The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGHIIHIII J HIIKJJHLMHIHH INHHJGHINOPJJQIH RQSILIHIIITIIHOIHHUI HJJ RVIWHIXHIHYZIHIHA2HK IHJIB2A2IQDXYHIIA2IQ HHC2IYHIINBetwene the Cytee and the Chirche of Bethlehem is the felde | A |
Floridus that is to seyne the feld florisched For als | B |
moche as a fayre Mayden was blamed with wrong and | C |
sclaundred that sche hadde don fornicacioun for whiche | D |
cause sche was demed to the dethe and to be brent in that | E |
place to the whiche sche was ladd And as the fyre began to | F |
brenne about hire she made hire preyeres to oure Lord that | E |
als wissely as sche was not gylty of that synne that he | G |
wold help hire and make it to be knowen to alle men of his | H |
mercyfulle grace and whanne she had thus seyd sche entered | I |
into the fuyer and anon was the fuyer quenched and oute | I |
and the brondes that weren brennynge becomen white Roseres | H |
fulle of roses and theise weren the first Roseres and | I |
roses bothe white and rede that evere ony man saughe And | I |
thus was this Maiden saved be the Grace of God | I |
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'The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile' | J |
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Nay EDITH spare the rose it lives it lives | H |
It feels the noon tide sun and drinks refresh'd | I |
The dews of night let not thy gentle hand | I |
Tear sunder its life fibres and destroy | K |
The sense of being why that infidel smile | J |
Come I will bribe thee to be merciful | J |
And thou shall have a tale of other times | H |
For I am skill'd in legendary lore | L |
So thou wilt let it live There was a time | M |
Ere this the freshest sweetest flower that blooms | H |
Bedeck'd the bowers of earth Thou hast not heard | I |
How first by miracle its fragrant leaves | H |
Spread to the sun their blushing loveliness | H |
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There dwelt at Bethlehem a Jewish maid | I |
And Zillah was her name so passing fair | N |
That all Judea spake the damsel's praise | H |
He who had seen her eyes' dark radiance | H |
How quick it spake the soul and what a soul | J |
Beam'd in its mild effulgence woe was he | G |
For not in solitude for not in crowds | H |
Might he escape remembrance or avoid | I |
Her imaged form that followed every where | N |
And fill'd the heart and fix'd the absent eye | O |
Woe was he for her bosom own'd no love | P |
Save the strong ardours of religious zeal | J |
For Zillah on her God had centered all | J |
Her spirit's deep affections So for her | Q |
Her tribes men sigh'd in vain yet reverenced | I |
The obdurate virtue that destroyed their hopes | H |
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One man there was a vain and wretched man | R |
Who saw desired despair'd and hated her | Q |
His sensual eye had gloated on her cheek | S |
Even till the flush of angry modesty | I |
Gave it new charms and made him gloat the more | L |
She loath'd the man for Hamuel's eye was bold | I |
And the strong workings of brute selfishness | H |
Had moulded his broad features and she fear'd | I |
The bitterness of wounded vanity | I |
That with a fiendish hue would overcast | I |
His faint and lying smile Nor vain her fear | T |
For Hamuel vowed revenge and laid a plot | I |
Against her virgin fame He spread abroad | I |
Whispers that travel fast and ill reports | H |
That soon obtain belief that Zillah's eye | O |
When in the temple heaven ward it was rais'd | I |
Did swim with rapturous zeal but there were those | H |
Who had beheld the enthusiast's melting glance | H |
With other feelings fill'd that 'twas a task | U |
Of easy sort to play the saint by day | I |
Before the public eye but that all eyes | H |
Were closed at night that Zillah's life was foul | J |
Yea forfeit to the law | J |
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Shame shame to man | R |
That he should trust so easily the tongue | V |
That stabs another's fame the ill report | I |
Was heard repeated and believed and soon | W |
For Hamuel by most damned artifice | H |
Produced such semblances of guilt the Maid | I |
Was judged to shameful death | X |
Without the walls | H |
There was a barren field a place abhorr'd | I |
For it was there where wretched criminals | H |
Were done to die and there they built the stake | Y |
And piled the fuel round that should consume | Z |
The accused Maid abandon'd as it seem'd | I |
By God and man The assembled Bethlemites | H |
Beheld the scene and when they saw the Maid | I |
Bound to the stake with what calm holiness | H |
She lifted up her patient looks to Heaven | A2 |
They doubted of her guilt With other thoughts | H |
Stood Hamuel near the pile him savage joy | K |
Led thitherward but now within his heart | I |
Unwonted feelings stirr'd and the first pangs | H |
Of wakening guilt anticipating Hell | J |
The eye of Zillah as it glanced around | I |
Fell on the murderer once but not in wrath | B2 |
And therefore like a dagger it had fallen | A2 |
Had struck into his soul a cureless wound | I |
Conscience thou God within us not in the hour | Q |
Of triumph dost thou spare the guilty wretch | D |
Not in the hour of infamy and death | X |
Forsake the virtuous they draw near the stake | Y |
And lo the torch hold hold your erring hands | H |
Yet quench the rising flames they rise they spread | I |
They reach the suffering Maid oh God protect | I |
The innocent one | A2 |
They rose they spread they raged | I |
The breath of God went forth the ascending fire | Q |
Beneath its influence bent and all its flames | H |
In one long lightning flash collecting fierce | H |
Darted and blasted Hamuel him alone | C2 |
Hark what a fearful scream the multitude | I |
Pour forth and yet more miracles the stake | Y |
Buds out and spreads its light green leaves and bowers | H |
The innocent Maid and roses bloom around | I |
Now first beheld since Paradise was lost | I |
And fill with Eden odours all the air | N |
Robert Southey
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