Queen Mab: Part I. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Queen Mab: Part I. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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HOW wonderful is Death	A
Death and his brother Sleep	B
One pale as yonder waning moon	C
With lips of lurid blue	D
The other rosy as the morn	E
When throned on ocean's wave	F
It blushes o'er the world	G
Yet both so passing wonderful	H
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Hath then the gloomy Power	I
Whose reign is in the tainted sepulchres	J
Seized on her sinless soul	K
Must then that peerless form	L
Which love and admiration cannot view	D
Without a beating heart those azure veins	J
Which steal like streams along a field of snow	M
That lovely outline which is fair	N
As breathing marble perish	O
Must putrefaction's breath	A
Leave nothing of this heavenly sight	P
But loathsomeness and ruin	Q
Spare nothing but a gloomy theme	R
On which the lightest heart might moralize	J
Or is it only a sweet slumber	I
Stealing o'er sensation	Q
Which the breath of roseate morning	S
Chaseth into darkness	J
Will Ianthe wake again	T
And give that faithful bosom joy	U
Whose sleepless spirit waits to catch	V
Light life and rapture from her smile	W
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Yes she will wake again	T
Although her glowing limbs are motionless	J
And silent those sweet lips	J
Once breathing eloquence	J
That might have soothed a tiger's rage	X
Or thawed the cold heart of a conqueror	I
Her dewy eyes are closed	Y
And on their lids whose texture fine	Z
Scarce hides the dark blue orbs beneath	A2
The baby Sleep is pillowed	Y
Her golden tresses shade	Y
The bosom's stainless pride	Y
Curling like tendrils of the parasite	Y
Around a marble column	B2
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Hark whence that rushing sound	Y
'T is like the wondrous strain	C2
That round a lonely ruin swells	J
Which wandering on the echoing shore	D2
The enthusiast hears at evening	S
'T is softer than the west wind's sigh	E2
'T is wilder than the unmeasured notes	J
Of that strange lyre whose strings	J
The genii of the breezes sweep	B
Those lines of rainbow light	Y
Are like the moonbeams when they fall	F2
Through some cathedral window but the tints	J
Are such as may not find	Y
Comparison on earth	G2
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Behold the chariot of the Fairy Queen	H2
Celestial coursers paw the unyielding air	N
Their filmy pennons at her word they furl	F2
And stop obedient to the reins of light	Y
These the Queen of Spells drew in	I2
She spread a charm around the spot	Y
And leaning graceful from the ethereal car	J2
Long did she gaze and silently	F2
Upon the slumbering maid	Y
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Oh not the visioned poet in his dreams	J
When silvery clouds float through the wildered brain	C2
When every sight of lovely wild and grand	Y
Astonishes enraptures elevates	J
When fancy at a glance combines	J
The wondrous and the beautiful	F2
So bright so fair so wild a shape	K2
Hath ever yet beheld	Y
As that which reined the coursers of the air	N
And poured the magic of her gaze	J
Upon the maiden's sleep	B
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The broad and yellow moon	C
Shone dimly through her form	L
That form of faultless symmetry	F2
The pearly and pellucid car	J2
Moved not the moonlight's line	Z
'T was not an earthly pageant	Y
Those who had looked upon the sight	Y
Passing all human glory	F2
Saw not the yellow moon	C
Saw not the mortal scene	H2
Heard not the night wind's rush	L2
Heard not an earthly sound	Y
Saw but the fairy pageant	Y
Heard but the heavenly strains	J
That filled the lonely dwelling	S
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The Fairy's frame was slight yon fibrous cloud	Y
That catches but the palest tinge of even	I2
And which the straining eye can hardly seize	J
When melting into eastern twilight's shadow	Y
Were scarce so thin so slight but the fair star	J2
That gems the glittering coronet of morn	E
Sheds not a light so mild so powerful	F2
As that which bursting from the Fairy's form	L
Spread a purpureal halo round the scene	H2
Yet with an undulating motion	Q
Swayed to her outline gracefully	F2
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From her celestial car	J2
The Fairy Queen descended	Y
And thrice she waved her wand	Y
Circled with wreaths of amaranth	M2
Her thin and misty form	L
Moved with the moving air	N
And the clear silver tones	J
As thus she spoke were such	N2
As are unheard by all but gifted ear	O2
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FAIRY	F2
'Stars your balmiest influence shed	Y
Elements your wrath suspend	Y
Sleep Ocean in the rocky bounds	J
That circle thy domain	C2
Let not a breath be seen to stir	I
Around yon grass grown ruin's height	Y
Let even the restless gossamer	I
Sleep on the moveless air	N
Soul of Ianthe thou	P2
Judged alone worthy of the envied boon	C
That waits the good and the sincere that waits	J
Those who have struggled and with resolute will	F2
Vanquished earth's pride and meanness burst the chains	J
The icy chains of custom and have shone	Q2
The day stars of their age Soul of	R2
Ianthe	S2
Awake arise '	-
	-
Sudden arose	J
Ianthe's Soul it stood	Y
All beautiful in naked purity	F2
The perfect semblance of its bodily frame	T2
Instinct with inexpressible beauty and grace	J
Each stain of earthliness	J
Had passed away it reassumed	Y
Its native dignity and stood	Y
Immortal amid ruin	Q
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Upon the couch the body lay	S2
Wrapt in the depth of slumber	I
Its features were fixed and meaningless	J
Yet animal life was there	N
And every organ yet performed	Y
Its natural functions 'twas a sight	Y
Of wonder to behold the body and the soul	F2
The self same lineaments the same	T2
Marks of identity were there	N
Yet oh how different One aspires to Heaven	Q
Pants for its sempiternal heritage	U2
And ever changing ever rising still	F2
Wantons in endless being	S
The other for a time the unwilling sport	Y
Of circumstance and passion struggles on	V2
Fleets through its sad duration rapidly	F2
Then like an useless and worn out machine	H2
Rots perishes and passes	J
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FAIRY	F2
'Spirit who hast dived so deep	B
Spirit who hast soared so high	E2
Thou the fearless thou the mild	Y
Accept the boon thy worth hath earned	Y
Ascend the car with me '	-
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SPIRIT	Y
'Do I dream Is this new feeling	S
But a visioned ghost of slumber	I
If indeed I am a soul	F2
A free a disembodied soul	F2
Speak again to me '	-
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FAIRY	F2
'I am the Fairy MAB to me 'tis given	Q
The wonders of the human world to keep	B
The secrets of the immeasurable past	Y
In the unfailing consciences of men	T
Those stern unflattering chroniclers I find	Y
The future from the causes which arise	J
In each event I gather not the sting	S
Which retributive memory implants	J
In the hard bosom of the selfish man	W2
Nor that ecstatic and exulting throb	X2
Which virtue's votary feels when he sums up	Y2
The thoughts and actions of a well spent day	S2
Are unforeseen unregistered by me	F2
And it is yet permitted me to rend	S2
The veil of mortal frailty that the spirit	S2
Clothed in its changeless purity may know	Y
How soonest to accomplish the great end	S2
For which it hath its being and may taste	S2
That peace which in the end all life will share	N
This is the meed of virtue happy Soul	F2
Ascend the car with me '	-
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The chains of earth's immurement	S2
Fell from Ianthe's spirit	S2
They shrank and brake like bandages of straw	Z2
Beneath a wakened giant's strength	A3
She knew her glorious change	B3
And felt in apprehension uncontrolled	S2
New raptures opening round	S2
Each day dream of her mortal life	C3
Each frenzied vision of the slumbers	J
That closed each well spent day	S2
Seemed now to meet reality	S2
The Fairy and the Soul proceeded	S2
The silver clouds disparted	S2
And as the car of magic they ascended	S2
Again the speechless music swelled	S2
Again the coursers of the air	N
Unfurled their azure pennons and the Queen	H2
Shaking the beamy reins	J
Bade them pursue their way	S2
	-
The magic car moved on	V2
The night was fair and countless stars	J
Studded heaven's dark blue vault	S2
Just o'er the eastern wave	F
Peeped the first faint smile of morn	E
The magic car moved on	V2
From the celestial hoofs	J
The atmosphere in flaming sparkles flew	F2
And where the burning wheels	J
Eddied above the mountain's loftiest peak	D3
Was traced a line of lightning	S
Now it flew far above a rock	E3
The utmost verge of earth	G2
The rival of the Andes whose dark brow	P2
Lowered o'er the silver sea	S2
	-
Far far below the chariot's path	F3
Calm as a slumbering babe	G3
Tremendous Ocean lay	S2
The mirror of its stillness showed	S2
The pale and waning stars	J
The chariot's fiery track	H3
And the gray light of morn	E
Tinging those fleecy clouds	J
That canopied the dawn	I3
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Seemed it that the chariot's way	S2
Lay through the midst of an immense concave	F
Radiant with million constellations tinged	S2
With shades of infinite color	I
An	W2