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The Ring[1] A Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Annulus ille viri	A
OVID Amor lib ii eleg	B
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The happy day at length arrived	C
When Rupert was to wed	D
The fairest maid in Saxony	E
And take her to his bed	D
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As soon as morn was in the sky	B
The feast and sports began	F
The men admired the happy maid	G
The maids the happy man	F
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In many a sweet device of mirth	H
The day was past along	B
And some the featly dance amused	I
And some the dulcet song	B
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The younger maids with Isabel	J
Disported through the bowers	K
And decked her robe and crowned her head	D
With motley bridal flowers	K
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The matrons all in rich attire	A
Within the castle walls	L
Sat listening to the choral strains	M
That echoed through the halls	L
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Young Rupert and his friends repaired	N
Unto a spacious court	O
To strike the bounding tennis ball	P
In feat and manly sport	O
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The bridegroom on his finger wore	A
The wedding ring so bright	Q
Which was to grace the lily hand	R
Of Isabel that night	Q
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And fearing he might break the gem	S
Or lose it in the play	T
Hie looked around the court to see	E
Where he the ring might lay	T
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Now in the court a statue stood	U
Which there full long had been	V
It might a Heathen goddess be	E
Or else a Heathen queen	W
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Upon its marble finger then	X
He tried the ring to fit	Y
And thinking it was safest there	A
Thereon he fastened it	Y
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And now the tennis sports went on	Z
Till they were wearied all	P
And messengers announced to them	S
Their dinner in the hall	P
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Young Rupert for his wedding ring	B
Unto the statue went	A2
But oh how shocked was he to find	B2
The marble finger bent	A2
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The hand was closed upon the ring	B
With firm and mighty clasp	C2
In vain he tried and tried and tried	D2
He could not loose the grasp	C2
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Then sore surprised was Rupert's mind	B2
As well his mind might be	E
I'll come quoth he at night again	X
When none are here to see	E
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He went unto the feast and much	E2
He thought upon his ring	B
And marvelled sorely what could mean	W
So very strange a thing	B
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The feast was o'er and to the court	O
He hied without delay	T
Resolved to break the marble hand	R
And force the ring away	T
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But mark a stranger wonder still	F2
The ring was there no more	A
And yet the marble hand ungrasped	R
And open as before	A
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He searched the base and all the court	R
But nothing could he find	R
Then to the castle hied he back	B
With sore bewildered mind	R
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Within he found them all in mirth	H
The night in dancing flew	G2
The youth another ring procured	R
And none the adventure knew	G2
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And now the priest has joined their hands	H2
The hours of love advance	I2
Rupert almost forgets to think	B
Upon the morn's mischance	I2
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Within the bed fair Isabel	J
In blushing sweetness lay	T
Like flowers half opened by the dawn	J2
And waiting for the day	T
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And Rupert by her lovely side	R
In youthful beauty glows	I2
Like Phoebus when he bends to cast	R
His beams upon a rose	I2
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And here my song would leave them both	K2
Nor let the rest be told	R
If 'twere not for the horrid tale	L2
It yet has to unfold	R
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Soon Rupert 'twixt his bride and him	M2
A death cold carcass found	R
He saw it not but thought he felt	R
Its arms embrace him round	R
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He started up and then returned	R
But found the phantom still	F2
In vain he shrunk it clipt him round	R
With damp and deadly chill	F2
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And when he bent the earthy lips	I2
A kiss of horror gave	N2
'Twas like the smell from charnel vaults	I2
Or from the mouldering grave	N2
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Ill fated Rupert wild and loud	R
Then cried he to his wife	O2
Oh save me from this horrid fiend	R
My Isabel my life	O2
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But Isabel had nothing seen	W
She looked around in vain	P2
And much she mourned the mad conceit	R
That racked her Rupert's brain	P2
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At length from this invisible	Q2
These words to Rupert came	R2
Oh God while he did hear the words	I2
What terrors shook his frame	R2
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Husband husband I've the ring	B
Thou gavest to day to me	E
And thou'rt to me for ever wed	R
As I am wed to thee	E
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And all the night the demon lay	T
Cold chilling by his side	R
And strained him with such deadly grasp	C2
He thought he should have died	R
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But when the dawn of day was near	A
The horrid phantom fled	R
And left the affrighted youth to weep	S2
By Isabel in bed	R
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And all that day a gloomy cloud	R
Was seen on Rupert's brows	I2
Fair Isabel was likewise sad	R
But strove to cheer her spouse	I2
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And as the day advanced he thought	R
Of coming night with fear	A
Alas that he should dread to view	G2
The bed that should be dear	A
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At length the second night arrived	R
Again their couch they prest	R
Poor Rupert hoped that all was o'er	A
And looked for love and rest	R
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But oh when midnight came again	X
The fiend was at his side	R
And as it strained him in its grasp	C2
With howl exulting cried	R
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Husband husband I've the ring	B
The ring thou gavest to me	E
And thou'rt to me for ever wed	R
As I am wed to thee	E
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In agony of wild despair	A
He started from the bed	R
And thus to his bewildered wife	O2
The trembling Rupert said	R
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Oh Isabel dost thou not see	E
A shape of horrors here	A
That strains me to its deadly kiss	I2
And keeps me from my dear	A
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No no my love my Rupert I	B
No shape of horrors see	E
And much I mourn the fantasy	E
That keeps my dear from me	E
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This night just like the night before	A
In terrors past away	T
Nor did the demon vanish thence	I2
Before the dawn of day	T
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Said Rupert then My Isabel	J
Dear partner of my woe	T2
To Father Austin's holy cave	N2
This instant will I go	T2
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Now Austin was a reverend man	F
Who acted wonders maint	T
Whom all the country round believed	T
A devil or a saint	T
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To Father Austin's holy cave	N2
Then Rupert straightway went	T
And told him all and asked him how	U2
These horrors to prevent	T
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The father heard the youth and then	X
Retired awhile to pray	T
And having prayed for half an hour	A
Thus to the youth did say	T
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There is a place where four roads meet	T
Which I will tell to thee	E
Be there this eve at fall of night	T
And list what thou shalt see	E
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Thou'lt see a group of figures pass	I2
In strange disordered crowd	T
Travelling by torchlight through the roads	I2
With noises strange and loud	T
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And one that's high above the rest	T
Terrific towering o'er	A
Will make thee know him at a glance	I2
So I need say no more	A
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To him from me these tablets give	V2
They'll quick be understood	T
Thou need'st not fear but give them straight	T
I've scrawled them with my blood	T
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The night fall came and Rupert all	P
In pale amazement went	T
To where the cross roads met as he	E
Was by the Father sent	T
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And lo a group of figures came	R2
In strange disordered crowd	T
Travelling by torchlight through the roads	I2
With noises strange and loud	T
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And as the gloomy train advanced	T
Rupert beheld from far	A
A female form of wanton mien	W
High seated on a car	A
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And Rupert as he gazed upon	Z
The loosely vested dame	R2
Thought of the marble statue's look	B
For hers was just the same	R2
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Behind her walked a hideous form	W2
With eyeballs flashing death	X2
Whene'er he breathed a sulphured smoke	B
Came burning in his breath	X2
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He seemed the first of all the crowd	T
Terrific towering o'er	A
Yes yes said Rupert this is he	E
And I need ask no more	A
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Then slow he went and to this fiend	T
The tablets trembling gave	N2
Who looked and read them with a yell	J
That would disturb the grave	N2
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And when he saw the blood scrawled name	R2
His eyes with fury shine	Y2
I thought cries he his time was out	T
But he must soon be mine	Y2
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Then darting at the youth a look	B
Which rent his soul with fear	A
He went unto the female fiend	T
And whispered in her ear	A
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The female fiend no sooner heard	T
Than with reluctant look	B
The very ring that Rupert lost	T
She from her finger took	B
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And giving it unto the youth	Z2
With eyes that breathed of hell	J
She said in that tremendous voice	I2
Which he remembered well	J
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In Austin's name take back the ring	B
The ring thou gavest to me	E
And thou'rt to me no longer wed	T
Nor longer I to thee	E
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He took the ring the rabble past	T
He home returned again	X
His wife was then the happiest fair	A
The happiest he of men	X