The Destined Maid: A Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEEFEF GHGADDEEFEF GDGDDDEEFEF GDBDDDEEDED GDBDDDEEDED I EEDED D| Chant Royal | A |
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| O MIGHTY Queen our Lady of the fire | B |
| The light the music and the honey all | C |
| Blent in one Power one passionate Desire | B |
| Man calleth Love 'Sweet love ' the blessed call | C |
| I come a sad eyed suppliant to thy knee | D |
| If thou hast pity pity grant to me | D |
| If thou hast bounty here a heart I bring | E |
| For all that bounty 'thirst and hungering | E |
| O Lady save thy grace there is no way | F |
| For me I know but lonely sorrowing | E |
| Send me a maiden meet for love I pray | F |
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| I lay in darkness face down in the mire | G |
| And prayed that darkness might become my pall | H |
| The rabble rout roared round me like some quire | G |
| Of filthy animals primordial | A |
| My heart seemed like a toad eternally | D |
| Prisoned in stone ugly and sad as he | D |
| Sweet sunlight seemed a dream a mythic thing | E |
| And life some beldam's dotard gossiping | E |
| Then Lady I bethought me of thy sway | F |
| And hoped again rose up this prayer to wing | E |
| Send me a maiden meet for love I pray | F |
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| Lady I bear no high resounding lyre | G |
| To hymn thy glory and thy foes appal | D |
| With thunderous splendour of my rhythmic ire | G |
| A little lute I lightly touch and small | D |
| My skill thereon yet Lady if it be | D |
| I ever woke ear winning melody | D |
| 'Twas for thy praise I sought the throbbing string | E |
| Thy praise alone for all my worshipping | E |
| Is at thy shrine thou knowest day by day | F |
| Then shall it be in vain my plaint to sing | E |
| Send me a maiden meet for love I pray | F |
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| Yea why of all men should this sorrow dire | G |
| Unto thy servant bitterly befall | D |
| For Lady thou dost know I ne'er did tire | B |
| Of thy sweet sacraments and ritual | D |
| In morning meadows I have knelt to thee | D |
| In noontide woodlands hearkened hushedly | D |
| Thy heart's warm beat in sacred slumbering | E |
| And in the spaces of the night heard ring | E |
| Thy voice in answer to the spheral lay | D |
| Now 'neath thy throne my suppliant life I fling | E |
| Send me a maiden meet for love I pray | D |
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| I ask no maid for all men to admire | G |
| Mere body's beauty hath in me no thrall | D |
| And noble birth and sumptuous attire | B |
| Are gauds I crave not yet shall have withal | D |
| With a sweet difference in my heart's own She | D |
| Whom words speak not but eyes know when they see | D |
| Beauty beyond all glass's mirroring | E |
| And dream and glory hers for garmenting | E |
| Her birth O Lady wilt thou say me nay | D |
| Of thine own womb of thine own nurturing | E |
| Send me a maiden meet for love I pray | D |
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| ENVOI | I |
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| Sweet Queen who sittest at the heart of spring | E |
| My life is thine barren or blossoming | E |
| 'Tis thine to flush it gold or leave it grey | D |
| And so unto thy garment's hem I cling | E |
| Send me a maiden meet for love I pray | D |
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| January | D |
Richard Le Gallienne
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