Queen Mab: Part Vii. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Queen Mab: Part Vii. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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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