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The Fairy Of The Fountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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WHY did she love her mother's so	A
It hath wrought her wondrous wo	A
	-
Once she saw an armed knight	B
In the pale sepulchral light	B
When the sullen starbeams throw	A
Evil spells on earth below	A
And the moon is cold and pale	C
And a voice is on the gale	C
Like a lost soul's heavenward cry	D
Hopeless in its agony	E
	-
He stood beside the castle gate	F
The hour was dark the hour was late	F
With the bearing of a king	G
Did he at the portal ring	G
And the loud and hollow bell	H
Sounded like a Christian's knell	H
That pale child stood on the wall	I
Watching there and saw it all	I
Then she was a child as fair	J
As the opening blossoms are	K
But with large black eyes whose light	B
Spoke of mystery and might	B
The stately stranger's head was bound	L
With a bright and golden round	L
Curiously inlaid each scale	C
Shone upon his glittering mail	C
His high brow was cold and dim	M
And she felt she hated him	M
Then she heard her mother's voice	N
Saying ' 'Tis not at my choice	N
'We for ever wo the hour	O
'When you sought my secret bower	O
'Listening to the word of fear	P
'Never meant for human ear	Q
'Thy suspicion's vain endeavour	O
'Wo wo parted us for ever '	-
	-
Still the porter of the hall	I
Heeded not that crown'd knight's call	I
When a glittering shape there came	R
With a brow of starry flame	R
And he led that knight again	S
O'er the bleak and barren plain	T
He flung with an appealing cry	D
His dark and desperate arms on high	D
And from Melusina's sight	B
Fled away through thickest night	B
Who has not when but a child	U
Treasured up some vision wild	U
Haunting them with nameless fear	P
Filling all they see or hear	Q
In the midnight's lonely hour	O
With a strange mysterious power	O
So a terror undefined	V
Entered in that infant mind	V
A fear that haunted her alone	W
For she told her thought to none	X
	-
Years passed on and each one threw	Y
O'er those walls a deeper hue	Y
Large and old the ivy leaves	Z
Heavy hung around the eaves	Z
Till the darksome rooms within	A2
Daylight never entered in	A2
And the spider's silvery line	B2
Was the only thing to shine	B2
Years past on the fair child now	C2
Wore maiden beauty on her brow	C2
Beauty such as rarely flowers	D2
In a fallen world like ours	D2
She was tall a queen might wear	J
Such a proud imperial air	J
She was tall yet when unbound	L
Swept her bright hair to the ground	L
Glittering like the gold you see	E
On a young laburnum tree	E
Yet her eyes were dark as night	B
Melancholy as moonlight	B
With the fierce and wilder ray	E2
Of a meteor on its ray	E2
Lonely was her childhood's time	F2
Lonelier was her maiden prime	F2
And she wearied of the hours	D2
Wasted in those gloomy towers	D2
Sometimes through the sunny sky	D
She would watch the swallows fly	D
Making of the air a bath	G2
In a thousand joyous rings	H2
She would ask of them their path	G2
She would ask of them their wings	H2
Once her stately mother came	R
With her dark eye's funeral flame	R
And her cheek as pale as death	I2
And her cold and whispering breath	I2
With her sable garments bound	L
By a mystic girdle round	L
Which when to the east she turned	J2
With a sudden lustre burned	J2
Once that ladye dark and tall	I
Stood upon the castle wall	I
And she marked her daughter's eyes	K2
Fix'd upon the glad sunrise	K2
With a sad yet eager look	L2
Such as fixes on a book	L2
Which describes some happy lot	M2
Lit with joys that we have not	M2
And the thought of what has been	A2
And the thought of what might be	E
Makes us crave the fancied scene	N2
And despise reality	E
'Twas a drear and desert plain	T
Lay around their own domain	T
But far off a world more fair	J
Outlined on the sunny air	J
Hung amid the purple clouds	O2
With which early morning shrouds	O2
All her blushes brief and bright	B
Waking up from sleep and night	B
In a voice so low and dread	P2
As a voice that wakes the dead	P2
Then that stately lady said	P2
'Daughter of a kingly line	B2
''Daughter too of race like mine	B2
'Such a kingdom had been thine	B2
'For thy father was a king	G
'Whom I wed with word and ring	G
'But in an unhappy hour	O
'Did he pass my secret bower	O
''Did he listen to the word	Q2
'Mortal ear hath never heard	Q2
'From that hour of grief and pain	T
'Might we never meet again	S
'Maiden listen to my rede	Q2
'Punished for thy father's deed	Q2
'Here an exile I must stay	Q2
'While he sees the light of day	Q2
	-
'Child his race is mixed in thee	E
'With mine own more high degree	E
'Hadst thou at Christ's altar stood	Q2
'Bathed in His redeeming flood	Q2
'Thou of my wild race had known	W
'But its loveliness alone	W
'Now thou hast a mingled dower	R2
'Human passion fairy power	O
'But forefend thee from the last	Q2
'Be its gifts behind thee cast	Q2
'Many tears will wash away	Q2
'Mortal sin from mortal clay	Q2
'Keep thou then a timid eye	D
'On the hopes that fill yon sky	D
'Bend thou with a suppliant knee	E
'And thy soul yet saved may be	E
''Saved by Him who died to save	S2
'Man from death beyond the grave '	-
	-
Easy 'tis advice to give	T2
Hard it is advice to take	U2
Years that lived and years to live	V2
Wide and weary difference make	U2
To that elder ladye's mood	Q2
Suited silent solitude	Q2
For her lorn heart's wasted soil	W2
Now repaid not hope's sweet toil	W2
Never more could spring flowers grow	A
On the worn out soil below	A
But to the young Melusine	E
Earth and heaven were yet divine	E
Still illusion's purple light	Q2
Was upon the morning tide	Q2
And there rose before her sight	Q2
The loveliness of life untried	Q2
Three sweet genii Youth Love Hope	X2
Drew her future horoscope	X2
	-
Must such lights themselves consume	Y2
Must she be her own dark tomb	Y2
But far other thoughts than these	Z2
Life's enchanted phantasies	Z2
Were with Melusina now	E
Stern and dark contracts her brow	E
And her bitten lip is white	Q2
As with passionate resolve	A3
Muttered she 'It is my right	Q2
'On me let the task devolve	A3
'Since such blood to me belongs	Z2
'It shall seek its own bright sphere	P
'I will well avenge the wrongs	Z2
'Of my mother exiled here '	-
	-
Two long years are come and past	Q2
And the maiden's lot is cast	Q2
Cast in mystery and power	O
Worked out by the watching hour	O
By the word that spirits tell	H
By the sign and by the spell	H
Two long years have come and gone	E
And the maiden dwells alone	E
For the deed which she hath done	E
Is she now a banished one	E
Banished from her mother's arms	Z2
Banished by her mother's charms	Z2
With a curse of grief and pain	E
Never more to meet again	E
Great was the revenge she wrought	Q2
Dearly that revenge was bought	Q2
	-
When the maiden felt her powers	Z2
Straight she sought her father's towers	Z2
With a sign and with a word	Q2
Passed she on unseen unheard	Q2
One a pallid minstrel born	E
On Good Friday's mystic morn	E
Said he saw a lady there	J
Tall and stately strange and lair	J
With a stern and glittering eye	D
Like a shadow gliding by	D
All was fear and awe next day	Q2
For the king had passed away	Q2
He had pledged his court at night	Q2
In the red grape's flowing light	Q2
All his pages saw him sleeping	G
Next day there was wail and weeping	G
Halls and lands were wandered o'er	O
But they saw their king no more	B3
Strange it is and sad to tell	H
What the royal knight befell	H
Far upon a desert land	Q2
Does a mighty mountain stand	Q2
	-
On its summit there is snow	E
While the bleak pines moan below	E
And within there is a cave	S2
Opened for a monarch's grave	S2
Bound in an enchanted sleep	C3
She hath laid him still and deep	C3
She his only child has made	Q2
That strange tomb where he is laid	Q2
Nothing more of earth to know	E
Till the final trumpet blow	E
Mortal lip nor mortal ear	Q
Were not made to speak nor hear	Q
That accursed word which sealed	Q2
All those gloomy depths concealed	Q2
With a look of joy and pride	Q2
Then she sought her mother's side	Q2
Whispering on her bended knee	E
'Oh my mother joyous be	E
	-
'For the mountain torrents spring	G
'O'er that faithless knight and king '	-
Not another word she spoke	D3
For her speech a wild shriek broke	D3
For the widowed queen upsprung	D3
Wild her pale thin hands she wrung	D3
With her black hair falling round	Q2
Flung her desperate on the ground	Q2
While young Melusine stood by	D
With a fixed and fearful eye	D
When her agony was past	Q2
Slowly rose the queen at last	Q2
With her black hair like a shroud	Q2
And her	O