L |
And that apocalypse turns thee pale | L |
When thy seeing blindeth thee | L |
To what thy fellow mortals see | L |
When their sight to thee is sightless | L |
Their living death their light most light | E |
less | L |
Search no more | F |
Pass the gates of Luthany tread the region Elenore ' | - |
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XXI | L |
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Where is the land of Luthany | S |
And where the region Elenore | F |
I do faint therefor | F |
'When to the new eyes of thee | L |
All things by immortal power | F |
Near or far | F |
Hiddenly | L |
To each other link ed are | F |
That thou canst not stir a flower | F |
Without troubling of a star | F |
When thy song is shield and mirror | F |
To the fair snake curl ed Pain | S |
Where thou dar'st affront her terror | F |
That on her thou may'st attain | S |
Persean conquest seek no more | F |
O seek no more | F |
Pass the gates of Luthany tread the region Elenore ' | - |
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XXII | L |
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So sang she so wept she | L |
Through a dream night's day | E |
And with her magic singing kept she | L |
Mystical in music | Y |
That garden of enchanting | H |
In visionary May | E |
Swayless for my spirit's haunting | H |
Thrice threefold walled with emerald from our mor | F |
tal mornings grey | E |
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XXIII | L |
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And as a necromancer | F |
Raises from the rose ash | Z |
The ghost of the rose | L |
My heart so made answer | F |
To her voice's silver plash | Z |
Stirred in reddening flash | Z |
And from out its mortal ruins the purpureal phantom | A2 |
blows | L |
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XXIV | E |
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Her tears made dulcet fretting | H |
Her voice had no word | E |
More than thunder or the bird | E |
Yet unforgetting | H |
The ravished soul her meanings knew Mine ears | L |
heard not and I heard | E |
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XXV | E |
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When she shall unwind | E |
All those wiles she wound about me | L |
Tears shall break from out me | L |
That I cannot find | E |
Music in the holy poets to my wistful want I doubt | E |
me | L |
Francis Thompson
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