The Vision Of The Maid Of Orleans - The Third Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNKOBPQR STUVWXYZA2B2RC2ZD2E2 FF2UUG2H2U UI2UUUJ2 UUK2L2M2N2 O2UP2UUUQ2R2S2T2U2V2 I2Q2UW2UUUUUX2UQZY2 DZ2UUA3UUZ2Q2 UQ2Z2Q2B3Q2C3Z2UQ2D3 UUE3Y2UF3Q2G3UH3Q2 T2I3UJ3U UK3Q2Q2Q2L3 UA3UPQ2UPM3N3O3 UUPZ2L3P3Q3Q2UB3Z2Q2 Z2Q2B3 Q2UQ2 R3S3UZ2Q2B3GUQ2UT3UU UZ2U3UQ2Q2UV3Q2J3J3Z 2Q2Z2U3J3U RQ2W3The Maiden musing on the Warrior's words | A |
Turn'd from the Hall of Glory Now they reach'd | B |
A cavern at whose mouth a Genius stood | C |
In front a beardless youth whose smiling eye | D |
Beam'd promise but behind withered and old | E |
And all unlovely Underneath his feet | F |
Lay records trampled and the laurel wreath | G |
Now rent and faded in his hand he held | H |
An hour glass and as fall the restless sands | I |
So pass the lives of men By him they past | J |
Along the darksome cave and reach'd a stream | K |
Still rolling onward its perpetual waves | L |
Noiseless and undisturbed Here they ascend | M |
A Bark unpiloted that down the flood | N |
Borne by the current rush'd The circling stream | K |
Returning to itself an island form'd | O |
Nor had the Maiden's footsteps ever reach'd | B |
The insulated coast eternally | P |
Rapt round the endless course but Theodore | Q |
Drove with an angel's will the obedient bark | R |
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They land a mighty fabric meets their eyes | S |
Seen by its gem born light Of adamant | T |
The pile was framed for ever to abide | U |
Firm in eternal strength Before the gate | V |
Stood eager EXPECTATION as to list | W |
The half heard murmurs issuing from within | X |
Her mouth half open'd and her head stretch'd forth | Y |
On the other side there stood an aged Crone | Z |
Listening to every breath of air she knew | A2 |
Vague suppositions and uncertain dreams | B2 |
Of what was soon to come for she would mark | R |
The paley glow worm's self created light | C2 |
And argue thence of kingdoms overthrown | Z |
And desolated nations ever fill'd | D2 |
With undetermin'd terror as she heard | E2 |
Or distant screech owl or the regular beat | F |
Of evening death watch | F2 |
'Maid ' the Spirit cried | U |
Here robed in shadows dwells FUTURITY | U |
There is no eye hath seen her secret form | G2 |
For round the MOTHER OF TIME unpierced mists | H2 |
Aye hover Would'st thou read the book of Fate | U |
Enter ' | - |
The Damsel for a moment paus'd | U |
Then to the Angel spake 'All gracious Heaven | I2 |
Benignant in withholding hath denied | U |
To man that knowledge I in faith assured | U |
That he my heavenly Father for the best | U |
Ordaineth all things in that faith remain | J2 |
Contented ' | - |
'Well and wisely hast thou said | U |
So Theodore replied 'and now O Maid | U |
Is there amid this boundless universe | K2 |
One whom thy soul would visit is there place | L2 |
To memory dear or visioned out by hope | M2 |
Where thou would'st now be present form the wish | N2 |
And I am with thee there ' | - |
His closing speech | O2 |
Yet sounded on her ear and lo they stood | U |
Swift as the sudden thought that guided them | P2 |
Within the little cottage that she loved | U |
'He sleeps the good man sleeps ' enrapt she cried | U |
As bending o'er her Uncle's lowly bed | U |
Her eye retraced his features 'See the beads | Q2 |
That never morn nor night he fails to tell | R2 |
Remembering me his child in every prayer | S2 |
Oh quiet be thy sleep thou dear old man | T2 |
Good Angels guard thy rest and when thine hour | U2 |
Is come as gently mayest thou wake to life | V2 |
As when thro' yonder lattice the next sun | I2 |
Shall bid thee to thy morning orisons | Q2 |
Thy voice is heard the Angel guide rejoin'd | U |
He sees thee in his dreams he hears thee breathe | W2 |
Blessings and pleasant is the good man's rest | U |
Thy fame has reached him for who has not heard | U |
Thy wonderous exploits and his aged heart | U |
Hath felt the deepest joy that ever yet | U |
Made his glad blood flow fast Sleep on old Claude | U |
Peaceful pure Spirit be thy sojourn here | X2 |
And short and soon thy passage to that world | U |
Where friends shall part no more | Q |
'Does thy soul own | Z |
No other wish or sleeps poor Madelon | Y2 |
Forgotten in her grave seest thou yon star ' | - |
The Spirit pursued regardless of her eye | D |
That look'd reproach 'seest thou that evening star | Z2 |
Whose lovely light so often we beheld | U |
From yonder woodbine porch how have we gazed | U |
Into the dark deep sky till the baffled soul | A3 |
Lost in the infinite returned and felt | U |
The burthen of her bodily load and yearned | U |
For freedom Maid in yonder evening slar | Z2 |
Lives thy departed friend I read that glance | Q2 |
And we are there ' | - |
He said and they had past | U |
The immeasurable space | Q2 |
Then on her ear | Z2 |
The lonely song of adoration rose | Q2 |
Sweet as the cloister'd virgins vesper hymn | B3 |
Whose spirit happily dead to earthly hopes | Q2 |
Already lives in Heaven Abrupt the song | C3 |
Ceas'd tremulous and quick a cry | Z2 |
Of joyful wonder rous'd the astonish'd Maid | U |
And instant Madelon was in her arms | Q2 |
No airy form no unsubstantial shape | D3 |
She felt her friend she prest her to her heart | U |
Their tears of rapture mingled | U |
She drew back | E3 |
And eagerly she gazed on Madelon | Y2 |
Then fell upon her neck again and wept | U |
No more she saw the long drawn lines of grief | F3 |
The emaciate form the hue of sickliness | Q2 |
The languid eye youth's loveliest freshness now | G3 |
Mantled her cheek whose every lineament | U |
Bespake the soul at rest a holy calm | H3 |
A deep and full tranquillity of bliss | Q2 |
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'Thou then art come my first and dearest friend ' | - |
The well known voice of Madelon began | T2 |
'Thou then art come and was thy pilgrimage | I3 |
So short on earth and was it painful too | U |
Painful and short as mine but blessed they | J3 |
Who from the crimes and miseries of the world | U |
Early escape ' | - |
'Nay ' Theodore replied | U |
She hath not yet fulfill'd her mortal work | K3 |
Permitted visitant from earth she comes | Q2 |
To see the seat of rest and oftentimes | Q2 |
In sorrow shall her soul remember this | Q2 |
And patient of the transitory woe | L3 |
Partake the anticipated peace again ' | - |
'Soon be that work perform'd ' the Maid exclaimed | U |
'O Madelon O Theodore my soul | A3 |
Spurning the cold communion of the world | U |
Will dwell with you but I shall patiently | P |
Yea even with joy endure the allotted ills | Q2 |
Of which the memory in this better state | U |
Shall heighten bliss That hour of agony | P |
When Madelon I felt thy dying grasp | M3 |
And from thy forehead wiped the dews of death | N3 |
The very horrors of that hour assume | O3 |
A shape that now delights ' | - |
'O earliest friend | U |
I too remember ' Madelon replied | U |
'That hour thy looks of watchful agony | P |
The suppressed grief that struggled in thine eye | Z2 |
Endearing love's last kindness Thou didst know | L3 |
With what a deep and melancholy joy | P3 |
I felt the hour draw on but who can speak | Q3 |
The unutterable transport when mine eyes | Q2 |
As from a long and dreary dream unclosed | U |
Amid this peaceful vale unclos'd on him | B3 |
My Arnaud he had built me up a bower | Z2 |
A bower of rest See Maiden where he comes | Q2 |
His manly lineaments his beaming eye | Z2 |
The same but now a holier innocence | Q2 |
Sits on his cheek and loftier thoughts illume | B3 |
The enlighten'd glance ' | - |
They met what joy was theirs | Q2 |
He best can feel who for a dear friend dead | U |
Has wet the midnight pillow with his tears | Q2 |
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Fair was the scene around an ample vale | R3 |
Whose mountain circle at the distant verge | S3 |
Lay softened on the sight the near ascent | U |
Rose bolder up in part abrupt and bare | Z2 |
Part with the ancient majesty of woods | Q2 |
Adorn'd or lifting high its rocks sublime | B3 |
The river's liquid radiance roll'd beneath | G |
Beside the bower of Madelon it wound | U |
A broken stream whose shallows tho' the waves | Q2 |
Roll'd on their way with rapid melody | U |
A child might tread Behind an orange grove | T3 |
Its gay green foliage starr'd with golden fruit | U |
But with what odours did their blossoms load | U |
The passing gale of eve less thrilling sweet | U |
Rose from the marble's perforated floor | Z2 |
Where kneeling at her prayers the Moorish queen | U3 |
Inhaled the cool delight and whilst she asked | U |
The Prophet for his promised paradise | Q2 |
Shaped from the present scene its utmost joys | Q2 |
A goodly scene fair as that faery land | U |
Where Arthur lives by ministering spirits borne | V3 |
From Camlan's bloody banks or as the groves | Q2 |
Of earliest Eden where so legends say | J3 |
Enoch abides and he who rapt away | J3 |
By fiery steeds and chariotted in fire | Z2 |
Past in his mortal form the eternal ways | Q2 |
And John beloved of Christ enjoying there | Z2 |
The beatific vision sometimes seen | U3 |
The distant dawning of eternal day | J3 |
Till all things be fulfilled | U |
'Survey this scene ' | - |
So Theodore address'd the Maid of Arc | R |
'There is no evil here no wretchedness | Q2 |
It is the Heave | W3 |
Robert Southey
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