A Prologue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFDDGGHHII HHHHJJHHKKLLCC

While to the clarion blown by Marlowe's breathA
Tall Tragedy tramped by in hues of deathA
And Shakespeare yet was tuning string by stringB
With English hawthorn crowned in that glad springB
When bright clouds melted in a sky sereneC
Romance moved lightly to the pipe of GreeneC
As fresh as buds half open pure as dewD
Two damsels came in forefront of her crewD
One native to the hedgerows and the meadsE
The keeper's lass in simple country weedsE
Her firm white arms as delicate as silkF
Below her smock sleeve shining wet with milkF
No marvel the young noble learnt to wooD
A maid so merry and frank and homely trueD
The other with sad mien though yet a brideG
Clad in man's raiment softly stole asideG
And grieved that he who should have been her stayH
Would privily have done her life awayH
For still his crime with bloodshot eyeballs grimI
And dripping fangs turned back and hunted himI
Cast off contemned and hated stabbed discrownedH
Still in her heart wide realm for him she foundH
When earth and love and joy seemed to his handH
Gripped madly a waning measure of slipping sandH
Though lust and murder made of him a slaveJ
Her love set free her purity forgaveJ
Humbled and hopeless all his sins confessedH
By miracle his contrite soul was blessedH
And heavy tolling of those haunted daysK
Was turned to golden peals of joyous praiseK
Ah but this woeful lady lily paleL
Is no mere vision drifting through a taleL
The sad sweet picture of the patient QueenC
Betrays the rebel heart of Robert GreeneC

John Le Gay Brereton



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