La Nue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH EEEE JKJK GGGG ELEL MENE OPQP RSRT GUGU GGGG| Oft when sweet music undulated round | A |
| Like the full moon out of a perfumed sea | B |
| Thine image from the waves of blissful sound | A |
| Rose and thy sudden light illumined me | B |
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| And in the country leaf and flower and air | C |
| Would alter and the eternal shape emerge | D |
| Because they spoke of thee the fields seemed fair | C |
| And Joy to wait at the horizon's verge | D |
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| The little cloud gaps in the east that filled | E |
| Gray afternoons with bits of tenderest blue | F |
| Were windows in a palace pearly silled | E |
| That thy voluptuous traits came glimmering through | F |
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| And in the city dominant desire | G |
| For which men toil within its prison bars | H |
| I watched thy white feet moving in the mire | I |
| And thy white forehead hid among the stars | H |
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| Mystical feminine provoking nude | E |
| Radiant there with rosy arms outspread | E |
| Sum of fulfillment sovereign attitude | E |
| Sensual with laughing lips and thrown back head | E |
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| Draped in the rainbow on the summer hills | J |
| Hidden in sea mist down the hot coast line | K |
| Couched on the clouds that fiery sunset fills | J |
| Blessed remote impersonal divine | K |
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| The gold all color and grace are folded o'er | G |
| The warmth all beauty and tenderness embower | G |
| Thou quiverest at Nature's perfumed core | G |
| The pistil of a myriad petalled flower | G |
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| Round thee revolves illimitably wide | E |
| The world's desire as stars around their pole | L |
| Round thee all earthly loveliness beside | E |
| Is but the radiate infinite aureole | L |
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| Thou art the poem on the cosmic page | M |
| In rubric written on its golden ground | E |
| That Nature paints her flowers and foliage | N |
| And rich illumined commentary round | E |
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| Thou art the rose that the world's smiles and tears | O |
| Hover about like butterflies and bees | P |
| Thou art the theme the music of the spheres | Q |
| Echoes in endless variant harmonies | P |
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| Thou art the idol in the altar niche | R |
| Faced by Love's congregated worshippers | S |
| Thou art the holy sacrament round which | R |
| The vast cathedral is the universe | T |
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| Thou art the secret in the crystal where | G |
| For the last light upon the mystery Man | U |
| In his lone tower and ultimate despair | G |
| Searched the gray bearded Zoroastrian | U |
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| And soft and warm as in the magic sphere | G |
| Deep orbed as in its erubescent fire | G |
| So in my heart thine image would appear | G |
| Curled round with the red flames of my desire | G |
Alan Seeger
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