Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF EEGG HHII JJKL MMNN LLEE OOJJ GGPP LLQQ EEEAThey say that fair Romance is dead and in her cold grave lying low | A |
The green grass waving o'er her head the mould upon her breasts of snow | A |
Her voice they say is dumb for aye that once was clarion clear and high | B |
But in their hearts their frozen hearts they know that bitterly they lie | B |
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Her brow of white that was with bright rose garland in the old days crowned | C |
Is now they say all shorn of light and with a fatal fillet bound | C |
Her eyes divine no more shall shine to lead the hardy knight and good | D |
Unto the Castle Perilous beyond the dark Enchanted Wood | D |
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And do they deem these fools supreme whose iron wheels unceasing whirr | E |
That in this rushing Age of Steam there is no longer room for her | E |
That as they hold the Key of Gold that shuts or opens Mammon's Den | F |
Romance has vanished from the earth and left the homes and hearts of men | F |
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Yea some there be who fain would see this consummation sad and drear | E |
And set their god Machinery with iron rod to rule the year | E |
They go their way day after day with forward staring famished eyes | G |
Whose level glances never stray fixed fast upon a sordid prize | G |
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The sun may rise in god like guise the stars like burning seraphs shine | H |
But ah for those sad souls unwise nor Earth nor Heaven bears a sign | H |
All visions fair in earth and air they gaze upon with sullen scorn | I |
God knows His own great business best He only knows why they were born | I |
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They never saw with sacred awe the Vision of the Starry Stream | J |
That is the source of Love and Law they never dreamt the Wondrous Dream | J |
They never heard the Magic Bird whose strains the poet's soul entrance | K |
Their souls are in their money bags what should they know of fair Romance | L |
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She still is here the fair and dear and walks the Earth with noiseless feet | M |
Her eyes are deep and dark and clear her scarlet mouth is honey sweet | M |
A chaplet fair of roses rare and lordly laurel crowns her head | N |
Her path is over land and sea She is not dead she is not dead | N |
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On roads of clay 'neath skies of grey though Fate compel us to advance | L |
Beyond the turning of the way there sits and waits for us Romance | L |
Around yon cape of lion shape that meets the wave with lion brow | E |
A ship sails in from lands unknown Romance stands shining on her prow | E |
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At dead of night a fiery light from out the heart of darkness glares | O |
The engine rocking in its flight once more into the darkness flares | O |
The train flies fast the bridge is past white faces for a moment gleam | J |
And at the window sits Romance and gazes down into the stream | J |
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When first the child with wonder wild looks on the world with shining eyes | G |
Romance becomes his guardian mild and tells to him her stories wise | G |
And when the light fades into night and ended is this life's short span | P |
To other wonder worlds she leads the spirit of the Dying Man | P |
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Right grim gods be Reality and iron handed Circumstance | L |
Cast off their fetters friend Break free and seek the shrine of fair Romance | L |
And when dark days with cares would craze your brain then she will take your hand | Q |
And lead you on by greenwood ways unto a green and pleasant land | Q |
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There you will see brave company all making gay and gallant cheer | E |
Blanaid the Fair and Deirdri rare and Gold Gudrun and Guinevere | E |
And Merlin wise with dreaming eyes and Tristram of the Harp and Bow | E |
While from the Wood of Broceliande the horns of Elfland bravely blow | A |
Victor James Daley
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