Nature And Art: To My Friend Charles Booth Nettleton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEEDFF A FGGFFGGFHIJHIJ| I | 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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| II | A |
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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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