The Ideal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LLLL MNMN OPQP RDRD SFSF DLDL DLDL DIDI| Thee have I seen in some waste Arden old | A |
| A white browed maiden by a foaming stream | B |
| With eyes profound and looks like threaded gold | A |
| And features like a dream | B |
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| Upon thy wrist the jessied falcon fleet | C |
| A silver poniard chased with imageries | D |
| Hung at a buckled belt while at thy feet | C |
| The gasping heron dies | E |
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| Have fancied thee in some quaint ruined keep | F |
| A maiden in chaste samite and her mien | G |
| Like that of loved ones visiting our sleep | F |
| Or of a fairy queen | G |
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| She where the cushioned ivy dangling hoar | H |
| Disturbs the quiet of her sable hair | I |
| Pores o'er a volume of romantic lore | H |
| Or hums an olden air | I |
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| Or a fair Bradamant both brave and just | J |
| Intense with steel her proud face lit with scorn | K |
| At heathen castles demons' dens of lust | J |
| Winding her bugle horn | K |
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| Just as stern Artegal in chastity | L |
| A second Britomart in hardihood | L |
| Like him who 'mid King Charles' chivalry | L |
| A pillared sunbeam stood | L |
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| Or one in Avalon's deep dingled bowers | M |
| On which old yellow stars and waneless moons | N |
| Look softly while white downy lipp d flowers | M |
| Lisp faint and fragrant tunes | N |
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| Where haze like creatures with smooth houri forms | O |
| Stoop thro' the curling clouds and float and smile | P |
| While calm as hope in all her dreamy charms | Q |
| Sleeps the enchanted isle | P |
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| And where cool heavy bow'rs unstirred entwine | R |
| Upon a headland breasting purple seas | D |
| A crystal castle like a thought divine | R |
| Rises in mysteries | D |
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| And there a sorceress full beautiful | S |
| Looks down the surgeless reaches of the deep | F |
| And bubbling from her lily throat songs lull | S |
| The languid air to sleep | F |
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| About her brow a diadem of spars | D |
| At her fair casement seated fleecy white | L |
| Heark'ning wild sirens choiring to the stars | D |
| Thro' all the raven night | L |
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| And when she bends above the glow lit waves | D |
| She sees the sea king's templed city old | L |
| Wrought from huge shells and labyrinthine caves | D |
| Ribbed red with rusty gold | L |
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| But nor the sirens' nor the ocean king's | D |
| Love will she heed but still sits yearning there | I |
| To have the secret bird that vaguely sings | D |
| Her aching heart to share | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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