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Two Visions Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The curtains of the Night were folded	A
Over suspended sense	B
So that the things I saw were moulded	A
I know not how nor whence	B
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Straight I beheld a marble city	A
Built upon wayward slopes	C
Along whose paths as if for pity	A
Ran tight drawn golden ropes	C
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Withal of many who ascended	A
No one appeared to use	D
This help allowed in days since mended	A
When folks had frailer thews	D
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The men all animal in vigour	E
Strode stalwart and erect	A
But on their brows in placid rigour	E
Watched sovereign Intellect	A
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Women brave limbed sound lunged full breasted	A
Walked at a rhythmic pace	D
Yet not for that the less invested	A
With every female grace	D
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Unveiled and wholly unattended	A
Strolled maidens to and fro	E
Youths looked respect but never bended	A
Obsequiously low	E
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And each with other sans condition	F
Held parley brief or long	G
Without provoking rash suspicion	F
Of marriage or of wrong	G
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Distinction none of wooed or winning	H
And no one made remark	I
Till came they where the old were spinning	H
As it was growing dark	I
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And saying hushed untimely laughter	E
Henceforward we are one '	-
Went homewards Nor could ever after	E
Such Sanction be undone	F
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All were well clad but none were better	E
And gems beheld I none	F
Save where there hung a jewelled fetter	E
Symbolic in the sun	F
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I found Cathedral none nor steeple	J
Nor loud defiant choirs	D
No martyr worshipped by the people	J
On half extinguished pyres	D
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But oft exclaimed they one to other	E
Or as they passed or stood	A
Let us co perate my brother	E
For God is very good '	-
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I saw a noble looking maiden	F
Close Dante's solemn book	K
Go and return with linen laden	F
And wash it in the brook	K
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Anon a broad browed poet dragging	H
Logs for his hearth along	G
Without one single moment flagging	H
In shaping of his song	G
	-
Each one some handicraft attempted	A
Or holp the willing soil	L
None but the ag d were exempted	A
From communistic toil	L
	-
Yet 'twas nor long nor unremitting	H
Since shared in by the whole	M
But left to each one as is fitting	H
Full leisure for the Soul	M
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Was many a group in allocution	F
On problems that delight	A
And lift when e'en beyond solution	F
Man to a nobler height	A
	-
And oftentimes was brave contention	F
Such as beseems the wise	D
But always courteous abstention	F
From over swift replies	D
	-
And I remarked though whilst debating	H
'Twas settled what they sought	A
There was completest vindicating	H
Of unrestricted thought	A
	-
Age lorded not nor rose the hectic	H
Up to the cheek of Youth	N
But reigned throughout their dialectic	H
Sobriety of truth	N
	-
And if a long held contest tended	A
To ill defined result	A
It was by calm consent suspended	A
As over difficult	A
	-
And verse or music was demanded	A
Then solitude of night	A
By which all potent Three expanded	A
Waxeth the Inner Sight	A
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So far the city All around it	A
Olive or vine or corn	F
Those having pressed or trod or ground it	A
By these 'twas townwards borne	F
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And placed in halls unbarred and splendid	A
With none to overlook	H
But whither each at leisure wended	A
And what he wanted took	H
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I saw no crippled forms nor meagre	E
None smitten by disease	D
Only the old nor loth nor eager	E
Dying by sweet degrees	D
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And when without or pain or trouble	J
These sank as sinks the sun	F
This is the sole Inevitable '	-
All said His will be done '	-
	-
And went with music ever swelling	H
Where slopes o'erlook the sea	D
Piled up the corse with herbs sweet smelling	H
Consumed and so set free	D
	-
O'er ocean wave and mountain daisy	D
As curled the perfumed smoke	H
The notes grew faint the vision hazy	D
Straining my sense I woke	H
	-
Swift I arose Soft winds were stirring	H
The curtains of the Morn	F
Auguring day by signs unerring	H
Lovely as e'er was born	F
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No bluer calmer sky surmounted	A
The city of my dream	O
And what few trees could then be counted	A
Did full as gracious seem	O
	-
But here the pleasant likeness ended	A
Between the cities twain	F
Level and straight these streets extended	A
Over an easy plain	F
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Withal the people who thus early	D
Began the ways to throng	H
With curving back and visage surly	D
Toiled painfully along	H
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Groups of them met at yet closed portals	D
And huddled round the gate	A
Patient as smit by the Immortals	D
And helots as by Fate	A
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Right many a cross crowned front and steeple	J
Clave the cerulean air	E
As grew the concourse of the people	J
They rang to rival prayer	E
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On their confronting walls were posted	A
Placards in glaring type	P
Whereof there was not one but boasted	A
Truth full grown round and ripe	P
	-
And with this self congratulation	F
Each one the other banned	A
With threats of durable damnation	F
From the Eternal Hand	A
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Hard by were challenges to wrangle	J
On any themes or all	Q
From the trisection of the angle	J
To what they termed the Fall	Q
	-
Surmounting these were Forms forbidding	H
Some strife about the Flood	A
Since in such points divine unthridding	H
Shed had been human blood	A
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From arch and alley sodden wretches	D
Crept out in half attire	E
And groped for fetid husks and vetches	D
In heaps of tossed out mire	E
	-
Until disturbed by horses' trample	J
Bearing the homeward gay	H
Who sleek and warm with ermines ample	J
And glittering diamond spray	H
	-
That lightly flecked the classic ripple	J
Of their full flowing hair	E
For shivering child and leprous cripple	J
Had not a look to spare	E
	-
With garments which the morn ill mated	A
Anon came youths along	H
From side to side they oscillated	A
And trolled a shameful song	H
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Fair as is fair a cankered lily	D
A girl who late did lie	R
Beneath my window slumbrous stilly	R
Rose as these youths came nigh	R
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She seized the comeliest and stroked him	S
And plied each foul device	D
And having to her flesh provoked him	S
Then haggled for the price	D
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Hereat my heart this long while throbbing	H
And brimming by degrees	D
O'erflowed and passionately sobbing	H
I dropped upon my knees	D
	-
And made forgetful by the fluster	E
Of trouble's fierce extreme	O
I cried O Thou the great Adjuster	E
God realise my dream '	-
	-
Up came the sun and straight were shining	H
Steeple and sill and roof	T
To such rash prayer and bold repining	H
A visible reproof	T
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Rebuked I rose from genuflexion	F
And did no more blaspheme	O
Closing mine eyes for retrospection	F
Of the departed dream	O
	-
Where men saluted one the other	E
Or as they passed or stood	A
Let us co perate my brother	E
For God is very good '	-
	-
And I resolved by contrast smitten	F
To live and strive by Law	R
And first to write as here are written	F
The Visions Twain I saw	R