The Mirror Of Diana Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDD EFFEGG HFFHCC BIIBJJ KLMNOO APPAQQ GHHGRR STTSUU| Popular Name for Lake Nemi | A |
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| SHE floats into the quiet skies | B |
| Where in the circle of hills | C |
| Her immemorial mirror fills | C |
| With light as of a Virgin's eyes | B |
| When love a tremble in their blue | D |
| They glow twin violets dipped in dew | D |
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| Mild as a metaphor of Sleep | E |
| Immaculately maiden white | F |
| The Queen Moon of ancestral night | F |
| Beholds her image in the deep | E |
| As if a gaze she beams above | G |
| Lake Nemi's magic glass of love | G |
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| White rose white lily of the vale | H |
| Perfume the even breath of night | F |
| In many a burst of sweet delight | F |
| The love throb of the nightingale | H |
| Swells through lush flowering woods and fills | C |
| The circle of the listening hills | C |
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| White rose white lily of the skies | B |
| The Moon flower blossoms in the lake | I |
| The nightingale for her fair sake | I |
| With hopeless love's impassioned cries | B |
| Seems fain to sing till song must kill | J |
| Himself with one tumultuous trill | J |
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| And all the songs and all the scents | K |
| The light of glowworms and the fires | L |
| Of fire flies in the cypress spires | M |
| And all the wild wind instruments | N |
| Of pine and ilex as the breeze | O |
| Sweeps out their mystic harmonies | O |
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| All are but Messengers of May | A |
| To that white orb of maiden fire | P |
| Who fills the moth with mad desire | P |
| To die enamoured in her ray | A |
| And turns each dewdrop in the grass | Q |
| Into a fairy looking glass | Q |
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| O Beauty far and far above | G |
| The night moth and the nightingale | H |
| Far far above life's narrow pale | H |
| O Unattainable O Love | G |
| Even as the nightingale we cry | R |
| For some Ideal set on high | R |
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| Haunting the deep reflective mind | S |
| You may surprise its perfect Sphere | T |
| Glassed like the Moon within her mere | T |
| Who at a puff of alien wind | S |
| Melts in innumerable rings | U |
| Elusive in the flux of things | U |
Mathilde Blind
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