A New-year Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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To Victor Hugo	A
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I	-
Twice twelve times have the springs of years refilled	B
Their fountains from the river head of time	C
Since by the green sea's marge ere autumn chilled	B
Waters and woods with sense of changing clime	C
A great light rose upon my soul and thrilled	B
My spirit of sense with sense of spheres in chime	C
Sound as of song wherewith a God would build	B
Towers that no force of conquering war might climb	C
Wind shook the glimmering sea	D
Even as my soul in me	D
Was stirred with breath of mastery more sublime	C
Uplift and borne along	E
More thunderous tides of song	E
Where wave rang back to wave more rapturous rhyme	C
And world on world flashed lordlier light	F
Than ever lit the wandering ways of ships by night	F
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II	-
The spirit of God whose breath of life is song	E
Moved though his word was human on the face	G
Of those deep waters of the soul too long	E
Dumb dark and cold that waited for the grace	G
Wherewith day kindles heaven and as some throng	E
Of quiring wings fills full some lone chill place	G
With sudden rush of life and joy more strong	E
Than death or sorrow or all night's darkling race	G
So was my heart that heard	H
All heaven in each deep word	H
Filled full with light of thought and waxed apace	G
Itself more wide and deep	I
To take that gift and keep	I
And cherish while my days fulfilled their space	G
A record wide as earth and sea	D
The Legend writ of Ages past and yet to be	D
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III	-
As high the chant of Paradise and Hell	J
Rose when the soul of Milton gave it wings	K
As wide the sweep of Shakespeare's empire fell	J
When life had bared for him her secret springs	K
But not his various soul might range and dwell	J
Amid the mysteries of the founts of things	K
Nor Milton's range of rule so far might swell	J
Across the kingdoms of forgotten kings	K
Men centuries nations time	C
Life death love trust and crime	C
Rang record through the change of smitten strings	K
That felt an exile's hand	L
Sound hope for every land	L
More loud than storm's cloud sundering trumpet rings	K
And bid strong death for judgment rise	M
And life bow down for judgment of his awless eyes	M
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IV	N
And death soul stricken in his strength resigned	O
The keeping of the sepulchres to song	E
And life was humbled and his height of mind	O
Brought lower than lies a grave stone fallen along	E
And like a ghost and like a God mankind	O
Rose clad with light and darkness weak and strong	E
Clean and unclean with eyes afire and blind	O
Wounded and whole fast bound with cord and thong	E
Free fair and foul sin stained	P
And sinless crowned and chained	P
Fleet limbed and halting all his lifetime long	E
Glad of deep shame and sad	Q
For shame's sake wise and mad	Q
Girt round with love and hate of right and wrong	E
Armed and disarmed for sleep and strife	N
Proud and sore fear made havoc of his pride of life	N
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V	N
Shadows and shapes of fable and storied sooth	R
Rose glorious as with gleam of gold unpriced	Q
Eve clothed with heavenly nakedness and youth	R
That matched the morning's Cain self sacrificed	Q
On crime's first altar legends wise as truth	R
And truth in legends deep embalmed and spiced	Q
The stars that saw the starlike eyes of Ruth	R
The grave that heard the clarion call of Christ	Q
And higher than sorrow and mirth	R
The heavenly song of earth	R
Sprang in such notes as might have well sufficed	Q
To still the storms of time	C
And sin's contentious clime	C
With peace renewed of life reparadised	Q
Earth scarred not yet with temporal scars	S
Goddess of gods our mother chosen among the stars	S
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VI	N
Earth fair as heaven ere change and time set odds	T
Between them light and darkness know not when	U
And fear grown strong through panic periods	V
Crouched a crowned worm in faith's Lernean fen	U
And love lay bound and hope was scourged with rods	T
And death cried out from desert and from den	U
Seeing all the heaven above him dark with gods	T
And all the world about him marred of men	U
Cities that nought might purge	W
Save the sea's whelming surge	W
From all the pent pollutions in their pen	U
Deep death drank down and wrought	Q
With wreck of all things nought	Q
That none might live of all their names again	U
Nor aught of all whose life is breath	R
Serve any God whose likeness was not like to death	R
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VII	N
Till by the lips and eyes of one live nation	X
The blind mute world found grace to see and speak	Y
And light watched rise a more divine creation	X
At that more godlike utterance of the Greek	Y
Let there be freedom Kings whose orient station	X
Made pale the morn and all her presage bleak	Y
Girt each with strengths of all his generation	X
Dim tribes of shamefaced soul and sun swart cheek	Y
Twice urged with one desire	Z
Son following hard on sire	Z
With all the wrath of all a world to wreak	Y
And all the rage of night	Q
Afire against the light	Q
Whose weakness makes her strong winged empire weak	Y
Stood up to unsay that saying and fell	J
Too far for song though song were thousand tongued to tell	J
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VIII	N
From those deep echoes of the loud gean	A2
That rolled response whereat false fear was chid	Q
By songs of joy sublime and Sophoclean	A2
Fresh notes reverberate westward rose to bid	Q
All wearier times take comfort from the p an	A2
That tells the night what deeds the sunrise did	Q
Even till the lawns and torrents Pyrenean	A2
Ring answer from the records of the Cid	Q
But never force of fountains	B2
From sunniest hearts of mountains	B2
Wherein the soul of hidden June was hid	Q
Poured forth so pure and strong	E
Springs of reiterate song	E
Loud as the streams his fame was reared amid	Q
More sweet than flowers they feed and fair	C2
With grace of lordlier sunshine and more lambent air	C2
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IX	B2
A star more prosperous than the storm clothed east's	B2
Clothed all the warm south west with light like spring's	B2
When hands of strong men spread the wolves their feasts	B2
And from snake spirited princes plucked the stings	B2
Ere earth grown all one den of hurtling beasts	B2
Had for her sunshine and her watersprings	B2
The fire of hell that warmed the hearts of priests	B2
The wells of blood that slaked the lips of kings	B2
The shadow of night made stone	A2
Stood populous and alone	A2
Dense with its dead and loathed of living things	B2
That draw not life from death	R
And as with hell's own breath	R
And clangour of immitigable wings	B2
Vexed the fair face of Paris made	Q
Foul in its murderous imminence of sound and shade	Q
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X	B2
And all these things were parcels of the vision	A2
That moved a cloud before his eyes or stood	Q
A tower half shattered by the strong collision	A2
Of spirit and spirit of evil gods with good	Q
A ruinous wall rent through with grim division	A2
Where time had marked his every monstrous mood	Q
Of scorn and strength and pride and self derision	A2
The Tower of Things that felt upon it brood	Q
Night and about it cast	Q
The storm of all the past	Q
Now mute and forceless as a fire subdued	Q
Yet through the rifted years	B2
And centuries veiled with tears	B2
And ages as with very death imbrued	Q
Freedom whence hope and faith grow strong	E
Smiles and firm love sustains the indissoluble song	E
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XI	B2
Above the cloudy coil of days deceased	Q
Its might of flight with mists and storms beset	Q
Burns heavenward as with heart and hope increased	Q
For all the change of tempests all the fret	Q
Of frost or fire keen fraud or force released	Q
Wherewith the world once wasted knows not yet	Q
If evil or good lit all the darkling east	Q
From the ardent moon of sovereign Mahomet	Q
Sublime in work and will	D2
The song sublimer still	D2
Salutes him ere the splendour shrink and set	Q
Then with imperious eye	N
And wing that sounds the sky	N
Soars and sees risen as ghosts in concourse met	Q
The old world's seven elder wonders firm	C
As dust and fixed as shadows weaker than the worm	C
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XII	B2
High witness borne of knights high souled and hoary	B2
Before death's face and empire's rings and glows	B2
Even from the dust their life poured forth left gory	B2
As the eagle's cry rings after from the snows	B2
Supreme rebuke of shame clothed round with glory	B2
And hosts whose track the false crowned eagle shows	B2
More loud than sounds through stormiest song and story	B2
The laugh of slayers whose names the sea wind knows	B2
More loud than peals on land	Q
In many a red wet hand	Q
The clash of gold and cymbals as they close	B2
Loud as the blast that meets	B2
The might of marshalled fleets	B2
And sheds it into shipwreck like a rose	B2
Blown from a child's light grasp in sign	A2
That earth's high lords are lords not over breeze and brine	A2
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XIII	B2
Above the dust and mire of man's dejection	A2
The wide winged spirit of song resurgent sees	B2
His wingless and long labouring resurrection	A2
Up the arduous heaven by sore and strange degrees	B2
Mount and with splendour of the soul's reflection	A2
Strike heaven's dark sovereign down upon his knees	B2
Pale in the light of orient insurrection	A2
And dumb before the almightier lord's decrees	B2
Who bade him be of yore	E2
Who bids him be no more	E2
And all earth's heart is quickened as the sea's	B2
Even as when sunrise burns	B2
The very sea's heart yearns	B2
That heard not on the midnight walking breeze	B2
The wail that woke with evensong	N
From hearts of poor folk watching all the darkness long	N
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XIV	N
Dawn and the beams of sunbright song illume	C
Love with strange children at her piteous breast	Q
By grace of weakness from the grave mouthed gloom	C
Plucked and by mercy lulled to living rest	Q
Soft as the nursling's nigh the grandsire's tomb	C
That fell on sleep a bird of rifled nest	Q
Soft as the lips whose smile unsaid the doom	C
That gave their sire to violent death's arrest	Q
Even for such love's sake strong	N
Wrath fires the inveterate song	N
That bids hell gape for one whose bland mouth blest	Q
All slayers and liars that sighed	Q
Prayer as they slew and lied	Q
Till blood had clothed his priesthood as a vest	Q
And hears though darkness yet be dumb	C
The silence of the trumpet of the wrath to come	C
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XV	N
Nor lacked these lights of constellated age	F2
A star among them fed with life more dire	G2
Lit with his bloodied fame whose withering rage	F2
Made earth for heaven's sake one funereal pyre	Z
And life in faith's name one appointed stage	F2
For death to purge the souls of men with fire	Z
Heaven earth and hell on one thrice tragic page	F2
Mixed all their light and darkness one man's lyre	G2
Gave all their echoes voice	B2
Bade rose cheeked love rejoice	B2
And cold lipped craft with ravenous fear conspire	Z
And fire eyed faith smite hope	H2
Dead seeing enthroned as Pope	H2
And crowned of heaven on earth at hell's desire	Z
Sin called by death's incestuous name	C
Borgia the world that heard it flushed and quailed with shame	C
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XVI	N
Another year and hope triumphant heard	Q
The consummating sound of song that spake	N
Conclusion to the multitudinous word	Q
Whose expectation held her spirit awake	N
Till full delight for twice twelve years deferred	Q
Bade all souls entering eat and drink and take	N
A third time comfort given them that the third	Q
Might heap the measure up of twain and make	N
The sinking year sublime	C
Among all sons of time	C
And fan in all men's memories for his sake	N
Each thought of ours became	C
Fire kindling from his flame	C
And music widening in his wide song's wake	N
Yea and the world bore witness here	I2
How great a light was risen upon this darkening year	J2
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XVII	N
It was the dawn of winter sword in sheath	R
Change veiled and mild came down the gradual air	C2
With cold slow smiles that hid the doom beneath	R
Five days to die in yet were autumn's ere	C2
The last leaf withered from his flowerless wreath	R
South east and north our skies were all blown bare	C2
But westward over glimmering holt and heath	R
Cloud wind and light had made a heaven more fair	C2
Than ever dream or truth	R
Showed earth in time's keen youth	R
When men with angels communed unaware	C2
Above the sun's head now	A2
Veiled even to the ardent brow	A2
Rose two sheer wings of sundering cloud that were	Z
As a bird's poised for vehement flight	Q
Full fledged with plumes of tawny fire and hoar grey light	Q
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XVIII	N
As midnight black as twilight brown they spread	Q
But feathered thick with flame that streaked and lined	Q
Their living darkness ominous else of dread	Q
From south to northmost verge of heaven inclined	Q
Most like some giant angel's whose bent head	Q
Bowed earthward as with message for mankind	Q
Of doom or benediction to be shed	Q
From passage of his presence Far behind	Q
Even while they seemed to close	B2
Stoop and take flight arose	B2
Above them higher than heavenliest thought may find	Q
In light or night supreme	C
Of vision or of dream	C
Immeasurable of men's eyes or mounting mind	Q
Heaven manifest in manifold	Q
Light of pure pallid amber cheered with fire of gold	Q
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XIX	B2
And where the fine gold faded all the sky	N
Shone green as the outer sea when April glows	B2
Inlaid with flakes and feathers fledged to fly	N
Of cloud suspense in rapture and repose	B2
With large live petals broad as love bids lie	N
Full open when the sun salutes the rose	B2
And small rent sprays wherewith the heavens most high	N
Were strewn as autumn strews the garden close	B2
With ruinous roseleaves whirled	Q
About their wan chill world	Q
Through wind worn bowers that now no music knows	B2
Spoil of the dim dusk year	J2
Whose utter night is near	J2
And near the flower of dawn beyond it blows	B2
Till east and west were fire and light	Q
As though the dawn to come had flushed the coming night	Q
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XX	B2
The highways paced of men that toil or play	K2
The byways known of none but lonely feet	Q
Were paven of purple woven of night and day	K2
With hands that met as hands of friends might meet	Q
As though night's were not lifted up to slay	K2
And day's had waxed not weaker Peace more sweet	Q
Than music light more soft than shadow lay	K2
On downs and moorlands wan with day's defeat	Q
That watched afar above	N
Life's very rose of love	N
Let all its lustrous leaves fall fade and fleet	Q
And fill all heaven and earth	R
Full as with fires of birth	R
Whence time should feed his years with light and heat	Q
Nay not life's but a flower more strong	N
Than life or time or death love's very rose of song	N
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XXI	B2
Song visible whence all men's eyes were lit	Q
With love and loving wonder song that glowed	Q
Through cloud and change on souls that knew not it	Q
And hearts that wist not whence their comfort flowed	Q
Whence fear was lightened of her fever fit	Q
Whence anguish of her life compelling load	Q
Yea no man's head whereon the fire alit	Q
Of all that passed along that sunset road	Q
Westward no brow so drear	J2
No eye so dull of cheer	J2
No face so mean whereon that light abode	Q
But as with alien pride	Q
Strange godhead glorified	Q
Each feature flushed from heaven with fire that showed	Q
The likeness of its own life wrought	Q
By strong transfiguration as of living thought	Q
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XXII	B2
Nor only clouds of the everlasting sky	N
Nor only men that paced that sunward way	K2
To the utter bourne of evening passed not by	N
Unblest or unillumined none might say	K2
Of all things visible in the wide world's eye	N
That all too low for all that grace it lay	K2
The lowliest lakelets of the moorland nigh	N
The narrowest pools where shallowest wavelets play	K2
Were filled from heaven above	N
With light like fire of love	N
With flames and colours like a dawn in May	K2
As hearts that lowlier live	N
With light of thoughts that give	N
Light from the depth of souls more deep than they	K2
Through song's or story's kindling scroll	L2
The splendour of the shadow that reveals the soul	L2
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XXIII	K2
For when such light is in the world we share	J2
All of us all the rays thereof that shine	A2
Its presence is alive in the unseen air	J2
Its fire within our veins as quickening wine	A2
A spirit is shed on all men everywhere	J2
Known or not known of all men for divine	A2
Yea as the sun makes heaven that light makes fair	J2
All souls of ours all lesser souls than thine	A2
Priest prophet seer and sage	F2
Lord of a subject age	F2
That bears thy seal upon it for a sign	A2
Whose name shall be thy name	C
Whose light thy light of fame	C
The light of love that makes thy soul a shrine	A2
Whose record through all years to be	B2
Shall bear this witness written that its womb bare thee	B2
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XXIV	N
O mystery whence to one man's hand was given	A2
Power upon all things of the spirit and might	Q
Whereby the veil of all the years was riven	A2
And naked stood the secret soul of night	Q
O marvel hailed of eyes whence cloud is driven	A2
That shows at last wrong reconciled with right	Q
By death divine of evil and sin forgiven	A2
O light of song whose fire is perfect light	Q
No speech no voice no thought	Q
No love avails us aught	Q
For service of thanksgiving in his sight	Q
Who hath given us all for ever	J2
Such gifts that man gave never	J2
So many and great since first Time's wings took flight	Q
Man may not praise a spirit above	N
Man's life and death shall praise him we can only love	N
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XXV	N
Life everlasting while the worlds endure	J2
Death self abased before a power more high	N
Shall bear one witness and their word stand sure	J2
That not till time be dead shall this man die	N
Love like a bird comes loyal to his lure	J2
Fame flies before him wingless else to fly	N
A child's heart toward his kind is not more pure	J2
An eagle's toward the sun no lordlier eye	N
Awe sweet as love and proud	Q
As fame though hushed and bowed	Q
Yearns toward him silent as his face goes by	N
All crowns before his crown	A2
Triumphantly bow down	A2
For pride that one more great than all draws nigh	N
All souls applaud all hearts acclaim	C
One heart benign one soul supreme one conquering name	C

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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