The High Oaks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDBEEBBFGGGFBBHH BIIIBBBAABJJJBBBKKLM MMLBBBBNKKKNFFOOBPPP BBBPPQPPPQRRSSEBBBET TJJOUUUOHHUUPVVVPPPW WABBBAXXFourscore years and seven | A |
Light and dew from heaven | A |
Have fallen with dawn on these glad woods each day | B |
Since here was born even here | C |
A birth more bright and dear | D |
Than ever a younger year | D |
Hath seen or shall till all these pass away | B |
Even all the imperious pride of these | E |
The woodland ways majestic now with towers of trees | E |
Love itself hath nought | B |
Touched of tenderest thought | B |
With holiest hallowing of memorial grace | F |
For memory blind with bliss | G |
To love to clasp to kiss | G |
So sweetly strange as this | G |
The sense that here the sun first hailed her face | F |
A babe at Her glad mother's breast | B |
And here again beholds it more beloved and blest | B |
Love's own heart a living | H |
Spring of strong thanksgiving | H |
Can bid no strength of welling song find way | B |
When all the soul would seek | I |
One word for joy to speak | I |
And even its strength makes weak | I |
The too strong yearning of the soul to say | B |
What may not be conceived or said | B |
While darkness makes division of the quick and dead | B |
Haply where the sun | A |
Wanes and death is none | A |
The word known here of silence only held | B |
Too dear for speech to wrong | J |
May leap in living song | J |
Forth and the speech be strong | J |
As here the silence whence it yearned and welled | B |
From hearts whose utterance love sealed fast | B |
Till death perchance might give it grace to live at last | B |
Here we have our earth | K |
Yet with all the mirth | K |
Of all the summers since the world began | L |
All strengths of rest and strife | M |
And love lit love of life | M |
Where death has birth to wife | M |
And where the sun speaks and is heard of man | L |
Yea half the sun's bright speech is heard | B |
And like the sea the soul of man gives back his word | B |
Earth's enkindled heart | B |
Bears benignant part | B |
In the ardent heaven's auroral pride of prime | N |
If ever home on earth | K |
Were found of heaven's grace worth | K |
So God beloved a birth | K |
As here makes bright the fostering face of time | N |
Here heaven bears witness might such grace | F |
Fall fragrant as the dewfall on that brightening face | F |
Here for mine and me | O |
All that eyes may see | O |
Hath more than all the wide world else of good | B |
All nature else of fair | P |
Here as none otherwhere | P |
Heaven is the circling air | P |
Heaven is the homestead heaven the wold the wood | B |
The fragrance with the shadow spread | B |
From broadening wings of cedars breathes of dawn's bright bed | B |
Once a dawn rose here | P |
More divine and dear | P |
Rose on a birth bed brighter far than dawn's | Q |
Whence all the summer grew | P |
Sweet as when earth was new | P |
And pure as Eden's dew | P |
And yet its light lives on these lustrous lawns | Q |
Clings round these wildwood ways and cleaves | R |
To the aisles of shadow and sun that wind unweaves and weaves | R |
Thoughts that smile and weep | S |
Dreams that hallow sleep | S |
Brood in the branching shadows of the trees | E |
Tall trees at agelong rest | B |
Wherein the centuries nest | B |
Whence blest as these are blest | B |
We part and part not from delight in these | E |
Whose comfort sleeping as awake | T |
We bear about within us as when first it spake | T |
Comfort as of song | J |
Grown with time more strong | J |
Made perfect and prophetic as the sea | O |
Whose message when it lies | U |
Far off our hungering eyes | U |
Within us prophesies | U |
Of life not ours yet ours as theirs may be | O |
Whose souls far off us shine and sing | H |
As ere they sprang back sunward swift as fire might spring | H |
All this oldworld pleasance | U |
Hails a hallowing presence | U |
And thrills with sense of more than summer near | P |
And lifts toward heaven more high | V |
The song surpassing cry | V |
Of rapture that July | V |
Lives for her love who makes it loveliest here | P |
For joy that she who here first drew | P |
The breath of life she gave me breathes it here anew | P |
Never birthday born | W |
Highest in height of morn | W |
Whereout the star looks forth that leads the sun | A |
Shone higher in love's account | B |
Still seeing the mid noon mount | B |
From the eager dayspring's fount | B |
Each year more lustrous each like all in one | A |
Whose light around us and above | X |
We could not see so lovely save by grace of love | X |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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