A Dialogue At Fiesole Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB AEF AGHIAJ AKLM ANO APQR AS ATUVSW AUCX AYUNGGZZA2A2SSSSB2B2 C2C2WWD2U E2E2F2F2G2G2NNISSSU H2H2I2I2ZZRRJ2J2YYK2 K2NU AL2SSYSM2G2C AN2ZSD2PO2AP2Q2J2N AUNCCR2R2SSIISSWWU AYS2T2ISD2U2V2N AAW2 AQ2X2JI2Y2O AZ2A3B3Y AC3D3S2E3F3SVG3C2H3I 3PJ3SB2Y AK3L3M3N3O2SO3SP3SSJ 2YJQ3P3R3S3NT3N3J2SU 3WK3ST2KNOV3W3BK2YN3 O2S3YX3Y3SI3F3P3YOSO YOOZ3HE | A |
Halt here awhile That mossy cushioned seat | B |
Is for your queenliness a natural throne | C |
As I am fitly couched on this low sward | D |
Here at your feet | B |
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SHE | A |
And I in thought at yours | E |
My adoration deepest | F |
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HE | A |
Deep so deep | G |
I have no thought wherewith to fathom it | H |
Or shall I say no flight of song so high | I |
To reach the Heaven whence you look down on me | A |
My star my far off star | J |
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SHE | A |
If far yet fixed | K |
No shifting planet leaving you to seek | L |
Where now it shines | M |
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HE | A |
A little light if near | N |
Glows livelier than the largest orb in Heaven | O |
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SHE | A |
But little lights burn quickly out and then | P |
Another must be kindled Stars gleam on | Q |
Unreached but unextinguished Now the song | R |
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HE | A |
Yes yes the song your music to my verse | S |
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SHE | A |
In this sequestered dimple of the hill | T |
Forgotten by the furrow none will hear | U |
Only the nightingales that misconceive | V |
The mid day darkness of the cypresses | S |
For curtained night | W |
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HE | A |
And they will hush to hear | U |
A sudden singing sweeter than their own | C |
Delay not the enchantment but begin | X |
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SHE | A |
singing | Y |
If you were here if you were here | U |
The cattle bells would sound more clear | N |
The cataracts would flash and leap | G |
More silvery from steep to steep | G |
The farewell of a rosier glow | Z |
Soften the summit of the snow | Z |
The valley take a tenderer green | A2 |
In dewy gorge and dim ravine | A2 |
The loving bramble flowers embrace | S |
The rough thorn with a gentler grace | S |
The gentian open bluer eyes | S |
In bluer air to bluer skies | S |
The frail anemone delay | B2 |
The jonquil hasten on its way | B2 |
The primrose linger past its time | C2 |
The violet prolong its prime | C2 |
And every flower that seeks the light | W |
On Alpine lowland Alpine height | W |
Wear April's smile without its tear | D2 |
If you were here if you were here | U |
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If you were here the Spring would wake | E2 |
A fuller music in the brake | E2 |
The mottled misselthrush would pipe | F2 |
A note more ringing rich and ripe | F2 |
The whitethroat peer above its nest | G2 |
With brighter eye and downier breast | G2 |
The cuckoo greet the amorous year | N |
Chanting its joy without its jeer | N |
The lark betroth the earth and sky | I |
With peals of heavenlier minstrelsy | S |
And every wildwood bird rejoice | S |
On fleeter wing with sweeter voice | S |
If you were here | U |
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If you were here I too should feel | H2 |
The moisture of the Springtide steal | H2 |
Along my veins and rise and roll | I2 |
Through every fibre of my soul | I2 |
In my live breast would melt the snow | Z |
And all its channels flush and flow | Z |
With waves of life and streams of song | R |
Frozen and silent all too long | R |
A something in each wilding flower | J2 |
Something in every scented shower | J2 |
Something in flitting voice and wing | Y |
Would drench my heart and bid me sing | Y |
Not in this feeble halting note | K2 |
But like the merle's exulting throat | K2 |
With carol full and carol clear | N |
If you were here if you were here | U |
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HE | A |
Hark How the hills have caught the strain and seem | L2 |
Loth to surrender it and now enclose | S |
Its cadence in the silence of their folds | S |
Still as you sang the verses had the wing | Y |
Of that which buoyed them and your aery voice | S |
Lifted my drooping music from the ground | M2 |
Now that you cease there is an empty nest | G2 |
From which the full fledged melody hath flown | C |
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SHE | A |
Dare I with you contend in metaphor | N2 |
It might not be so fanciful to show | Z |
That nest and eggs and music all are yours | S |
But modesty in poets is too rare | D2 |
To be reproved for error Let me then | P |
Be crowned full queen of song albeit in sooth | O2 |
I am but consort owing my degree | A |
To the real sceptred Sovereign at my side | P2 |
But now repay my music and in kind | Q2 |
Unfolding to my ear the youngest flower | J2 |
Of song that seems to blossom all the year | N |
Delay not the enchantment but begin '' | - |
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HE | A |
reciting Yet you are here yes you are here | U |
There's not a voice that wakes the year | N |
In vale frequented upland lone | C |
But steals some sweetness from your own | C |
When dream and darkness have withdrawn | R2 |
I feel you in the freshening dawn | R2 |
You fill the noonday's hushed repose | S |
You scent the dew of daylight's close | S |
The twilight whispers you are nigh | I |
The stars announce you in the sky | I |
The moon when most alone in space | S |
Fills all the heavens with your face | S |
In darkest hour of deepest night | W |
I see you with the spirit's sight | W |
And slumber murmurs in my ear | U |
Hush she is here Sleep she is here '' | - |
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SHE | A |
Hark how you bare your secret when you sing | Y |
Imagination's universal scope | S2 |
Can swift endue this gray and shapeless world | T2 |
With the designs and colour of the sky | I |
What want you with our fixed and lumpish forms | S |
You unconditioned arbiter of air | D2 |
Yet you are here yes you are here '' The span | U2 |
Of nimble fancy leaps the interval | V2 |
And brings the distant nearer than the near | N |
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HE | A |
Distance is nearer than proximity | A |
When distance longs proximity doth not | W2 |
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SHE | A |
The near is always distant to the mind | Q2 |
That craves for satisfaction of its end | X2 |
Nor doth the distance ever feel so far | J |
As when the end is touched Retard that goal | I2 |
Prolonging appetite beyond the feast | Y2 |
That feeds anticipation | O |
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HE | A |
Specious foil | Z2 |
That parries every stroke before 'tis made | A3 |
Yet surfeit's self doth not more surely cloy | B3 |
Than endless fasting | Y |
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SHE | A |
Still a swifter cure | C3 |
Waits on too little than attends too much | D3 |
While disappointment merely woundeth Hope | S2 |
The deadly blow by disenchantment dealt | E3 |
Strikes at the heart of Faith O happy you | F3 |
The favourites of Fancy who replace | S |
Illusion with illusion and conceive | V |
Fresh cradles in the dark womb of the grave | G3 |
While we prosaic victims prove that time | C2 |
Kills love while leaving loveless life alive | H3 |
You still divinely duped sing deathless love | I3 |
And with your wizard music once again | P |
Make Winter Spring Yet surely you forgive | J3 |
That I have too much pity for the flowers | S |
Children and poets cull to fling away | B2 |
To be an April nosegay | Y |
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HE | A |
How you swell | K3 |
The common chorus Women who are wronged | L3 |
So roughly by men's undiscerning word | M3 |
As though one pattern served to show them all | N3 |
Should be more just to poets These in truth | O2 |
Diverge from one another nowise less | S |
Than women '' vaguely labelled children some | O3 |
With childish voice and nature lyric bards | S |
Weaklings that on life's threshold sweetly wail | P3 |
But never from that silvery treble pass | S |
Into the note and chant of manliness | S |
Their love is like their verse a frail desire | J2 |
A fluttering fountain falling feebly back | Y |
Into its shallow origin Next there are | J |
The poets of contention wrestlers born | Q3 |
Who challenge iron Circumstance and fail | P3 |
Generous and strong withal not strong enough | R3 |
Since lacking sinewy wisdom hard as life | S3 |
The love of these is like the lightning spear | N |
And shrivels whom it touches They consume | T3 |
All things within their reach and last of all | N3 |
Their lonely selves and then through time they tower | J2 |
Sublime but charred and wear on their high fronts | S |
The gloomy glory of the sunlit pine | U3 |
But the great gods of Song in clear white light | W |
The radiance of their godhead calmly dwell | K3 |
And with immutable cold starlike gaze | S |
Scan both the upper and the under world | T2 |
As it revolves themselves serenely fixed | K |
Their bias is the bias of the sphere | N |
That turns all ways but turns away from none | O |
Save to return to it They have no feud | V3 |
With gods or men the living or the dead | W3 |
The past or present and their words complete | B |
Life's incompleteness with a healing note | K2 |
For they are not more sensitive than strong | Y |
More wise than tender understanding all | N3 |
At peace with all at peace with life and death | O2 |
And love that gives a meaning unto life | S3 |
And takes from death the meaning and the sting | Y |
At peace with hate and every opposite | X3 |
Were I but one of these presumptuous thought | Y3 |
Even you the live fulfilment of such dreams | S |
As these secrete would hazard well your love | I3 |
On my more largely loving 'Twould be you | F3 |
Yes even you that first would flag and fail | P3 |
In either of my choosing you whose wing | Y |
Would droop on mine and pray to be upborne | O |
And when my pinions did no more suffice | S |
For that their double load then softly down | O |
Softly and smoothly as descending lark | Y |
That hath fulfilled its rhapsody in Heaven | O |
And with diminished music must decline | O |
To earthy sounds and | Z3 |
Alfred Austin
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