The Queen's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIJI KLKMNONO PQRQJSJA| Had I the power | A |
| To Midas given of old | B |
| To touch a flower | A |
| And leave the petals gold | B |
| I then might touch thy face | C |
| Delightful boy | D |
| And leave a metal grace | C |
| A graven joy | D |
| - | |
| Thus would I slay | E |
| Ah desperate device | F |
| The vital day | E |
| That trembles in thine eyes | G |
| And let the red lips close | H |
| Which sang so well | I |
| And drive away the rose | J |
| To leave a shell | I |
| - | |
| Then I myself | K |
| Rising austere and dumb | L |
| On the hight shelf | K |
| Of my half lighted room | M |
| Would place the shining bust | N |
| And wait alone | O |
| Until I was but dust | N |
| Buried unknown | O |
| - | |
| Thus in my love | P |
| For nations yet unborn | Q |
| I would remove | R |
| From our two lives the morn | Q |
| And muse on loveliness | J |
| In mine armchair | S |
| Content should Time confess | J |
| How sweet you were | A |
James Elroy Flecker
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