A Vision Upon The Fairy Queen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGHIIMethought I saw the grave where Laura lay | A |
Within that temple where the vestal flame | B |
Was wont to burn and passing by that way | A |
To see that buried dust of living fame | B |
Whose tomb fair Love and fairer Virtue kept | C |
All suddenly I saw the Fairy Queen | D |
At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept | C |
And from thenceforth those graces were not seen | D |
For they this Queen attended in whose stead | E |
Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse | F |
Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed | G |
And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce | H |
Where Homer's spright did tremble all for grief | I |
And cursed the access of that celestial thief | I |
Sir Walter Raleigh
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