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Queen Mab: Part V. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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'Thus do the generations of the earth	A
Go to the grave and issue from the womb	B
Surviving still the imperishable change	C
That renovates the world even as the leaves	D
Which the keen frost wind of the waning year	E
Has scattered on the forest soil and heaped	F
For many seasons there though long they choke	G
Loading with loathsome rottenness the land	H
All germs of promise yet when the tall trees	I
From which they fell shorn of their lovely shapes	J
Lie level with the earth to moulder there	K
They fertilize the land they long deformed	L
Till from the breathing lawn a forest springs	M
Of youth integrity and loveliness	M
Like that which gave it life to spring and die	N
Thus suicidal selfishness that blights	M
The fairest feelings of the opening heart	O
Is destined to decay whilst from the soil	P
Shall spring all virtue all delight all love	Q
And judgment cease to wage unnatural war	R
With passion's unsubduable array	S
Twin sister of Religion Selfishness	M
Rival in crime and falsehood aping all	T
The wanton horrors of her bloody play	S
Yet frozen unimpassioned spiritless	M
Shunning the light and owning not its name	U
Compelled by its deformity to screen	V
With flimsy veil of justice and of right	W
Its unattractive lineaments that scare	K
All save the brood of ignorance at once	M
The cause and the effect of tyranny	X
Unblushing hardened sensual and vile	Y
Dead to all love but of its abjectness	M
With heart impassive by more noble powers	M
Than unshared pleasure sordid gain or fame	U
Despising its own miserable being	Z
Which still it longs yet fears to disenthrall	Y
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'Hence commerce springs the venal interchange	C
Of all that human art or Nature yield	A2
Which wealth should purchase not but want demand	H
And natural kindness hasten to supply	Y
From the full fountain of its boundless love	Q
Forever stifled drained and tainted now	B2
Commerce beneath whose poison breathing shade	C2
No solitary virtue dares to spring	Z
But poverty and wealth with equal hand	H
Scatter their withering curses and unfold	D2
The doors of premature and violent death	E2
To pining famine and full fed disease	M
To all that shares the lot of human life	F2
Which poisoned body and soul scarce drags the chain	G2
That lengthens as it goes and clanks behind	H2
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'Commerce has set the mark of selfishness	M
The signet of its all enslaving power	I2
Upon a shining ore and called it gold	D2
Before whose image bow the vulgar great	J2
The vainly rich the miserable proud	K2
The mob of peasants nobles priests and kings	M
And with blind feelings reverence the power	I2
That grinds them to the dust of misery	X
But in the temple of their hireling hearts	M
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn	L2
All earthly things but virtue	M2
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'Since tyrants by the sale of human life	F2
Heap luxuries to their sensualism and fame	U
To their wide wasting and insatiate pride	N2
Success has sanctioned to a credulous world	O2
The ruin the disgrace the woe of war	R
His hosts of blind and unresisting dupes	M
The despot numbers from his cabinet	P2
These puppets of his schemes he moves at will	Y
Even as the slaves by force or famine driven	Q2
Beneath a vulgar master to perform	R2
A task of cold and brutal drudgery	X
Hardened to hope insensible to fear	E
Scarce living pulleys of a dead machine	V
Mere wheels of work and articles of trade	C2
That grace the proud and noisy pomp of wealth	S2
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'The harmony and happiness of man	T2
Yields to the wealth of nations that which lifts	M
His nature to the heaven of its pride	N2
Is bartered for the poison of his soul	Y
The weight that drags to earth his towering hopes	M
Blighting all prospect but of selfish gain	G2
Withering all passion but of slavish fear	E
Extinguishing all free and generous love	Q
Of enterprise and daring even the pulse	M
That fancy kindles in the beating heart	O
To mingle with sensation it destroys	M
Leaves nothing but the sordid lust of self	U2
The grovelling hope of interest and gold	D2
Unqualified unmingled unredeemed	V2
Even by hypocrisy	X
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And statesmen boast	W2
Of wealth The wordy eloquence that lives	M
After the ruin of their hearts can gild	X2
The bitter poison of a nation's woe	Y2
Can turn the worship of the servile mob	Z2
To their corrupt and glaring idol fame	U
From virtue trampled by its iron tread	A3
Although its dazzling pedestal be raised	B3
Amid the horrors of a limb strewn field	A2
With desolated dwellings smoking round	C3
The man of ease who by his warm fireside	N2
To deeds of charitable intercourse	M
And bare fulfilment of the common laws	M
Of decency and prejudice confines	M
The struggling nature of his human heart	O
Is duped by their cold sophistry he sheds	M
A passing tear perchance upon the wreck	D3
Of earthly peace when near his dwelling's door	R
The frightful waves are driven when his son	Q2
Is murdered by the tyrant or religion	Q2
Drives his wife raving mad But the poor man	T2
Whose life is misery and fear and care	K
Whom the morn wakens but to fruitless toil	Y
Who ever hears his famished offspring's scream	E3
Whom their pale mother's uncomplaining gaze	M
Forever meets and the proud rich man's eye	Y
Flashing command and the heart breaking scene	V
Of thousands like himself he little heeds	M
The rhetoric of tyranny his hate	J2
Is quenchless as his wrongs he laughs to scorn	L2
The vain and bitter mockery of words	M
Feeling the horror of the tyrant's deeds	M
And unrestrained but by the arm of power	I2
That knows and dreads his enmity	X
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'The iron rod of penury still compels	M
Her wretched slave to bow the knee to wealth	S2
And poison with unprofitable toil	Y
A life too void of solace to confirm	F3
The very chains that bind him to his doom	B
Nature impartial in munificence	M
Has gifted man with all subduing will	Y
Matter with all its transitory shapes	M
Lies subjected and plastic at his feet	G3
That weak from bondage tremble as they tread	A3
How many a rustic Milton has passed by	Y
Stifling the speechless longings of his heart	O
In unremitting drudgery and care	K
How many a vulgar Cato has compelled	H3
His energies no longer tameless then	I3
To mould a pin or fabricate a nail	Y
How many a Newton to whose passive ken	I3
Those mighty spheres that gem infinity	X
Were only specks of tinsel fixed in heaven	Q2
To light the midnights of his native town	J3
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'Yet every heart contains perfection's germ	F3
The wisest of the sages of the earth	A
That ever from the stores of reason drew	M2
Science and truth and virtue's dreadless tone	K3
Were but a weak and inexperienced boy	L3
Proud sensual unimpassioned unimbued	X
With pure desire and universal love	Q
Compared to that high being of cloudless brain	G2
Untainted passion elevated will	Y
Which death who even would linger long in awe	M3
Within his noble presence and beneath	N3
His changeless eye beam might alone subdue	X
Him every slave now dragging through the filth	O3
Of some corrupted city his sad life	F2
Pining with famine swoln with luxury	X
Blunting the keenness of his spiritual sense	M
With narrow schemings and unworthy cares	M
Or madly rushing through all violent crime	P3
To move the deep stagnation of his soul	Y
Might imitate and equal	Y
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But mean lust	X
Has bound its chains so tight about the earth	A
That all within it but the virtuous man	T2
Is venal gold or fame will surely reach	Q3
The price prefixed by Selfishness to all	Y
But him of resolute and unchanging will	Y
Whom nor the plaudits of a servile crowd	X
Nor the vile joys of tainting luxury	X
Can bribe to yield his elevated soul	Y
To Tyranny or Falsehood though they wield	X
With blood red hand the sceptre of the world	X
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'All things are sold the very light of heaven	Q2
Is venal earth's unsparing gifts of love	Q
The smallest and most despicable things	M
That lurk in the abysses of the deep	R3
All objects of our life even life itself	U2
And the poor pittance which the laws allow	B2
Of liberty the fellowship of man	T2
Those duties which his heart of human love	Q
Should urge him to perform instinctively	X
Are bought and sold as in a public mart	X
Of undisguising Selfishness that sets	M
On each its price the stamp mark of her reign	G2
Even love is sold the solace of all woe	Y2
Is turned to deadliest agony old age	S3
Shivers in selfish beauty's loathing arms	M
And youth's corrupted impulses prepare	K