The Magic Mirror Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEGBABA HIHICBCB JKJK L MNMN| Come if thy magic Glass have power | A |
| To call up forms we sigh to see | B |
| Show me my love in that rosy bower | A |
| Where last she pledged her truth to me | B |
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| The Wizard showed him his Lady bright | C |
| Where lone and pale in her bower she lay | D |
| True hearted maid said the happy Knight | C |
| She's thinking of one who is far away | D |
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| But lo a page with looks of joy | E |
| Brings tidings to the Lady's ear | F |
| 'Tis said the Knight the same bright boy | E |
| Who used to guide me to my dear | G |
| The Lady now from her favorite tree | B |
| Hath smiling plucked a rosy flower | A |
| Such he exclaimed was the gift that she | B |
| Each morning sent me from that bower | A |
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| She gives her page the blooming rose | H |
| With looks that say Like lightning fly | I |
| Thus thought the Knight she soothes her woes | H |
| By fancying still her true love nigh | I |
| But the page returns and oh what a sight | C |
| For trusting lover's eyes to see | B |
| Leads to that bower another Knight | C |
| As young and alas as loved as he | B |
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| Such quoth the Youth is Woman's love | J |
| Then darting forth with furious bound | K |
| Dashed at the Mirror his iron glove | J |
| And strewed it all in fragments round | K |
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| MORAL | L |
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| Such ills would never have come to pass | M |
| Had he ne'er sought that fatal view | N |
| The Wizard would still have kept his Glass | M |
| And the Knight still thought his Lady true | N |
Thomas Moore
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