The Two Masks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD CECEDFDG| Melpomene among her livid people | A |
| Ere stroke of lyre upon Thaleia looks | B |
| Warned by old contests that one museful ripple | A |
| Along those lips of rose with tendril hooks | B |
| Forebodes disturbance in the springs of pathos | C |
| Perchance may change of masks midway demand | D |
| Albeit the man rise mountainous as Athos | C |
| The woman wild as Cape Leucadia stand | D |
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| For this the Comic Muse exacts of creatures | C |
| Appealing to the fount of tears that they | E |
| Strive never to outleap our human features | C |
| And do Right Reason's ordinance obey | E |
| In peril of the hum to laughter nighest | D |
| But prove they under stress of action's fire | F |
| Nobleness to that test of Reason highest | D |
| She bows she waves them for the loftier lyre | G |
George Meredith
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