Queen Mab: Part Ii. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Queen Mab: Part Ii. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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If solitude hath ever led thy steps	A
To the wild ocean's echoing shore	B
And thou hast lingered there	C
Until the sun's broad orb	D
Seemed resting on the burnished wave	E
Thou must have marked the lines	F
Of purple gold that motionless	G
Hung o'er the sinking sphere	H
Thou must have marked the billowy clouds	I
Edged with intolerable radiancy	I
Towering like rocks of jet	J
Crowned with a diamond wreath	K
And yet there is a moment	L
When the sun's highest point	M
Peeps like a star o'er ocean's western edge	N
When those far clouds of feathery gold	O
Shaded with deepest purple gleam	P
Like islands on a dark blue sea	I
Then has thy fancy soared above the earth	Q
And furled its wearied wing	R
Within the Fairy's fane	S
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Yet not the golden islands	I
Gleaming in yon flood of light	T
Nor the feathery curtains	I
Stretching o'er the sun's bright couch	U
Nor the burnished ocean waves	I
Paving that gorgeous dome	V
So fair so wonderful a sight	T
As Mab's ethereal palace could afford	W
Yet likest evening's vault that fa ry Hall	X
As Heaven low resting on the wave it spread	Y
Its floors of flashing light	T
Its vast and azure dome	V
Its fertile golden islands	I
Floating on a silver sea	I
Whilst suns their mingling beamings darted	Z
Through clouds of circumambient darkness	I
And pearly battlements around	A2
Looked o'er the immense of Heaven	B2
	-
The magic car no longer moved	C2
The Fairy and the Spirit	D2
Entered the Hall of Spells	I
Those golden clouds	I
That rolled in glittering billows	I
Beneath the azure canopy	I
With the ethereal footsteps trembled not	E2
The light and crimson mists	I
Floating to strains of thrilling melody	I
Through that unearthly dwelling	R
Yielded to every movement of the will	F2
Upon their passive swell the Spirit leaned	G2
And for the varied bliss that pressed around	A2
Used not the glorious privilege	H2
Of virtue and of wisdom	I2
	-
'Spirit ' the Fairy said	Y
And pointed to the gorgeous dome	V
'This is a wondrous sight	T
And mocks all human grandeur	J2
But were it virtue's only meed to dwell	K2
In a celestial palace all resigned	L2
To pleasurable impulses immured	L2
Within the prison of itself the will	F2
Of changeless Nature would be unfulfilled	L2
Learn to make others happy Spirit come	I2
This is thine high reward the past shall rise	I
Thou shalt behold the present I will teach	M2
The secrets of the future '	-
	-
The Fairy and the Spirit	L2
Approached the overhanging battlement	L2
Below lay stretched the universe	I
There far as the remotest line	N2
That bounds imagination's flight	L2
Countless and unending orbs	I
In mazy motion intermingled	L2
Yet still fulfilled immutably	F2
Eternal Nature's law	F2
Above below around	L2
The circling systems formed	L2
A wilderness of harmony	I
Each with undeviating aim	O2
In eloquent silence through the depths of space	I
Pursued its wondrous way	P2
	-
There was a little light	L2
That twinkled in the misty distance	I
None but a spirit's eye	Q2
Might ken that rolling orb	D
None but a spirit's eye	Q2
And in no other place	I
But that celestial dwelling might behold	L2
Each action of this earth's inhabitants	I
But matter space and time	R2
In those a rial mansions cease to act	L2
And all prevailing wisdom when it reaps	I
The harvest of its excellence o'erbounds	I
Those obstacles of which an earthly soul	F2
Fears to attempt the conquest	L2
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The Fairy pointed to the earth	Q
The Spirit's intellectual eye	Q2
Its kindred beings recognized	L2
The thronging thousands to a passing view	S2
Seemed like an ant hill's citizens	I
How wonderful that even	T2
The passions prejudices interests	I
That sway the meanest being the weak touch	U2
That moves the finest nerve	V2
And in one human brain	S
Causes the faintest thought becomes a link	W2
In the great chain of Nature	X2
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'Behold ' the Fairy cried	L2
'Palmyra's ruined palaces	I
Behold where grandeur frowned	L2
Behold where pleasure smiled	L2
What now remains the memory	I
Of senselessness and shame	O2
What is immortal there	C
Nothing it stands to tell	F2
A melancholy tale to give	Y2
An awful warning soon	Z2
Oblivion will steal silently	I
The remnant of its fame	O2
Monarchs and conquerors there	C
Proud o'er prostrate millions trod	L2
The earthquakes of the human race	I
Like them forgotten when the ruin	B2
That marks their shock is past	L2
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'Beside the eternal Nile	F2
The Pyramids have risen	B2
Nile shall pursue his changeless way	P2
Those Pyramids shall fall	F2
Yea not a stone shall stand to tell	F2
The spot whereon they stood	L2
Their very site shall be forgotten	B2
As is their builder's name	O2
	-
'Behold yon sterile spot	L2
Where now the wandering Arab's tent	L2
Flaps in the desert blast	L2
There once old Salem's haughty fane	S
Reared high to heaven its thousand golden domes	I
And in the blushing face of day	P2
Exposed its shameful glory	I
Oh many a widow many an orphan cursed	L2
The building of that fane and many a father	X2
Worn out with toil and slavery implored	L2
The poor man's God to sweep it from the earth	Q
And spare his children the detested task	A3
Of piling stone on stone and poisoning	R
The choicest days of life	B3
To soothe a dotard's vanity	I
There an inhuman and uncultured race	I
Howled hideous praises to their Demon God	L2
They rushed to war tore from the mother's womb	C3
The unborn child old age and infancy	I
Promiscuous perished their victorious arms	I
Left not a soul to breathe Oh they were fiends	I
But what was he who taught them that the God	L2
Of Nature and benevolence had given	B2
A special sanction to the trade of blood	L2
His name and theirs are fading and the tales	I
Of this barbarian nation which imposture	X2
Recites till terror credits are pursuing	R
Itself into forgetfulness	I
	-
'Where Athens Rome and Sparta stood	L2
There is a moral desert now	D3
The mean and miserable huts	I
The yet more wretched palaces	I
Contrasted with those ancient fanes	I
Now crumbling to oblivion	B2
The long and lonely colonnades	I
Through which the ghost of Freedom stalks	I
Seem like a well known tune	Z2
Which in some dear scene we have loved to hear	X2
Remembered now in sadness	I
But oh how much more changed	L2
How gloomier is the contrast	L2
Of human nature there	X2
Where Socrates expired a tyrant's slave	E
A coward and a fool spreads death around	L2
Then shuddering meets his own	E3
Where Cicero and Antoninus lived	L2
A cowled and hypocritical monk	F3
Prays curses and deceives	I
	-
'Spirit ten thousand years	I
Have scarcely passed away	P2
Since in the waste where now the savage drinks	I
His enemy's blood and aping Europe's sons	I
Wakes the unholy song of war	X2
Arose a stately city	I
Metropolis of the western continent	L2
There now the mossy column stone	E3
Indented by time's unrelaxing grasp	G3
Which once appeared to brave	E
All save its country's ruin	B2
There the wide forest scene	H3
Rude in the uncultivated loveliness	I
Of gardens long run wild	L2
Seems to the unwilling sojourner whose steps	I
Chance in that desert has delayed	L2
Thus to have stood since earth was what it is	I
Yet once it was the busiest haunt	L2
Whither as to a common centre flocked	L2
Strangers and ships and merchandise	I
Once peace and freedom blest	L2
The cultivated plain	S
But wealth that curse of man	I3
Blighted the bud of its prosperity	I
Virtue and wisdom truth and liberty	I
Fled to return not until man shall know	J3
That they alone can give the bliss	I
Worthy a soul that claims	I
Its kindred with eternity	I
	-
'There 's not one atom of yon earth	Q
But once was living man	I3
Nor the minutest drop of rain	S
That hangeth in its thinnest cloud	L2
But flowed in human veins	I
And from the burning plains	I
Where Libyan monsters yell	F2
From the most gloomy glens	I
Of Greenland's sunless clime	C3
To where the golden fields	I
Of fertile England spread	L2
Their harvest to the day	P2
Thou canst not find one spot	L2
Whereon no city stood	L2
	-
'How strange is human pride	L2
I tell thee that those living things	I
To whom the fragile blade of grass	I
That springeth in the morn	K3
And perisheth ere noon	Z2
Is an unbounded world	L2
I tell thee that those viewless beings	I
Whose mansion is the smallest particle	F2
Of the impassive atmosphere	X2
Think feel and live like man	I3
That their affections and antipathies	I
Like his produce the laws	I
Ruling their moral state	L2
And the minutest throb	L3
That through their frame diffuses	I
The slightest faintest motion	B2
Is fixed and indispensabl	F2