Nature And Art Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEEDFF FGGFFGGFHIJHIJTO MY FRIEND CHARLES BOOTH NETTLETON | A |
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The young queen Nature ever sweet and fair | B |
Once on a time fell upon evil days | C |
From hearing oft herself discussed with praise | C |
There grew within her heart the longing rare | B |
To see herself and every passing air | B |
The warm desire fanned into lusty blaze | C |
Full oft she sought this end by devious ways | C |
But sought in vain so fell she in despair | B |
For none within her train nor by her side | D |
Could solve the task or give the envied boon | E |
So day and night beneath the sun and moon | E |
She wandered to and fro unsatisfied | D |
Till Art came by a blithe inventive elf | F |
And made a glass wherein she saw herself | F |
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Enrapt the queen gazed on her glorious self | F |
Then trembling with the thrill of sudden thought | G |
Commanded that the skilful wight be brought | G |
That she might dower him with lands and pelf | F |
Then out upon the silent sea lapt shelf | F |
And up the hills and on the downs they sought | G |
Him who so well and wondrously had wrought | G |
And with much search found and brought home the elf | F |
But he put by all gifts with sad replies | H |
And from his lips these words flowed forth like wine | I |
O queen I want no gift but thee he said | J |
She heard and looked on him with love lit eyes | H |
Gave him her hand low murmuring I am thine | I |
And at the morrow's dawning they were wed | J |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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