Queen Mab: Part Iii. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Queen Mab: Part Iii. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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'Fairy ' the Spirit said	A
And on the Queen of Spells	B
Fixed her ethereal eyes	C
'I thank thee Thou hast given	D
A boon which I will not resign and taught	E
A lesson not to be unlearned I know	F
The past and thence I will essay to glean	G
A warning for the future so that man	H
May profit by his errors and derive	I
Experience from his folly	J
For when the power of imparting joy	K
Is equal to the will the human soul	L
Requires no other heaven '	M
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MAB	N
'Turn thee surpassing Spirit	O
Much yet remains unscanned	O
Thou knowest how great is man	H
Thou knowest his imbecility	O
Yet learn thou what he is	P
Yet learn the lofty destiny	J
Which restless Time prepares	Q
For every living soul	L
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'Behold a gorgeous palace that amid	O
Yon populous city rears its thousand towers	R
And seems itself a city Gloomy troops	S
Of sentinels in stern and silent ranks	T
Encompass it around the dweller there	U
Cannot be free and happy hearest thou not	O
The curses of the fatherless the groans	V
Of those who have no friend He passes on	W
The King the wearer of a gilded chain	X
That binds his soul to abjectness the fool	Y
Whom courtiers nickname monarch whilst a slave	Z
Even to the basest appetites that man	H
Heeds not the shriek of penury he smiles	A2
At the deep curses which the destitute	O
Mutter in secret and a sullen joy	K
Pervades his bloodless heart when thousands groan	B2
But for those morsels which his wantonness	A2
Wastes in unjoyous revelry to save	Z
All that they love from famine when he hears	A2
The tale of horror to some ready made face	A2
Of hypocritical assent he turns	A2
Smothering the glow of shame that spite of him	C2
Flushes his bloated cheek	D2
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Now to the meal	E2
Of silence grandeur and excess he drags	A2
His palled unwilling appetite If gold	O
Gleaming around and numerous viands culled	O
From every clime could force the loathing sense	A2
To overcome satiety if wealth	F2
The spring it draws from poisons not or vice	A2
Unfeeling stubborn vice converteth not	O
Its food to deadliest venom then that king	G2
Is happy and the peasant who fulfils	A2
His unforced task when he returns at even	H2
And by the blazing fagot meets again	I2
Her welcome for whom all his toil is sped	O
Tastes not a sweeter meal	E2
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Behold him now	J2
Stretched on the gorgeous couch his fevered brain	X
Reels dizzily awhile but ah too soon	K2
The slumber of intemperance subsides	A2
And conscience that undying serpent calls	A2
Her venomous brood to their nocturnal task	L2
Listen he speaks oh mark that frenzied eye	M2
Oh mark that deadly visage '	-
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KING	G2
'No cessation	D
Oh must this last forever Awful death	N2
I wish yet fear to clasp thee Not one moment	O
Of dreamless sleep O dear and bless d Peace	A2
Why dost thou shroud thy vestal purity	J
In penury and dungeons Wherefore lurkest	J
With danger death and solitude yet shun'st	J
The palace I have built thee Sacred Peace	A2
Oh visit me but once but pitying shed	J
One drop of balm upon my withered soul '	-
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THE FAIRY	J
'Vain man that palace is the virtuous heart	J
And Peace defileth not her snowy robes	A2
In such a shed as thine Hark yet he mutters	A2
His slumbers are but varied agonies	A2
They prey like scorpions on the springs of life	O2
There needeth not the hell that bigots frame	P2
To punish those who err earth in itself	Q2
Contains at once the evil and the cure	R2
And all sufficing Nature can chastise	A2
Those who transgress her law she only knows	A2
How justly to proportion to the fault	J
The punishment it merits	A2
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Is it strange	S2
That this poor wretch should pride him in his woe	F
Take pleasure in his abjectness and hug	T2
The scorpion that consumes him Is it strange	S2
That placed on a conspicuous throne of thorns	A2
Grasping an iron sceptre and immured	J
Within a splendid prison whose stern bounds	A2
Shut him from all that's good or dear on earth	U2
His soul asserts not its humanity	J
That man's mild nature rises not in war	V2
Against a king's employ No 'tis not strange	S2
He like the vulgar thinks feels acts and lives	A2
Just as his father did the unconquered powers	A2
Of precedent and custom interpose	A2
Between a king and virtue Stranger yet	J
To those who know not Nature nor deduce	A2
The future from the present it may seem	W2
That not one slave who suffers from the crimes	A2
Of this unnatural being not one wretch	X2
Whose children famish and whose nuptial bed	J
Is earth's unpitying bosom rears an arm	Y2
To dash him from his throne	B2
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Those gilded flies	A2
That basking in the sunshine of a court	J
Fatten on its corruption what are they	Z2
The drones of the community they feed	J
On the mechanic's labor the starved hind	J
For them compels the stubborn glebe to yield	J
Its unshared harvests and yon squalid form	A3
Leaner than fleshless misery that wastes	A2
A sunless life in the unwholesome mine	B3
Drags out in labor a protracted death	N2
To glut their grandeur many faint with toil	C3
That few may know the cares and woe of sloth	D3
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Whence thinkest thou kings and parasites arose	A2
Whence that unnatural line of drones who heap	E3
Toil and unvanquishable penury	J
On those who build their palaces and bring	G2
Their daily bread From vice black loathsome vice	A2
From rapine madness treachery and wrong	F3
From all that genders misery and makes	A2
Of earth this thorny wilderness from lust	J
Revenge and murder And when reason's voice	A2
Loud as the voice of Nature shall have waked	J
The nations and mankind perceive that vice	A2
Is discord war and misery that virtue	J
Is peace and happiness and harmony	J
When man's maturer nature shall disdain	X
The playthings of its childhood kingly glare	U
Will lose its power to dazzle its authority	J
Will silently pass by the gorgeous throne	B2
Shall stand unnoticed in the regal hall	G3
Fast falling to decay whilst falsehood's trade	J
Shall be as hateful and unprofitable	H3
As that of truth is now	J2
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Where is the fame	P2
Which the vain glorious mighty of the earth	U2
Seek to eternize Oh the faintest sound	J
From time's light footfall the minutest wave	Z
That swells the flood of ages whelms in nothing	G2
The unsubstantial bubble Ay to day	J
Stern is the tyrant's mandate red the gaze	A2
That flashes desolation strong the arm	Y2
That scatters multitudes To morrow comes	A2
That mandate is a thunder peal that died	J
In ages past that gaze a transient flash	X2
On which the midnight closed and on that arm	Y2
The worm has made his meal	E2
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The virtuous man	H
Who great in his humility as kings	A2
Are little in their grandeur he who leads	A2
Invincibly a life of resolute good	J
And stands amid the silent dungeon depths	A2
More free and fearless than the trembling judge	I3
Who clothed in venal power vainly strove	J3
To bind the impassive spirit when he falls	A2
His mild eye beams benevolence no more	V2
Withered the hand outstretched but to relieve	K3
Sunk reason's simple eloquence that rolled	J
But to appall the guilty Yes the grave	Z
Hath quenched that eye and death's relentless frost	J
Withered that arm but the unfading fame	P2
Which virtue hangs upon its votary's tomb	L3
The deathless memory of that man whom kings	A2
Call to their minds and tremble the remembrance	A2
With which the happy spirit contemplates	A2
Its well spent pilgrimage on earth	U2
Shall never pass away	J
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'Nature rejects the monarch not the man	H
The subject not the citizen for kings	A2
And subjects mutual foes forever play	J
A losing game into each other's hands	A2
Whose stakes are vice and misery The man	H
Of virtuous soul commands not nor obeys	A2
Power like a desolating pestilence	A2
Pollutes whate'er it touches and obedience	A2
Bane of all genius virtue freedom truth	M3
Makes slaves of men and of the human frame	P2
A mechanized automaton	W
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When Nero	F
High over flaming Rome with savage joy	K
Lowered like a fiend drank with enraptured ear	N3
The shrieks of agonizing death beheld	J
The frightful desolation spread and felt	J
A new created sense within his soul	L
Thrill to the sight and vibrate to the sound	J
Thinkest thou his grandeur had not overcome	O3
The force of human kindness And when Rome	P3
With one st	J