A Prologue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFDDGGHHII HHHHJJHHKKLLCCWhile to the clarion blown by Marlowe's breath | A |
Tall Tragedy tramped by in hues of death | A |
And Shakespeare yet was tuning string by string | B |
With English hawthorn crowned in that glad spring | B |
When bright clouds melted in a sky serene | C |
Romance moved lightly to the pipe of Greene | C |
As fresh as buds half open pure as dew | D |
Two damsels came in forefront of her crew | D |
One native to the hedgerows and the meads | E |
The keeper's lass in simple country weeds | E |
Her firm white arms as delicate as silk | F |
Below her smock sleeve shining wet with milk | F |
No marvel the young noble learnt to woo | D |
A maid so merry and frank and homely true | D |
The other with sad mien though yet a bride | G |
Clad in man's raiment softly stole aside | G |
And grieved that he who should have been her stay | H |
Would privily have done her life away | H |
For still his crime with bloodshot eyeballs grim | I |
And dripping fangs turned back and hunted him | I |
Cast off contemned and hated stabbed discrowned | H |
Still in her heart wide realm for him she found | H |
When earth and love and joy seemed to his hand | H |
Gripped madly a waning measure of slipping sand | H |
Though lust and murder made of him a slave | J |
Her love set free her purity forgave | J |
Humbled and hopeless all his sins confessed | H |
By miracle his contrite soul was blessed | H |
And heavy tolling of those haunted days | K |
Was turned to golden peals of joyous praise | K |
Ah but this woeful lady lily pale | L |
Is no mere vision drifting through a tale | L |
The sad sweet picture of the patient Queen | C |
Betrays the rebel heart of Robert Greene | C |
John Le Gay Brereton
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