Beatrice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGEHIJKL MNOPQORSTUVWLDXYZA2X B2 OC2D2E2F2G2C2H2I2J2K 2L2M2N2O2ED2DP2DQ2XR 2DO2S2 DS2 T2EO2U2D2 V2H2| Send out the singers let the room be still | A |
| They have not eased my pain nor brought me sleep | B |
| Close out the sun for I would have it dark | C |
| That I may feel how black the grave will be | D |
| The sun is setting for the light is red | E |
| And you are outlined in a golden fire | F |
| Like Ursula upon an altar screen | G |
| Come leave the light and sit beside my bed | E |
| For I have had enough of saints and prayers | H |
| Strange broken thoughts are beating in my brain | I |
| They come and vanish and again they come | J |
| It is the fever driving out my soul | K |
| And Death stands waiting by the arras there | L |
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| Ornella I will speak for soon my lips | M |
| Shall keep a silence till the end of time | N |
| You have a mouth for loving listen then | O |
| Keep tryst with Love before Death comes to tryst | P |
| For I who die could wish that I had lived | Q |
| A little closer to the world of men | O |
| Not watching always thro' the blazoned panes | R |
| That show the world in chilly greens and blues | S |
| And grudge the sunshine that would enter in | T |
| I was no part of all the troubled crowd | U |
| That moved beneath the palace windows here | V |
| And yet sometimes a knight in shining steel | W |
| Would pass and catch the gleaming of my hair | L |
| And wave a mailed hand and smile at me | D |
| Whereat I made no sign and turned away | X |
| Affrighted and yet glad and full of dreams | Y |
| Ah dreams and dreams that asked no answering | Z |
| I should have wrought to make my dreams come true | A2 |
| But all my life was like an autumn day | X |
| Full of gray quiet and a hazy peace | B2 |
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| What was I saying All is gone again | O |
| It seemed but now I was the little child | C2 |
| Who played within a garden long ago | D2 |
| Beyond the walls the festal trumpets blared | E2 |
| Perhaps they carried some Madonna by | F2 |
| With tossing ensigns in a sea of flowers | G2 |
| A painted Virgin with a painted Child | C2 |
| Who saw for once the sweetness of the sun | H2 |
| Before they shut her in an altar niche | I2 |
| Where tapers smoke against the windy gloom | J2 |
| I gathered roses redder than my gown | K2 |
| And played that I was Saint Elizabeth | L2 |
| Whose wine had turned to roses in her hands | M2 |
| And as I played a child came thro' the gate | N2 |
| A boy who looked at me without a word | O2 |
| As tho' he saw stretch far behind my head | E |
| Long lines of radiant angels row on row | D2 |
| That day we spoke a little timidly | D |
| And after that I never heard the voice | P2 |
| That sang so many songs for love of me | D |
| He was content to stand and watch me pass | Q2 |
| To seek for me at matins every day | X |
| Where I could feel his eyes the while I prayed | R2 |
| I think if he had stretched his hands to me | D |
| Or moved his lips to say a single word | O2 |
| I might have loved him he had wondrous eyes | S2 |
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| Ornella are you there I cannot see | D |
| Is every one so lonely when he dies | S2 |
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| The room is filled with lights with waving lights | T2 |
| Who are the men and women 'round the bed | E |
| What have I said Ornella Have they heard | O2 |
| There was no evil hidden in my life | U2 |
| And yet and yet I would not have them know | D2 |
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| Am I not floating in a mist of light | V2 |
| O lift me up and I shall reach the sun | H2 |
Sara Teasdale
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