La Beale Isoud Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEFEGHIHJKLLL A MLMLAHAHLNOPO A HQHRLLLLHHSHSHHHHQ S RLRLJAJAHLSLSTHTHU S VWVXLYLYZA2B2A2B2LLL LSC2D2C2D2SWSWA2 A B2LB2LE2HE2HSF2LF2LL G2LG2SI | A |
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With bloodshot eyes the morning rose | B |
Upon a world of gloom and tears | C |
A kindred glance queen Isoud shows | B |
Come night come morn cease not her fears | D |
The fog clouds whiten all the vale | E |
The sunlight draws them to its love | F |
The diamond dews wash ev'ry dale | E |
Where bays the hunt within the grove | G |
Her lute the one her touch he taught | H |
To wake beneath the stars a song | I |
Of swan caught music is as naught | H |
And on yon damask lounge is flung | J |
Down o'er her cheeks her hair she draws | K |
In golden rays 'twixt lily tips | L |
And gazes sad on gloomy shaws | L |
'Neath which had often touched their lips | L |
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II | A |
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With irised eyes from morn to noon | M |
And noon to middle night she stoops | L |
From her high lattice 'neath the moon | M |
Hoping to see him 'mid the groups | L |
Of mail swathed braves come jingling by | A |
And once there came a dame in weft | H |
All pearl besprent as when the sky | A |
A springtide day hath wept and left | H |
A stormy eve one flash of gems | L |
'Mid neatherds he's a naked waif | N |
Unwitted said she lipping scorn | O |
And shook deep curls with a weak laugh | P |
Tib clinked the gold thick in them worn | O |
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III | A |
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How long to wait and far she bent | H |
From her tall casement toward the lawn | Q |
A prospect of a wide extent | H |
Glassed in her eyes and hateful shown | R |
Along the white lake windy crags | L |
Blue with coarse brakes and ragged pines | L |
A bandit keep with trembling flags | L |
And barren scars and waste marsh lines | L |
And now a palfried dame and knight | H |
Deep deer behaunted forests old | H |
Whose sinewy boughs dark blocked the cave | S |
Of Heav'n o'er Earth a blasted hold | H |
'Mid livid fields a torrent's wave | S |
And o'er the bridge whose marble arched | H |
The torrent's foam dim in the dew | H |
Of morning one all glimmering marched | H |
In glittering steel from helm to shoe | H |
With lance whose fang smote back the dawn | Q |
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IV | S |
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Selled on a barb whose trappings shone | R |
Red brass a morning star of jousts | L |
Upon the dawning beaming lone | R |
Burst from the hills' empurpled crusts | L |
A lying star whose double tongue | J |
Was slave to gold I saw him die | A |
'Tis ruth for he was brave and young | J |
I saw him in the close clay lie | A |
Then passed he rattling from the court | H |
So grief in furrows ploughed her front's | L |
Smooth surface wan and toward the eve | S |
The bloodshot eve upon the mounts | L |
Who o'er day's flow'ry bier did grieve | S |
And bow her melancholy star | T |
O'er teenful eyes she bent the light | H |
Of her crown crescent's gem and far | T |
She lingered till the full mooned night | H |
Showered ripple stars the gray mere o'er | U |
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V | S |
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And I'm like her who trims a flame | V |
Of sickly color bowing low | W |
To balk the wind in wanton game | V |
One stoops in secret toward her brow | X |
With wind bulged cheeks a quick breath sends | L |
And then the world is blind with gloom | Y |
And filled with phantoms and with fiends | L |
That strain huge eyes and jibe her doom | Y |
Thus thought Isoud in her despair | Z |
Of Launcelot then thoughts grew on | A2 |
And Arthur's lovely queen away | B2 |
In castled courts of Caerleon | A2 |
And all their joy and dalliance gay | B2 |
Until she could have thawed the spars | L |
Of her clear fountained eyes to tears | L |
And gush wild grief long seared by wars | L |
Of passionate anguish and great fears | L |
Oh Tristram gone oh death in life | S |
Soft down below in the thick dark | C2 |
A fountain throbbed monotonous foam | D2 |
Unseen within the starlit park | C2 |
Deep in the tower's shadowed dome | D2 |
And thus my heart drums frigid life | S |
In hateful gloom of fear and woe | W |
One flood of sorrow cataract rife | S |
My full flush heart streams come and go | W |
Since Tristram's gone and I'm alone | A2 |
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VI | A |
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Then sunk the moon and far away | B2 |
Beside the bickering lake the towers | L |
Of bandit braves shone tall and gray | B2 |
Like specters in her lonely hours | L |
And 'twixt the nodding grove and lake | E2 |
A glimmering fawn stalked thro' the night | H |
And with full brow the musks did take | E2 |
Then bowed to drink she veiled her sight | H |
And moaning said Death is but life | S |
The fawn 'mid lilies from the mere | F2 |
Sucks genial draughts to dull its thirsts | L |
O fondest spirit art thou near | F2 |
Draw to thy soul this soul that bursts | L |
The vivid lilies to the stars | L |
Clasp their white eyes and sink to sleep | G2 |
O anguish to thy burning wars | L |
Lock my sad heart and drag it deep | G2 |
Albeit she slept she dreamed in grief | S |
Madison Julius Cawein
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