Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKG MNMN OPOP QRQR STST RURU RARA RRRR| Thus have I pictured her In Arden old | A |
| A white browed maiden with a falcon eye | B |
| Rose flushed of face with locks of wind blown gold | A |
| Teaching her hawks to fly | B |
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| Or 'mid her boar hounds panting with the heat | C |
| In huntsman green sounding the hunt's wild prize | D |
| Plumed dagger belted while beneath her feet | C |
| The spear pierced monster dies | D |
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| Or in Breceliand on some high tower | E |
| Clad white in samite last of her lost race | F |
| My soul beholds her lovelier than a flower | E |
| Gazing with pensive face | F |
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| Or robed in raiment of romantic lore | G |
| Like Oriana dark of eye and hair | H |
| Riding through realms of legend evermore | G |
| And ever young and fair | H |
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| Or now like Bradamant as brave as just | I |
| In complete steel her pure face lit with scorn | J |
| At giant castles dens of demon lust | I |
| Winding her bugle horn | J |
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| Another Una and in chastity | K |
| A second Britomart in beauty far | L |
| O'er her who led King Charles's chivalry | K |
| And Paynim lands to war | G |
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| Now she from Avalon's deep dingled bowers | M |
| 'Mid which white stars and never waning moons | N |
| Make marriage and dim lips of musk mouthed flowers | M |
| Sigh faint and fragrant tunes | N |
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| Implores me follow and in shadowy shapes | O |
| Of sunset shows me mile on misty mile | P |
| Of purple precipice all the haunted capes | O |
| Of her enchanted isle | P |
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| Where bowered in bosks and overgrown with vine | Q |
| Upon a headland breasting violet seas | R |
| Her castle towers like a dream divine | Q |
| With stairs and galleries | R |
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| And at her casement Circe beautiful | S |
| Above the surgeless reaches of the deep | T |
| She sits while in her gardens fountains lull | S |
| The perfumed wind asleep | T |
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| Or round her brow a diadem of spars | R |
| She leans and hearkens from her raven height | U |
| The nightingales that choiring to the stars | R |
| Take with wild song the night | U |
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| Or where the moon is mirrored in the waves | R |
| To mark deep down the Sea King's city rolled | A |
| Wrought of huge shells and labyrinthine caves | R |
| Ribbed pale with pearl and gold | A |
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| There doth she wait forever and the kings | R |
| Of all the world have wooed her but she cares | R |
| For none but him the Love that dreams and sings | R |
| That sings and dreams and dares | R |
Madison Julius Cawein
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