Queen Mab: Part Vii. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMN EOPQRSTUVWXYZA2B2OC2 D2E2F2G2H2I2J2K2L2ZM 2C2EXN2O2P2Q2R2S2T2 U2V2W2W2W2CGU2U2CX2 XY2W2W2U2Z2A3 W2W2CW2VU2U2GB3C3CU2 D3E3W2 W2 U2W2U2W2W2W2W2F3U2G3 U2W2W2W2W2W2H3W2U2I3 J3XU2 U2X2MCW2K3L3X2M3W2W2 J2U2W2W2D3U2X2S2N3 W2I3 W2W2O3W2X2W2 U2CU2X2P3Q3W2W2E3GC3 E3RRC3RW2RR3U2W2O3W2 S3U2X RSC3T3W2U3W2U2U2W2W2 RV3U2U2W2C3W2RW2W2X2 E3RRSW2O3W3V3O3| Spirit | A |
| 'I was an infant when my mother went | B |
| To see an atheist burned She took me there | C |
| The dark robed priests were met around the pile | D |
| The multitude was gazing silently | E |
| And as the culprit passed with dauntless mien | F |
| Tempered disdain in his unaltering eye | G |
| Mixed with a quiet smile shone calmly forth | H |
| The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs | I |
| His resolute eyes were scorched to blindness soon | J |
| His death pang rent my heart the insensate mob | K |
| Uttered a cry of triumph and I wept | L |
| 'Weep not child ' cried my mother 'for that man | M |
| Has said There is no God '' | N |
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| FAIRY | E |
| 'There is no God | O |
| Nature confirms the faith his death groan sealed | P |
| Let heaven and earth let man's revolving race | Q |
| His ceaseless generations tell their tale | R |
| Let every part depending on the chain | S |
| That links it to the whole point to the hand | T |
| That grasps its term Let every seed that falls | U |
| In silent eloquence unfold its store | V |
| Of argument infinity within | W |
| Infinity without belie creation | X |
| The exterminable spirit it contains | Y |
| Is Nature's only God but human pride | Z |
| Is skilful to invent most serious names | A2 |
| To hide its ignorance | B2 |
| 'The name of God | O |
| Has fenced about all crime with holiness | C2 |
| Himself the creature of his worshippers | D2 |
| Whose names and attributes and passions change | E2 |
| Seeva Buddh Foh Jehovah God or Lord | F2 |
| Even with the human dupes who build his shrines | G2 |
| Still serving o'er the war polluted world | H2 |
| For desolation's watchword whether hosts | I2 |
| Stain his death blushing chariot wheels as on | J2 |
| Triumphantly they roll whilst Brahmins raise | K2 |
| A sacred hymn to mingle with the groans | L2 |
| Or countless partners of his power divide | Z |
| His tyranny to weakness or the smoke | M2 |
| Of burning towns the cries of female helplessness | C2 |
| Unarmed old age and youth and infancy | E |
| Horribly massacred ascend to heaven | X |
| In honor of his name or last and worst | N2 |
| Earth groans beneath religion's iron age | O2 |
| And priests dare babble of a God of peace | P2 |
| Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood | Q2 |
| Murdering the while uprooting every germ | R2 |
| Of truth exterminating spoiling all | S2 |
| Making the earth a slaughter house | T2 |
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| 'O Spirit through the sense | U2 |
| By which thy inner nature was apprised | V2 |
| Of outward shows vague dreams have rolled | W2 |
| And varied reminiscences have waked | W2 |
| Tablets that never fade | W2 |
| All things have been imprinted there | C |
| The stars the sea the earth the sky | G |
| Even the unshapeliest lineaments | U2 |
| Of wild and fleeting visions | U2 |
| Have left a record there | C |
| To testify of earth | X2 |
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| 'These are my empire for to me is given | X |
| The wonders of the human world to keep | Y2 |
| And fancy's thin creations to endow | W2 |
| With manner being and reality | W2 |
| Therefore a wondrous phantom from the dreams | U2 |
| Of human error's dense and purblind faith | Z2 |
| I will evoke to meet thy questioning | A3 |
| Ahasuerus rise ' | - |
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| A strange and woe worn wight | W2 |
| Arose beside the battlement | W2 |
| And stood unmoving there | C |
| His inessential figure cast no shade | W2 |
| Upon the golden floor | V |
| His port and mien bore mark of many years | U2 |
| And chronicles of untold ancientness | U2 |
| Were legible within his beamless eye | G |
| Yet his cheek bore the mark of youth | B3 |
| Freshness and vigor knit his manly frame | C3 |
| The wisdom of old age was mingled there | C |
| With youth's primeval dauntlessness | U2 |
| And inexpressible woe | D3 |
| Chastened by fearless resignation gave | E3 |
| An awful grace to his all speaking brow | W2 |
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| SPIRIT | W2 |
| 'Is there a God ' | - |
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| AHASUERUS | U2 |
| 'Is there a God ay an almighty God | W2 |
| And vengeful as almighty Once his voice | U2 |
| Was heard on earth earth shuddered at the sound | W2 |
| The fiery visaged firmament expressed | W2 |
| Abhorrence and the grave of Nature yawned | W2 |
| To swallow all the dauntless and the good | W2 |
| That dared to hurl defiance at his throne | F3 |
| Girt as it was with power None but slaves | U2 |
| Survived cold blooded slaves who did the work | G3 |
| Of tyrannous omnipotence whose souls | U2 |
| No honest indignation ever urged | W2 |
| To elevated daring to one deed | W2 |
| Which gross and sensual self did not pollute | W2 |
| These slaves built temples for the omnipotent fiend | W2 |
| Gorgeous and vast the costly altars smoked | W2 |
| With human blood and hideous p ans rung | H3 |
| Through all the long drawn aisles A murderer heard | W2 |
| His voice in Egypt one whose gifts and arts | U2 |
| Had raised him to his eminence in power | I3 |
| Accomplice of omnipotence in crime | J3 |
| And confidant of the all knowing one | X |
| These were Jehovah's words | U2 |
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| ''From an eternity of idleness | U2 |
| I God awoke in seven days' toil made earth | X2 |
| From nothing rested and created man | M |
| I placed him in a paradise and there | C |
| Planted the tree of evil so that he | W2 |
| Might eat and perish and my soul procure | K3 |
| Wherewith to sate its malice and to turn | L3 |
| Even like a heartless conqueror of the earth | X2 |
| All misery to my fame The race of men | M3 |
| Chosen to my honor with impunity | W2 |
| May sate the lusts I planted in their heart | W2 |
| Here I command thee hence to lead them on | J2 |
| Until with hardened feet their conquering troops | U2 |
| Wade on the promised soil through woman's blood | W2 |
| And make my name be dreaded through the land | W2 |
| Yet ever burning flame and ceaseless woe | D3 |
| Shall be the doom of their eternal souls | U2 |
| With every soul on this ungrateful earth | X2 |
| Virtuous or vicious weak or strong even all | S2 |
| Shall perish to fulfil the blind revenge | N3 |
| Which you to men call justice of their God ' | - |
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| 'The murderer's brow | W2 |
| Quivered with horror | I3 |
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| ''God omnipotent | W2 |
| Is there no mercy must our punishment | W2 |
| Be endless will long ages roll away | O3 |
| And see no term Oh wherefore hast thou made | W2 |
| In mockery and wrath this evil earth | X2 |
| Mercy becomes the powerful be but just | W2 |
| O God repent and save ' | - |
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| ''One way remains | U2 |
| I will beget a son and he shall bear | C |
| The sins of all the world he shall arise | U2 |
| In an unnoticed corner of the earth | X2 |
| And there shall die upon a cross and purge | P3 |
| The universal crime so that the few | Q3 |
| On whom my grace descends those who are marked | W2 |
| As vessels to the honor of their God | W2 |
| May credit this strange sacrifice and save | E3 |
| Their souls alive Millions shall live and die | G |
| Who ne'er shall call upon their Saviour's name | C3 |
| But unredeemed go to the gaping grave | E3 |
| Thousands shall deem it an old woman's tale | R |
| Such as the nurses frighten babes withal | R |
| These in a gulf of anguish and of flame | C3 |
| Shall curse their reprobation endlessly | R |
| Yet tenfold pangs shall force them to avow | W2 |
| Even on their beds of torment where they howl | R |
| My honor and the justice of their doom | R3 |
| What then avail their virtuous deeds their thoughts | U2 |
| Of purity with radiant genius bright | W2 |
| Or lit with human reason's earthly ray | O3 |
| Many are called but few will I elect | W2 |
| Do thou my bidding Moses ' | - |
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| 'Even the murderer's cheek | S3 |
| Was blanched with horror and his quivering lips | U2 |
| Scarce faintly uttered 'O almighty one | X |
| I tremble and obey ' | - |
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| 'O Spirit centuries have set their seal | R |
| On this heart of many wounds and loaded brain | S |
| Since the Incarnate came humbly he came | C3 |
| Veiling his horrible Godhead in the shape | T3 |
| Of man scorned by the world his name unheard | W2 |
| Save by the rabble of his native town | U3 |
| Even as a parish demagogue He led | W2 |
| The crowd he taught them justice truth and peace | U2 |
| In semblance but he lit within their souls | U2 |
| The quenchless flames of zeal and blessed the sword | W2 |
| He brought on earth to satiate with the blood | W2 |
| Of truth and freedom his malignant soul | R |
| At length his mortal frame was led to death | V3 |
| I stood beside him on the torturing cross | U2 |
| No pain assailed his unterrestrial sense | U2 |
| And yet he groaned Indignantly I summed | W2 |
| The massacres and miseries which his name | C3 |
| Had sanctioned in my country and I cried | W2 |
| 'Go go ' in mockery | R |
| A smile of godlike malice reillumined | W2 |
| His fading lineaments 'I go ' he cried | W2 |
| 'But thou shalt wander o'er the unquiet earth | X2 |
| Eternally ' The dampness of the grave | E3 |
| Bathed my imperishable front I fell | R |
| And long lay tranced upon the charm d soil | R |
| When I awoke hell burned within my brain | S |
| Which staggered on its seat for all around | W2 |
| The mouldering relics of my kindred lay | O3 |
| Even as the Almighty's ire arrested them | W3 |
| And in their various attitudes of death | V3 |
| My murdered chil | O3 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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