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Peter Bell, A Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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PROLOGUE	A
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There's something in a flying horse	B
There's something in a huge balloon	C
But through the clouds I'll never float	D
Until I have a little Boat	D
Shaped like the crescent moon	C
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And now I 'have' a little Boat	D
In shape a very crescent moon	C
Fast through the clouds my boat can sail	E
But if perchance your faith should fail	E
Look up and you shall see me soon	C
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The woods my Friends are round you roaring	F
Rocking and roaring like a sea	G
The noise of danger's in your ears	H
And ye have all a thousand fears	H
Both for my little Boat and me	G
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Meanwhile untroubled I admire	I
The pointed horns of my canoe	J
And did not pity touch my breast	K
To see how ye are all distrest	K
Till my ribs ached I'd laugh at you	J
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Away we go my Boat and I	L
Frail man ne'er sate in such another	M
Whether among the winds we strive	N
Or deep into the clouds we dive	N
Each is contented with the other	M
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Away we go and what care we	G
For treasons tumults and for wars	O
We are as calm in our delight	K
As is the crescent moon so bright	K
Among the scattered stars	P
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Up goes my Boat among the stars	P
Through many a breathless field of light	K
Through many a long blue field of ether	M
Leaving ten thousand stars beneath her	M
Up goes my little Boat so bright	K
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The Crab the Scorpion and the Bull	Q
We pry among them all have shot	K
High o'er the red haired race of Mars	P
Covered from top to toe with scars	P
Such company I like it not	K
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The towns in Saturn are decayed	K
And melancholy Spectres throng them	R
The Pleiads that appear to kiss	S
Each other in the vast abyss	S
With joy I sail among them	R
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Swift Mercury resounds with mirth	T
Great Jove is full of stately bowers	U
But these and all that they contain	V
What are they to that tiny grain	V
That little Earth of ours	U
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Then back to Earth the dear green Earth	T
Whole ages if I here should roam	W
The world for my remarks and me	G
Would not a whit the better be	G
I've left my heart at home	W
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See there she is the matchless Earth	T
There spreads the famed Pacific Ocean	X
Old Andes thrusts yon craggy spear	Y
Through the grey clouds the Alps are here	Z
Like waters in commotion	X
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Yon tawny slip is Libya's sands	A2
That silver thread the river Dnieper	Z
And look where clothed in brightest green	B2
Is a sweet Isle of isles the Queen	B2
Ye fairies from all evil keep her	Z
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And see the town where I was born	C2
Around those happy fields we span	D2
In boyish gambols I was lost	K
Where I have been but on this coast	K
I feel I am a man	D2
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Never did fifty things at once	E2
Appear so lovely never never	Z
How tunefully the forests ring	F
To hear the earth's soft murmuring	F
Thus could I hang for ever	Z
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Shame on you cried my little Boat	K
Was ever such a homesick Loon	C
Within a living Boat to sit	K
And make no better use of it	K
A Boat twin sister of the crescent moon	C
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Ne'er in the breast of full grown Poet	K
Fluttered so faint a heart before	Z
Was it the music of the spheres	H
That overpowered your mortal ears	H
Such din shall trouble them no more	Z
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These nether precincts do not lack	F2
Charms of their own then come with me	G
I want a comrade and for you	J
There's nothing that I would not do	J
Nought is there that you shall not see	G
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Haste and above Siberian snows	G2
We'll sport amid the boreal morning	F
Will mingle with her lustres gliding	F
Among the stars the stars now hiding	F
And now the stars adorning	F
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I know the secrets of a land	K
Where human foot did never stray	Z
Fair is that land as evening skies	H2
And cool though in the depth it lies	H2
Of burning Africa	I2
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Or we'll into the realm of Faery	Z
Among the lovely shades of things	J2
The shadowy forms of mountains bare	Z
And streams and bowers and ladies fair	Z
The shades of palaces and kings	J2
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Or if you thirst with hardy zeal	K2
Less quiet regions to explore	Z
Prompt voyage shall to you reveal	K2
How earth and heaven are taught to feel	K2
The might of magic lore	Z
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My little vagrant Form of light	K
My gay and beautiful Canoe	J
Well have you played your friendly part	K
As kindly take what from my heart	K
Experience forces then adieu	J
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Temptation lurks among your words	L2
But while these pleasures you're pursuing	F
Without impediment or let	K
No wonder if you quite forget	K
What on the earth is doing	F
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There was a time when all mankind	K
Did listen with a faith sincere	Z
To tuneful tongues in mystery versed	K
'Then' Poets fearlessly rehearsed	K
The wonders of a wild career	Z
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Go but the world's a sleepy world	K
And 'tis I fear an age too late	K
Take with you some ambitious Youth	M2
For restless Wanderer I in truth	M2
Am all unfit to be your mate	K
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Long have I loved what I behold	K
The night that calms the day that cheers	H
The common growth of mother earth	T
Suffices me her tears her mirth	T
Her humblest mirth and tears	N2
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The dragon's wing the magic ring	F
I shall not covet for my dower	Z
If I along that lowly way	Z
With sympathetic heart may stray	Z
And with a soul of power	Z
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These given what more need I desire	Z
To stir to soothe or elevate	K
What nobler marvels than the mind	K
May in life's daily prospect find	K
May find or there create	K
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A potent wand doth Sorrow wield	K
What spell so strong as guilty Fear	Z
Repentance is a tender Sprite	K
If aught on earth have heavenly might	K
'Tis lodged within her silent tear	Z
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But grant my wishes let us now	O2
Descend from this ethereal height	K
Then take thy way adventurous Skiff	P2
More daring far than Hippogriff	P2
And be thy own delight	K
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To the stone table in my garden	X
Loved haunt of many a summer hour	Z
The Squire is come his daughter Bess	Q2
Beside him in the cool recess	Q2
Sits blooming like a flower	Z
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With these are many more convened	K
They know not I have been so far	Z
I see them there in number nine	R2
Beneath the spreading Weymouth pine	R2
I see them there they are	Z
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There sits the Vicar and his Dame	S2
And there my good friend Stephen Otter	Z
And ere the light of evening fail	E
To them I must relate the Tale	E
Of Peter Bell the Potter	Z
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Off flew the Boat away she flees	T2
Spurning her freight with indignation	X
And I as well as I was able	U2
On two poor legs toward my stone table	U2
Limped on with sore vexation	X
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O here he is cried little Bess	Q2
She saw me at the garden door	Z
We've waited anxiously and long	V2
They cried and all around me throng	V2
Full nine of them or more	Z
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Reproach me not your fears be still	W2
Be thankful we again have met	K
Resume my Friends within the shade	K
Your seats and quickly shall be paid	K
The well remembered debt	K
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I spake with faltering voice like one	X
Not wholly rescued from the pale	E
Of a wild dream or worse illusion	X
But straight to cover my confusion	X
Began the promised Tale	E
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PART FIRST	K
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ALL by the moonlight river side	K
Groaned the poor Beast alas in vain	X
The staff was raised to loftier height	K
And the blows fell with heavier weight	K
As Peter struck and struck again	X
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Hold cried the Squire against the rules	X2
Of common sense you're surely sinning	F
This leap is for us all too bold	K
Who Peter was let that be told	K
And start from the beginning	F
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A Potter Sir he was by trade	K
Said I becoming quite collected	K
And wheresoever he appeared	K
Full twenty times was Peter feared	K
For once that Peter was respected	K
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He two and thirty years or more	Z
Had been a wild and woodland rover	Z
Had heard the Atlantic surges roar	Z
On farthest Cornwall's rocky shore	Z
And trod the cliffs of Dover	Z
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And he had seen Caernarvon's towers	U
And well he knew the spire of Sarum	Y2
And he had been where Lincoln bell	Z2
Flings o'er the fen that ponderous knell	Z2
A far renowned alarum	Y2
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At Doncaster at York and Leeds	A3
And merry Carlisle had	K