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Locksley Hall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Comrades leave me here a little while as yet 't is early morn	A
Leave me here and when you want me sound upon the bugle horn	A
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'T is the place and all around it as of old the curlews call	B
Dreary gleams about the moorland flying over Locksley Hall	B
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Locksley Hall that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts	C
And the hollow ocean ridges roaring into cataracts	C
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Many a night from yonder ivied casement ere I went to rest	D
Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West	D
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Many a night I saw the Pleiads rising thro' the mellow shade	E
Glitter like a swarm of fire flies tangled in a silver braid	E
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Here about the beach I wander'd nourishing a youth sublime	F
With the fairy tales of science and the long result of Time	F
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When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed	E
When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed	E
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When I dipt into the future far as human eye could see	G
Saw the Vision of the world and all the wonder that would be	G
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In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast	E
In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest	E
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In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove	H
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love	H
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Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young	I
And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung	I
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And I said My cousin Amy speak and speak the truth to me	G
Trust me cousin all the current of my being sets to thee	G
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On her pallid cheek and forehead came a colour and a light	E
As I have seen the rosy red flushing in the northern night	E
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And she turn'd her bosom shaken with a sudden storm of sighs	J
All the spirit deeply dawning in the dark of hazel eyes	J
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Saying I have hid my feelings fearing they should do me wrong	K
Saying Dost thou love me cousin weeping I have loved thee long	K
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Love took up the glass of Time and turn'd it in his glowing hands	L
Every moment lightly shaken ran itself in golden sands	L
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Love took up the harp of Life and smote on all the chords with might	E
Smote the chord of Self that trembling pass'd in music out of sight	E
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Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring	M
And her whisper throng'd my pulses with the fulness of the Spring	M
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Many an evening by the waters did we watch the stately ships	N
And our spirits rush'd together at the touching of the lips	N
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O my cousin shallow hearted O my Amy mine no more	O
O the dreary dreary moorland O the barren barren shore	O
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Falser than all fancy fathoms falser than all songs have sung	I
Puppet to a father's threat and servile to a shrewish tongue	I
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Is it well to wish thee happy having known me to decline	P
On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine	P
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Yet it shall be thou shalt lower to his level day by day	E
What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize with clay	E
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As the husband is the wife is thou art mated with a clown	Q
And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down	Q
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He will hold thee when his passion shall have spent its novel force	R
Something better than his dog a little dearer than his horse	R
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What is this his eyes are heavy think not they are glazed with wine	P
Go to him it is thy duty kiss him take his hand in thine	P
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It may be my lord is weary that his brain is overwrought	E
Soothe him with thy finer fancies touch him with thy lighter thought	E
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He will answer to the purpose easy things to understand	E
Better thou wert dead before me tho' I slew thee with my hand	E
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Better thou and I were lying hidden from the heart's disgrace	S
Roll'd in one another's arms and silent in a last embrace	S
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Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth	T
Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth	T
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Cursed be the sickly forms that err from honest Nature's rule	U
Cursed be the gold that gilds the straiten'd forehead of the fool	U
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Well 't is well that I should bluster Hadst thou less unworthy proved	E
Would to God for I had loved thee more than ever wife was loved	E
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Am I mad that I should cherish that which bears but bitter fruit	E
I will pluck it from my bosom tho' my heart be at the root	E
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Never tho' my mortal summers to such length of years should come	V
As the many winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home	W
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Where is comfort in division of the records of the mind	E
Can I part her from herself and love her as I knew her kind	E
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I remember one that perish'd sweetly did she speak and move	X
Such a one do I remember whom to look at was to love	H
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Can I think of her as dead and love her for the love she bore	O
No she never loved me truly love is love for evermore	O
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Comfort comfort scorn'd of devils this is truth the poet sings	Y
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things	Y
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Drug thy memories lest thou learn it lest thy heart be put to proof	Z
In the dead unhappy night and when the rain is on the roof	Z
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Like a dog he hunts in dreams and thou art staring at the wall	B
Where the dying night lamp flickers and the shadows rise and fall	B
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Then a hand shall pass before thee pointing to his drunken sleep	A2
To thy widow'd marriage pillows to the tears that thou wilt weep	A2
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Thou shalt hear the Never never whisper'd by the phantom years	B2
And a song from out the distance in the ringing of thine ears	B2
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And an eye shall vex thee looking ancient kindness on thy pain	C2
Turn thee turn thee on thy pillow get thee to thy rest again	D2
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Nay but Nature brings thee solace for a tender voice will cry	E2
'T is a purer life than thine a lip to drain thy trouble dry	E2
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Baby lips will laugh me down my latest rival brings thee rest	E
Baby fingers waxen touches press me from the mother's breast	E
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O the child too clothes the father with a dearness not his due	E
Half is thine and half is his it will be worthy of the two	E
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O I see thee old and formal fitted to thy petty part	E
With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart	E
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They were dangerous guides the feelings she herself was not exempt	E
Truly she herself had suffer'd Perish in thy self contempt	E
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Overlive it lower yet be happy wherefore should I care	F2
I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair	F2
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What is that which I should turn to lighting upon days like these	G2
Every door is barr'd with gold and opens but to golden keys	G2
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Every gate is throng'd with suitors all the markets overflow	H2
I have but an angry fancy what is that which I should do	E
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I had been content to perish falling on the foeman's ground	E
When the ranks are roll'd in vapour and the winds are laid with sound	E
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But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels	I2
And the nations do but murmur snarling at each other's heels	I2
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Can I but relive in sadness I will turn that earlier page	J2
Hide me from my deep emotion O thou wondrous Mother Age	J2
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Make me feel the wild pulsation that I felt before the strife	K2
When I heard my days before me and the tumult of my life	K2
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Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield	E
Eager hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field	E
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And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn	L2
Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn	L2
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And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then	D2
Underneath the light he looks at in among the throngs of men	D2
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Men my brothers men the workers ever reaping something new	E
That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do	E
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For I dipt into the future far as human eye could see	G
Saw the Vision of the world and all the wonder that would be	G
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Saw the heavens fill with commerce argosies of magic sails	M2
Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales	M2
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Heard the heavens fill with shouting and there rain'd a ghastly dew	E
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue	E
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Far along the world wide whisper of the south wind rushing warm	N2
With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder storm	N2
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Till the war drum throbb'd no longer and the battle flags were furl'd	E
In the Parliament of man the Federation of the world	E
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There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe	O2
And the kindly earth shall slumber lapt in universal law	P2
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So I triumph'd ere my passion sweeping thro' me left me dry	E2
Left me with the palsied heart and left me with the jaundiced eye	E2
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Eye to which all order festers all things here are out of joint	E
Science moves but slowly slowly creeping on from point to point	E
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Slowly comes a hungry people as a lion creeping nigher	E2
Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly dying fire	E2
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Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs	Q2
And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns	Q2
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What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys	R2
Tho' the deep heart of existence beat for ever like a boy's	R2
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Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers and I linger on the shore	E2
And the individual withers and the world is more and more	E2
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Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers and he bears a laden breast	E
Full of sad experience moving toward the stillness of his rest	E
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Hark my merry comrades call me sounding on the bugle horn	A
They to whom my foolish passion were a target for their scorn	A
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Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string	M
I am shamed thro' all my nature to have loved so slight a thing	M
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Weakness to be wroth with weakness woman's pleasure woman's pain	C2
Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain	C2
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Woman is the lesser man and all thy passions match'd with mine	P
Are as moonlight unto sunlight and as water unto wine	P
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Here at least where nature sickens nothing Ah for some retreat	E
Deep in yonder shining Orient where my life began to beat	E
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Where in wild Mahratta battle fell my father evil starr'd	E
I was left a trampled orphan and a selfish uncle's ward	E
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Or to burst all links of habit there to wander far away	E
On from island unto island at the gateways of the day	E
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Larger constellations burning mellow moons and happy skies	J
Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster knots of Paradise	S2
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Never comes the trader never floats an European flag	T2
Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland swings the trailer from the crag	T2
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Droops the heavy blossom'd bower hangs the heavy fruited tree	E2
Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea	E2
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There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind	E
In the steamship in the railway in the thoughts that shake mankind	E
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There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing space	S
I will take some savage woman she shall rear my dusky race	S
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Iron jointed supple sinew'd they shall dive and they shall run	U2
Catch the wild goat by the hair and hurl their lances in the sun	U2
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Whistle back the parrot's call and leap the rainbows of the brooks	V2
Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books	V2
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Fool again the dream the fancy but I know my words are wild	E
But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child	E
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I to herd with narrow foreheads vacant of our glorious gains	W2
Like a beast with lower pleasures like a beast with lower pains	W2
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Mated with a squalid savage what to me were sun or clime	N2
I the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time	N2
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I that rather held it better men should perish one by one	U2
Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon	U2
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Not in vain the distance beacons Forward forward let us range	X2
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change	X2
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Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day	E
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay	E
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Mother Age for mine I knew not help me as when life begun	U2
Rift the hills and roll the waters flash the lightnings weigh the Sun	U2
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O I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set	E
Ancient founts of inspiration well thro' all my fancy yet	E
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Howsoever these things be a long farewell to Locksley Hall	B
Now for me the woods may wither now for me the roof tree fall	B
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Comes a vapour from the margin blackening over heath and holt	E
Cramming all the blast before it in its breast a thunderbolt	E
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Let it fall on Locksley Hall with rain or hail or fire or snow	U2
For the mighty wind arises roaring seaward and I go	U2