Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| Books and a coloured skein of thoughts were mine | A |
| And magic words lay ripening in my soul | B |
| Till their much whispered music turned a wine | A |
| Whose subtlest power was all in my control | B |
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| These things were mine and they were real for me | C |
| As lips and darling eyes and a warm breast | D |
| For I could love a phrase a melody | C |
| Like a fair woman worshipped and possessed | D |
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| I scorned all fire that outward of the eyes | E |
| Could kindle passion scorned yet was afraid | F |
| Feared and yet envied those more deeply wise | E |
| Who saw the bright earth beckon and obeyed | F |
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| But a time came when turning full of hate | G |
| And weariness from my remembered themes | H |
| I wished my poet's pipe could modulate | G |
| Beauty more palpable than words and dreams | H |
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| All loveliness with which an act informs | I |
| The dim uncertain chaos of desire | J |
| Is mine to day it touches me it warms | I |
| Body and spirit with its outward fire | J |
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| I am mine no more I have become a part | K |
| Of that great earth that draws a breath and stirs | L |
| To meet the spring But I could wish my heart | K |
| Were still a winter of frosty gossamers | L |
Aldous Huxley
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