After A Reading Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBCCCDDDEEEFFFGG GHHHIIIJKKFor the seven times seventh time love would renew the delight without end or alloy | A |
That it takes in the praise as it takes in the presence of eyes that fulfil it with joy | A |
But how shall it praise them and rest unrebuked by the presence and pride of the boy | A |
Praise meet for a child is unmeet for an elder whose winters and springs are nine | B |
What song may have strength in its wings to expand them or light in its eyes to shine | B |
That shall seem not as weakness and darkness if matched with the theme I would fain make mine | B |
The round little flower of a face that exults in the sunshine of shadowless days | C |
Defies the delight it enkindles to sing of it aught not unfit for the praise | C |
Of the sweetest of all things that eyes may rejoice in and tremble with love as they gaze | C |
Such tricks and such meanings abound on the lips and the brows that are brighter than light | D |
The demure little chin the sedate little nose and the forehead of sun stained white | D |
That love overflows into laughter and laughter subsides into love at the sight | D |
Each limb and each feature has action in tune with the meaning that smiles as it speaks | E |
From the fervour of eyes and the fluttering of hands in a foretaste of fancies and freaks | E |
When the thought of them deepens the dimples that laugh in the corners and curves of his cheeks | E |
As a bird when the music within her is yet too intense to be spoken in song | F |
That pauses a little for pleasure to feel how the notes from withinwards throng | F |
So pauses the laugh at his lips for a little and waxes within more strong | F |
As the music elate and triumphal that bids all things of the dawn bear part | G |
With the tune that prevails when her passion has risen into rapture of passionate art | G |
So lightens the laughter made perfect that leaps from its nest in the heaven of his heart | G |
Deep grave and sedate is the gaze of expectant intensity bent for awhile | H |
And absorbed on its aim as the tale that enthralls him uncovers the weft of its wile | H |
Till the goal of attention is touched and expectancy kisses delight in a smile | H |
And it seems to us here that in Paradise hardly the spirit of Lamb or of Blake | I |
May hear or behold aught sweeter than lightens and rings when his bright thoughts break | I |
In laughter that well might lure them to look and to smile as of old for his sake | I |
O singers that best loved children and best for their sakes are beloved of us here | J |
In the world of your life everlasting where love has no thorn and desire has no fear | K |
All else may be sweeter than aught is on earth nought dearer than these are dear | K |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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