Queen Mab: Part Iv. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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'How beautiful this night the balmiest sigh	A
Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear	B
Were discord to the speaking quietude	C
That wraps this moveless scene Heaven's ebon vault	C
Studded with stars unutterably bright	C
Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls	D
Seems like a canopy which love had spread	C
To curtain her sleeping world Yon gentle hills	E
Robed in a garment of untrodden snow	F
Yon darksome rocks whence icicles depend	C
So stainless that their white and glittering spires	G
Tinge not the moon's pure beam yon castled steep	H
Whose banner hangeth o'er the time worn tower	I
So idly that rapt fancy deemeth it	C
A metaphor of peace all form a scene	J
Where musing solitude might love to lift	C
Her soul above this sphere of earthliness	G
Where silence undisturbed might watch alone	K
So cold so bright so still	L
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The orb of day	C
In southern climes o'er ocean's waveless field	C
Sinks sweetly smiling not the faintest breath	M
Steals o'er the unruffled deep the clouds of eve	N
Reflect unmoved the lingering beam of day	C
And Vesper's image on the western main	O
Is beautifully still To morrow comes	G
Cloud upon cloud in dark and deepening mass	G
Roll o'er the blackened waters the deep roar	P
Of distant thunder mutters awfully	Q
Tempest unfolds its pinion o'er the gloom	R
That shrouds the boiling surge the pitiless fiend	C
With all his winds and lightnings tracks his prey	C
The torn deep yawns the vessel finds a grave	S
Beneath its jagged gulf	T
	-
Ah whence yon glare	U
That fires the arch of heaven that dark red smoke	V
Blotting the silver moon The stars are quenched	C
In darkness and the pure and spangling snow	F
Gleams faintly through the gloom that gathers round	C
Hark to that roar whose swift and deafening peals	G
In countless echoes through the mountains ring	W
Startling pale Midnight on her starry throne	K
Now swells the intermingling din the jar	X
Frequent and frightful of the bursting bomb	Y
The falling beam the shriek the groan the shout	C
The ceaseless clangor and the rush of men	Z
Inebriate with rage loud and more loud	C
The discord grows till pale Death shuts the scene	J
And o'er the conqueror and the conquered draws	G
His cold and bloody shroud Of all the men	Z
Whom day's departing beam saw blooming there	U
In proud and vigorous health of all the hearts	G
That beat with anxious life at sunset there	U
How few survive how few are beating now	A2
All is deep silence like the fearful calm	Y
That slumbers in the storm's portentous pause	G
Save when the frantic wail of widowed love	B2
Comes shuddering on the blast or the faint moan	K
With which some soul bursts from the frame of clay	C
Wrapt round its struggling powers	G
	-
The gray morn	C2
Dawns on the mournful scene the sulphurous smoke	V
Before the icy wind slow rolls away	C
And the bright beams of frosty morning dance	G
Along the spangling snow There tracks of blood	C
Even to the forest's depth and scattered arms	G
And lifeless warriors whose hard lineaments	G
Death's self could change not mark the dreadful path	D2
Of the outsallying victors far behind	C
Black ashes note where their proud city stood	C
Within yon forest is a gloomy glen	Z
Each tree which guards its darkness from the day	C
Waves o'er a warrior's tomb	R
	-
I see thee shrink	E2
Surpassing Spirit wert thou human else	G
I see a shade of doubt and horror fleet	C
Across thy stainless features yet fear not	C
This is no unconnected misery	Q
Nor stands uncaused and irretrievable	C
Man's evil nature that apology	Q
Which kings who rule and cowards who crouch set up	F2
For their unnumbered crimes sheds not the blood	C
Which desolates the discord wasted land	C
From kings and priests and statesmen war arose	G
Whose safety is man's deep unbettered woe	F
Whose grandeur his debasement Let the axe	G
Strike at the root the poison tree will fall	C
And where its venomed exhalations spread	C
Ruin and death and woe where millions lay	C
Quenching the serpent's famine and their bones	G
Bleaching unburied in the putrid blast	C
A garden shall arise in loveliness	G
Surpassing fabled Eden	G2
	-
Hath Nature's soul	C
That formed this world so beautiful that spread	C
Earth's lap with plenty and life's smallest chord	C
Strung to unchanging unison that gave	S
The happy birds their dwelling in the grove	H2
That yielded to the wanderers of the deep	H
The lovely silence of the unfathomed main	O
And filled the meanest worm that crawls in dust	C
With spirit thought and love on Man alone	K
Partial in causeless malice wantonly	Q
Heaped ruin vice and slavery his soul	C
Blasted with withering curses placed afar	X
The meteor happiness that shuns his grasp	I2
But serving on the frightful gulf to glare	U
Rent wide beneath his footsteps	G
	-
Nature no	F
Kings priests and statesmen blast the human flower	I
Even in its tender bud their influence darts	G
Like subtle poison through the bloodless veins	G
Of desolate society The child	C
Ere he can lisp his mother's sacred name	J2
Swells with the unnatural pride of crime and lifts	G
His baby sword even in a hero's mood	C
This infant arm becomes the bloodiest scourge	K2
Of devastated earth whilst specious names	G
Learnt in soft childhood's unsuspecting hour	I
Serve as the sophisms with which manhood dims	G
Bright reason's ray and sanctifies the sword	C
Upraised to shed a brother's innocent blood	C
Let priest led slaves cease to proclaim that man	L2
Inherits vice and misery when force	G
And falsehood hang even o'er the cradled babe	M2
Stifling with rudest grasp all natural good	C
	-
'Ah to the stranger soul when first it peeps	G
From its new tenement and looks abroad	C
For happiness and sympathy how stern	N2
And desolate a tract is this wide world	C
How withered all the buds of natural good	C
No shade no shelter from the sweeping storms	G
Of pitiless power On its wretched frame	J2
Poisoned perchance by the disease and woe	F
Heaped on the wretched parent whence it sprung	O2
By morals law and custom the pure winds	G
Of heaven that renovate the insect tribes	G
May breathe not The untainting light of day	C
May visit not its longings It is bound	C
Ere it has life yea all the chains are forged	C
Long ere its being all liberty and love	B2
And peace is torn from its defencelessness	G
Cursed from its birth even from its cradle doomed	C
To abjectness and bondage	P2
	-
'Throughout this varied and eternal world	C
Soul is the only element the block	Q2
That for uncounted ages has remained	C
The moveless pillar of a mountain's weight	C
Is active living spirit Every grain	O
Is sentient both in unity and part	C
And the minutest atom comprehends	G
A world of loves and hatreds these beget	C
Evil and good hence truth and falsehood spring	W
Hence will and thought and action all the germs	G
Of pain or pleasure sympathy or hate	C
That variegate the eternal universe	G
Soul is not more polluted than the beams	G
Of heaven's pure orb ere round their rapid lines	G
The taint of earth born atmospheres arise	G
	-
'Man is of soul and body formed for deeds	G
Of high resolve on fancy's boldest wing	W
To soar unwearied fearlessly to turn	N2
The keenest pangs to peacefulness and taste	C
The joys which mingled sense and spirit yield	C
Or he is formed for abjectness and woe	F
To grovel on the dunghill of his fears	G
To shrink at every sound to quench the flame	J2
Of natural love in sensualism to know	F
That hour as blest when on his worthless days	G
The frozen hand of death shall set its seal	C
Yet fear the cure though hating the disease	G
The one is man that shall hereafter be	Q
The other man as vice has made him now	A2
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'War is the statesman's game the priest's delight	C
The lawyer's jest the hired assassin's trade	C
And to those royal murderers whose mean thrones	G
Are bought by crimes of treachery and gore	P
The bread they eat the staff on which they lean	J
Guards garbed in blood red livery surround	C
Their palaces participate the crimes	G
That force defends and from a nation's rage	R2
Secures the crown which all the curses reach	S2
That famine frenzy woe	F

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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