The Statues And The Tear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCCDEFDGHIJJIKK LMMNOOL| All night a fountain pleads | A |
| Telling her beads | A |
| Her tinkling beads monotonous 'neath the moon | B |
| And where she springs atween | B |
| Two statues lean | B |
| Two Kings their marble beards with moonlight strewn | B |
| Till hate had frozen speech | C |
| Each hated each | C |
| Hated and died and went unto his place | D |
| And still inveterate | E |
| They lean and hate | F |
| With glare of stone implacable face to face | D |
| One who bade set them here | G |
| In stone austere | H |
| To both was dear and did not guess at all | I |
| Yet with her new wed lord | J |
| Walking the sward | J |
| Paused and for two dead friends a tear let all | I |
| She turn'd and went her way | K |
| Yet in the spray | K |
| The shining tear attempts but cannot lie | L |
| Night long the fountain drips | M |
| But even slips | M |
| Untold that one bead of her rosary | N |
| While they who know it would | O |
| Lie if it could | O |
| Lean on and hate watching it eye to eye | L |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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