Helen Of Tyre Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDB EEFGGF HHIJJI KKLMNL OOPQQQ RRSTTS QQQUUQ| What phantom is this that appears | A |
| Through the purple mist of the years | A |
| Itself but a mist like these | B |
| A woman of cloud and of fire | C |
| It is she it is Helen of Tyre | D |
| The town in the midst of the seas | B |
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| O Tyre in thy crowded streets | E |
| The phantom appears and retreats | E |
| And the Israelites that sell | F |
| Thy lilies and lions of brass | G |
| Look up as they see her pass | G |
| And murmur Jezebel | F |
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| Then another phantom is seen | H |
| At her side in a gray gabardine | H |
| With beard that floats to his waist | I |
| It is Simon Magus the Seer | J |
| He speaks and she pauses to hear | J |
| The words he utters in haste | I |
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| He says From this evil fame | K |
| From this life of sorrow and shame | K |
| I will lift thee and make thee mine | L |
| Thou hast been Queen Candace | M |
| And Helen of Troy and shalt be | N |
| The Intelligence Divine | L |
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| Oh sweet as the breath of morn | O |
| To the fallen and forlorn | O |
| Are whispered words of praise | P |
| For the famished heart believes | Q |
| The falsehood that tempts and deceives | Q |
| And the promise that betrays | Q |
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| So she follows from land to land | R |
| The wizard's beckoning hand | R |
| As a leaf is blown by the gust | S |
| Till she vanishes into night | T |
| O reader stoop down and write | T |
| With thy finger in the dust | S |
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| O town in the midst of the seas | Q |
| With thy rafts of cedar trees | Q |
| Thy merchandise and thy ships | Q |
| Thou too art become as naught | U |
| A phantom a shadow a thought | U |
| A name upon men's lips | Q |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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