Mazelli: Canto Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Mazelli: Canto Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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With plumes to which the dewdrops cling	B
Wide waves the morn her golden wing	B
With countless variegated beams	C
The empurpled orient glows and gleams	C
A gorgeous mass of crimson clouds	D
The mountain's soaring summit shrouds	D
Along the wave the blue mist creeps	E
The towering forest trees are stirred	F
By the low wind that o'er them sweeps	E
And with the matin song of bird	F
The hum of early bee is heard	F
Hailing with his shrill tiny horn	G
The coming of the bright eyed morn	G
And with the day beam's earliest dawn	H
Her couch the fair Mazelli quits	I
And gaily fleetly as a fawn	H
Along the wildwood paths she flits	I
Hieing from leafy bower to bower	J
Culling from each its bud and flower	J
Of brightest hue and sweetest breath	K
To weave them in her bridal wreath	L
Now pausing in her way to hear	M
The lay of some wild warbler near	N
Repaying him in mocking tone	O
With music sweeter than his own	O
Now o'er some crystal stream low bending	B
Her image in its waves to see	I
With its sweet gurgled music blending	B
A song of tenfold melody	I
Now chasing the gay butterfly	A
That o'er her pathway passed her by	A
With grace as careless glee as wild	P
As though she were some thoughtless child	P
Now seated on some wayside stone	O
With time's green messy veil o'ergrown	O
In silent thoughtfulness she seems	I
To hold communion with her heart	Q
Beguiling fancy with the dreams	I
That from its Pure recesses start	Q
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II	A
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There is a silent power that o'er	J
Our bosoms wields a wizard might	R
Restoring bygone years to light	R
With the same vivid glow they wore	S
Ere time had o'er their features cast	T
The shadowy shroud that veils the past	T
To those who walk in wisdom's way	U
'Tis welcome as an angel's smile	V
But those who from her counsels stray	U
Whose hearts are full of craft and guile	V
To them 'tis as a constant goad	W
A weight that doubles Sorrow's load	W
A silent searcher of the breast	X
Which will not let the guilty rest	X
In childhood's pleasant season born	O
It haunts us in all after time	Y
From youth's serene and sunny morn	O
To manhood's stern meridian prime	Y
From manhood till the weight of years	I
And life's dull constant toil and tears	I
And passion's ever raging storm	Z
Have dimmed the eye and bowed the form	Z
True youth of hope and love possessed	X
By friends youth has no foes caressed	X
Finds in the present happy boy	A2
Enough of gaiety and joy	A2
And man whose visionary brain	O
Begets that idle phantom train	O
Of shadows Power Wealth and Fame	B2
A scourge a bubble and a name	B2
So often and so vainly sought	C2
Has little time for peaceful thought	C2
And so they turn not back to gaze	I
Where faithful memory displays	I
Her record of departed days	I
But oh how loves the eye of age	D2
To move along its pictured page	D2
To scan and number o'er and o'er	J
The joys that may return no more	S
The hopes that blighted in their bloom	E2
By disappointment's chilly gloom	E2
Were given sadly to the tomb	E2
The loves so wildly once enjoyed	F2
By time's unsparing hand destroyed	F2
The bright imaginative dreams	I
Portrayed by restless fancy's beams	I
By restless fancy's beams portrayed	G2
Alas but to delude and fade	G2
To count these o'er and o'er again	O
Is age's sole resort from pain	O
Then stranger marvel not that I	A
Have claimed so long thy listening ear	M
I could not pass in silence by	A
Themes to my memory so dear	N
As those which make my story's close	I
Mazelli's love Mazelli's woes	I
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III	A
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Ascending from the golden east	H2
The sun had gained his zenith height	R
The guests were gathered to the feast	H2
Prepared to grace the marriage rite	R
The youthful and the old were there	I2
The rustic swain and bashful fair	I2
The aged reverend and gray	U
Yet hale and garrulous and gay	U
Each told to while the time away	U
Some tale of his own wedding day	U
The youthful timorous and shy	A
Spoke less with lip than tell tale eye	A
That in its stolen glances sends	I
The language Love best comprehends	I
The noontide hour goes by and yet	J2
The bridegroom tarries why and where	I2
Sure he could not his vows forget	J2
When she who loves him is so fair	I2
And then his honour faith and pride	K2
Had bound him to a meaner bride	K2
If once his promise had been given	O
But she so pure so far above	L2
The common forms of earthly mould	M2
So like the incarnate shapes of love	L2
Conceived and born and nursed in heaven	O
His love for her could ne'er grow cold	M2
And yet he comes not Half way now	O
From where at his meridian height	R
He pours his fullest warmest light	R
To where at eve in his decline	O
The day god sinks into the brine	O
When his diurnal task is done	O
Descends his ever burning throne	O
And still the bridegroom is not there	I2
Say why yet tarries he and where	I2
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IV	L2
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Within an arbour rudely reared	N2
But to the maiden's heart endeared	O2
By every tie that binds the heart	Q
By hope's and love's and memory's art	Q
For it was here he first poured out	P2
In words the love she could not doubt	P2
Mazelli silent sits apart	Q
Did ever dreaming devotee	I
Whose restless fancy fond and warm	Z
Shapes out the bright ideal form	Z
To which he meekly bends the knee	I
Conceive of aught so fair as she	I
The holiest seraph of the sphere	N
Most holy if by chance led here	M
Might drink such light from those soft eyes	I
That he would hold them far more dear	N
Than all the treasures of the skies	I
Yet o'er her bright and beauteous brow	O
Shade after shade is passing now	O
Like clouds across the pale moon glancing	B
As thought on rapid thought advancing	B
Thrills through the maiden's trembling breast	X
Not doubting and yet not at rest	X
Not doubting Man may turn away	U
And scoff at shrines where yesterday	U
He knelt in earnest faith to pray	U
And wealth may lose its charm for him	Q2
And fame's alluring star grow dim	Q2
Devotion avarice glory all	R2
The pageantries of earth may pall	S2
But love is of a higher birth	T2
Than these the earth born things of earth	T2
A spark from the eternal flame	B2
Like it eternally the same	B2
It is not subject to the breath	K
Of chance or change of life or death	K
And so doubt has no power to blight	R
Its bloom or quench its deathless light	R
A deathless light a peerless bloom	E2
That beams and glows beyond the tomb	E2
Go tell the trusting devotee	I
His worship is idolatry	I
Say to the searcher after gold	M2
The prize he seeks is dull and cold	M2
Assure the toiler after fame	B2
That won 'tis but a worthless name	B2
A mocking shade a phantasy	I
And they perchance may list to thee	I
But say not to the trusting maid	G2
Her love is scorned her faith betrayed	G2
As soon thy words may lull the gale	U2
As gain her credence to the tale	U2
And still the bridegroom is not there	I2
Oh why yet tarries he and where	I2
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V	I
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It was the holy vesper hour	J
The time for rest and peace and prayer	I2
When falls the dew and folds the flower	J
Its petals delicate and fair	I2
Against the chilly evening air	I2
And yet the bridegroom was not there	I2
The guests who lingered through the day	U
Had glided one by one away	U
And then with pale and pensive ray	U
The moon began to climb the sky	A
As from the forest dim and green	O
A small and silent band was seen	O
Emerging slow and solemnly	I
With cautious step and measured tread	V2
They moved as those who bear the dead	V2
And by no lip a word was spoke	W2
Nor other sound the silence broke	W2
Save when low musical and clear	N
The voice of waters passing near	N
Was softly wafted to the ear	M
And the cool fanning twilight breeze	I
That lightly shook the forest trees	I
And crept from leaf to trembling leaf	L2
Sighed like to one oppressed with grief	L2
Why move they with such cautious care	I2
What precious burden do they bear	I2
Hush questioner the dead are there	I2
The victim of revenge and hate	X2
Of fierce Ottali's fiery pride	K2
With that stern minister of fate	X2
As cold and lifeless by his side	K2
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VI	A
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Still onward solemnly and slow	Y2
And speaking not a word they go	Y2
Till pausing in their way before	S
Mazelli's quiet cottage door	S
They gently lay their burden down	O
Whence comes that shriek of wild despair	I2
That rises wildly on the air	I2
Whose is the arm so fondly thrown	O
Around the cold unconscious clay	U
That cannot its caress repay	U
Such wordless wo was in that cry	A
Such pain such hopeless agony	I
No soul excluded from the sky	A
Whom unrelenting justice hath	Z2
Condemned to bear the second death	K
E'er breathed upon the troubled gale	U2
A wilder or a sadder wail	U2
It rose all other sounds above	L2
The dirge of peace and hope and love	L2
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VII	L2
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And day on weary day went by	A
And like the drooping autumn leaf	L2
She faded slow and silently	I
In her deep uncomplaining grief	L2
For sick of life's vacuity	K2
She neither sought nor wished relief	L2
And daily from her cheek the glow	Y2
Departed and her virgin brow	O
Was curtained with a mournful gloom	E2
A shade prophetic of the tomb	E2
And her clear eyes so blue and bright	K2
Shot forth a keen unearthly light	K2
As if the soul that in them lay	U
Were weary of its garb of clay	U
And prayed to pass from earth away	U
Nor was that prayer vain for ere	I2
The frozen monarch of the year	N
Had blighted with his icy breath	K
A single bud in summer's wreath	L
They shrouded her and made her grave	L2
And laid her down at Lodolph's side	K2
And by the wide Potomac's wave	L2
Repose the bridegroom and the bride	K2
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'Tis said that oft at summer midnight there	I2
When all is hushed and voiceless and the air	I2
Sweet soothing minstrel of the viewless hand	K2
Swells rippling through the aged trees that stand	K2
With their broad boughs above the wave depending	B
With the low gurgle of the waters blending	B
The rustle of their foliage a light boat	K2
Bearing two shadowy forms is seen to float	K2
Adown the stream without or oar or sail	U2
To break the wave or catch the driving gale	U2
Smoothly and steadily its course is steered	K2
Until the shadow of yon cliff is neared	K2
And then as if some barrier hid below	Y2
The river's breast had caught its gliding prow	O
Awhile uncertain o'er its watery bed	K2
It hangs then vanishes and in its stead	K2
A wan pale light burns dimly o'er the wave	L2
That rolls and ripples by Mazelli's grave	L2