Lament Of Mary Queen Of Scots Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFGE HIHIJJI KLKLMML NLNLOOL PQPQRRQ STSTUET SVSVWWX YZYZA2A2Z EB2QB2C2C2B2SMILE of the Moon for I so name | A |
That silent greeting from above | B |
A gentle flash of light that came | A |
From her whom drooping captives love | B |
Or art thou of still higher birth | C |
Thou that didst part the clouds of earth | C |
My torpor to reprove | B |
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Bright boon of pitying Heaven alas | D |
I may not trust thy placid cheer | E |
Pondering that Time tonight will pass | D |
The threshold of another year | E |
For years to me are sad and dull | F |
My very moments are too full | G |
Of hopelessness and fear | E |
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And yet the soul awakening gleam | H |
That struck perchance the farthest cone | I |
Of Scotland's rocky wilds did seem | H |
To visit me and me alone | I |
Me unapproached by any friend | J |
Save those who to my sorrow lend | J |
Tears due unto their own | I |
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To night the church tower bells will ring | K |
Through these wide realms a festire peal | L |
To the new year a welcoming | K |
A tuneful offering for the weal | L |
Of happy millions lulled in deep | M |
While I am forced to watch and weep | M |
By wounds that may not heal | L |
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Born all too high by wedlock raised | N |
Still higher to be cast thus low | L |
Would that mine eyes had never gazed | N |
On aught of more ambitious show | L |
Than the sweet flowerets of the fields | O |
It is my royal state that yields | O |
This bitterness of woe | L |
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Yet how for I if there be truth | P |
In the world's voice was passing fair | Q |
And beauty for confiding youth | P |
Those shocks of passion can prepare | Q |
That kill the bloom before its time | R |
And blanch without the owner's crime | R |
The most resplendent hair | Q |
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Unblest distinction showered on me | S |
To bind a lingering life in chains | T |
All that could quit my grasp or flee | S |
Is gone but not the subtle stains | T |
Fixed in the spirit for even here | U |
Can I be proud that jealous fear | E |
Of what I was remains | T |
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A Woman rules my prison's key | S |
A sister Queen against the bent | V |
O law and holiest sympathy | S |
Detains me doubtful of the event | V |
Great God who feel'st for my distress | W |
My thoughts are all that I possess | W |
O keep them innocent | X |
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Farewell desire of human aid | Y |
Which abject mortals vainly court | Z |
By friends deceived by foes betrayed | Y |
Of fears the prey of hopes the sport | Z |
Nought but the world redeeming Cross | A2 |
Is able to support my loss | A2 |
My burthen to support | Z |
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Hark the death note of the year | E |
Sounded by the castle clock | B2 |
From her sunk eyes a stagnant tear | Q |
Stole forth unsettled by the shock | B2 |
But oft the woods renewed their green | C2 |
Ere the tired head of Scotland's Queen | C2 |
Reposed upon the block | B2 |
William Wordsworth
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