My Castle In Spain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEBCBB FFGFHGHHG IJIJKJLIIII MINFFMIOBOOBB JIIJPIPIEPPIEI PQQPRISSIRPPPP| There was never a castle seen | A |
| So fair as mine in Spain | B |
| It stands embowered in green | A |
| Crowning the gentle slope | C |
| Of a hill by the Xenil's shore | D |
| And at eve its shade flaunts o'er | E |
| The storied Vega plain | B |
| And its towers are hid in the mists of Hope | C |
| And I toil through years of pain | B |
| Its glimmering gates to gain | B |
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| In visions wild and sweet | F |
| Sometimes its courts I greet | F |
| Sometimes in joy its shining halls | G |
| I tread with favoured feet | F |
| But never my eyes in the light of day | H |
| Were blest with its ivied walls | G |
| Where the marble white and the granite gray | H |
| Turn gold alike when the sunbeams play | H |
| When the soft day dimly falls | G |
| - | |
| I know in its dusky rooms | I |
| Are treasures rich and rare | J |
| The spoil of Eastern looms | I |
| And whatever of bright and fair | J |
| Painters divine have caught and won | K |
| From the vault of Italy's air | J |
| White gods in Phidian stone | L |
| People the haunted glooms | I |
| And the song of immortal singers | I |
| Like a fragrant memory lingers | I |
| I know in the echoing rooms | I |
| - | |
| But nothing of these my soul | M |
| Nor castle nor treasures nor skies | I |
| Nor the waves of the river that roil | N |
| With a cadence faint and sweet | F |
| In peace by its marble feet | F |
| Nothing of these is the goal | M |
| For which my whole heart sighs | I |
| 'Tis the pearl gives worth to the shell | O |
| The pearl I would die to gain | B |
| For there does my lady dwell | O |
| My love that I love so well | O |
| The Queen whose gracious reign | B |
| Makes glad my castle in Spain | B |
| - | |
| Her face so pure and fair | J |
| Sheds light in the shady places | I |
| And the spell of her girlish graces | I |
| Holds charmed the happy air | J |
| A breath of purity | P |
| For ever before her flies | I |
| And ill things cease to be | P |
| In the glance of her honest eyes | I |
| Around her pathway flutter | E |
| Where her dear feet wander free | P |
| In youth's pure majesty | P |
| The wings of the vague desires | I |
| But the thought that love would utter | E |
| In reverence expires | I |
| - | |
| Not yet not yet shall I see | P |
| That face which shines like a star | Q |
| O'er my storm swept life afar | Q |
| Transfigured with love for me | P |
| Toiling forgetting and learning | R |
| With labour and vigils and prayers | I |
| Pure heart and resolute will | S |
| At last I shall climb the hill | S |
| And breathe the enchanted airs | I |
| Where the light of my life is burning | R |
| Most lovely and fair and free | P |
| Where alone in her youth and beauty | P |
| And bound by her fate's sweet duty | P |
| Unconscious she waits for me | P |
John Milton Hay
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