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Tristram Of Lyonesse - I - Prelude: Tristram And Iseult Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Love that is first and last of all things made	A
The light that has the living world for shade	A
The spirit that for temporal veil has on	B
The souls of all men woven in unison	C
One fiery raiment with all lives inwrought	A
And lights of sunny and starry deed and thought	A
And alway through new act and passion new	D
Shines the divine same body and beauty through	D
The body spiritual of fire and light	A
That is to worldly noon as noon to night	A
Love that is flesh upon the spirit of man	E
And spirit within the flesh whence breath began	E
Love that keeps all the choir of lives in chime	F
Love that is blood within the veins of time	F
That wrought the whole world without stroke of hand	A
Shaping the breadth of sea the length of land	A
And with the pulse and motion of his breath	G
Through the great heart of the earth strikes life and death	G
The sweet twain chords that make the sweet tune live	H
Through day and night of things alternative	I
Through silence and through sound of stress and strife	J
And ebb and flow of dying death and life	J
Love that sounds loud or light in all men's ears	K
Whence all men's eyes take fire from sparks of tears	L
That binds on all men's feet or chains or wings	M
Love that is root and fruit of terrene things	M
Love that the whole world's waters shall not drown	N
The whole world's fiery forces not burn down	N
Love that what time his own hands guard his head	A
The whole world's wrath and strength shall not strike dead	A
Love that if once his own hands make his grave	O
The whole world's pity and sorrow shall not save	O
Love that for very life shall not be sold	A
Nor bought nor bound with iron nor with gold	A
So strong that heaven could love bid heaven farewell	P
Would turn to fruitless and unflowering hell	P
So sweet that hell to hell could love be given	C
Would turn to splendid and sonorous heaven	C
Love that is fire within thee and light above	Q
And lives by grace of nothing but of love	Q
Through many and lovely thoughts and much desire	R
Led these twain to the life of tears and fire	R
Through many and lovely days and much delight	A
Led these twain to the lifeless life of night	A
Yea but what then albeit all this were thus	S
And soul smote soul and left it ruinous	S
And love led love as eyeless men lead men	T
Through chance by chance to deathward Ah what then	T
Hath love not likewise led them further yet	A
Out through the years where memories rise and set	A
Some large as suns some moon like warm and pale	U
Some starry sighted some through clouds that sail	U
Seen as red flame through spectral float of fume	V
Each with the blush of its own special bloom	V
On the fair face of its own coloured light	A
Distinguishable in all the host of night	A
Divisible from all the radiant rest	A
And separable in splendour Hath the best	A
Light of love's all of all that burn and move	W
A better heaven than heaven is Hath not love	Q
Made for all these their sweet particular air	X
To shine in their own beams and names to bear	X
Their ways to wander and their wards to keep	Y
Till story and song and glory and all things sleep	Y
Hath he not plucked from death of lovers dead	A
Their musical soft memories and kept red	A
The rose of their remembrance in men's eyes	Z
The sunsets of their stories in his skies	Z
The blush of their dead blood in lips that speak	A2
Of their dead lives and in the listener's cheek	A2
That trembles with the kindling pity lit	A
In gracious hearts for some sweet fever fit	A
A fiery pity enkindled of pure thought	A
By tales that make their honey out of nought	A
The faithless faith that lives without belief	B2
Its light life through the griefless ghost of grief	B2
Yea as warm night refashions the sere blood	A
In storm struck petal or in sun struck bud	A
With tender hours and tempering dew to cure	C2
The hunger and thirst of day's distemperature	C2
And ravin of the dry discolouring hours	D2
Hath he not bid relume their flameless flowers	D2
With summer fire and heat of lamping song	E2
And bid the short lived things long dead live long	E2
And thought remake their wan funereal fames	D2
And the sweet shining signs of women's names	D2
That mark the months out and the weeks anew	D
He moves in changeless change of seasons through	D
To fill the days up of his dateless year	C2
Flame from Queen Helen to Queen Guenevere	C2
For first of all the sphery signs whereby	F2
Love severs light from darkness and most high	F2
In the white front of January there glows	D2
The rose red sign of Helen like a rose	D2
And gold eyed as the shore flower shelterless	D2
Whereon the sharp breathed sea blows bitterness	D2
A storm star that the seafarers of love	Q
Strain their wind wearied eyes for glimpses of	Q
Shoots keen through February's grey frost and damp	G2
The lamplike star of Hero for a lamp	G2
The star that Marlowe sang into our skies	D2
With mouth of gold and morning in his eyes	D2
And in clear March across the rough blue sea	D2
The signal sapphire of Alcyone	D
Makes bright the blown brows of the wind foot year	C2
And shining like a sunbeam smitten tear	C2
Full ere it fall the fair next sign in sight	A
Burns opal wise with April coloured light	A
When air is quick with song and rain and flame	H2
My birth month star that in love's heaven hath name	H2
Iseult a light of blossom and beam and shower	C2
My singing sign that makes the song tree flower	C2
Next like a pale and burning pearl beyond	A
The rose white sphere of flower named Rosamond	A
Signs the sweet head of Maytime and for June	D
Flares like an angered and storm reddening moon	D
Her signal sphere whose Carthaginian pyre	C2
Shadowed her traitor's flying sail with fire	C2
Next glittering as the wine bright jacinth stone	D
A star south risen that first to music shone	D
The keen girl star of golden Juliet bears	D2
Light northward to the month whose forehead wears	D2
Her name for flower upon it and his trees	D2
Mix their deep English song with Veronese	D2
And like an awful sovereign chrysolite	A
Burning the supreme fire that blinds the night	A
The hot gold head of Venus kissed by Mars	D2
A sun flower among small sphered flowers of stars	D2
The light of Cleopatra fills and burns	D2
The hollow of heaven whence ardent August yearns	D2
And fixed and shining as the sister shed	A
Sweet tears for Phaethon disorbed and dead	A
The pale bright autumn's amber coloured sphere	C2
That through September sees the saddening year	C2
As love sees change through sorrow hath to name	H2
Francesca's and the star that watches flame	H2
The embers of the harvest overgone	D
Is Thisbe's slain of love in Babylon	D
Set in the golden girdle of sweet signs	D2
A blood bright ruby last save one light shines	D2
An eastern wonder of sphery chrysopras	D2
The star that made men mad Angelica's	D2
And latest named and lordliest with a sound	A
Of swords and harps in heaven that ring it round	A
Last love light and last love song of the year's	D2
Gleams like a glorious emerald Guenevere's	D2
These are the signs wherethrough the year sees move	W
Full of the sun the sun god which is love	Q
A fiery body blood red from the heart	A
Outward with fire white wings made wide apart	A
That close not and unclose not but upright	A
Steered without wind by their own light and might	A
Sweep through the flameless fire of air that rings	D2
From heaven to heaven with thunder of wheels and wings	D2
And antiphones of motion moulded rhyme	F
Through spaces out of space and timeless time	F
So shine above dead chance and conquered change	I2
The spher d signs and leave without their range	I2
Doubt and desire and hope with fear for wife	J
Pale pains and pleasures long worn out of life	J
Yea even the shadows of them spiritless	D2
Through the dim door of sleep that seem to press	D2
Forms without form a piteous people and blind	A
Men and no men whose lamentable kind	A
The shadow of death and shadow of life compel	P
Through semblances of heaven and false faced hell	P
Through dreams of light and dreams of darkness tost	A
On waves innavigable are these so lost	A
Shapes that wax pale and shift in swift strange wise	D2
Void faces with unspeculative eyes	D2
Dim things that gaze and glare dead mouths that move	W
Featureless heads discrowned of hate and love	Q
Mockeries and masks of motion and mute breath	G
Leavings of life the superflux of death	G
If these things and no more than these things be	D2
Left when man ends or changes who can see	D2
Or who can say with what more subtle sense	D2
Their subtler natures taste in air less dense	D2
A life less thick and palpable than ours	D2
Warmed with faint fires and sweetened with dead flowers	D2
And measured by low music how time fares	D2
In that wan time forgotten world of theirs	D2
Their pale poor world too deep for sun or star	C2
To live in where the eyes of Helen are	C2
And hers who made as God's own eyes to shine	D
The eyes that met them of the Florentine	D
Wherein the godhead thence transfigured lit	A
All time for all men with the shadow of it	A
Ah and these too felt on them as God's grace	D2
The pity and glory of this man's breathing face	D2
For these too these my lovers these my twain	D
Saw Dante saw God visible by pain	D
With lips that thundered and with feet that trod	A
Before men's eyes incognisable God	A
Saw love and wrath and light and night and fire	C2
Live with one life and at one mouth respire	C2
And in one golden sound their whole soul heard	A
Sounding one sweet immitigable word	A
They have the night who had like us the day	A
We whom day binds shall have the night as they	A
We from the fetters of the light unbound	A
Healed of our wound of living shall sleep sound	A
All gifts but one the jealous God may keep	Y
From our soul's longing one he cannot sleep	Y
This though he grudge all other grace to prayer	C2
This grace his closed hand cannot choose but spare	C2
This though his ear be sealed to all that live	H
Be it lightly given or lothly God must give	I
We as the men whose name on earth is none	D
We too shall surely pass out of the sun	D
Out of the sound and eyeless light of things	D2
Wide as the stretch of life's time wandering wings	D2
Wide as the naked world and shadowless	D2
And long lived as the world's own weariness	D2
Us too when all the fires of time are cold	A
The heights shall hide us and the depths shall hold	A
Us too when all the tears of time are dry	C2
The night shall lighten from her tearless eye	C2
Blind is the day and eyeless all its light	A
But the large unbewildered eye of night	A
Hath sense and speculation and the sheer	C2
Limitless length of lifeless life and clear	C2
The timeless space wherein the brief worlds move	W
Clothed with light life and fruitful with light love	Q
With hopes that threaten and with fears that cease	D2
Past fear and hope hath in it only peace	D2
Yet of these lives inlaid with hopes and fears	D2
Spun fine as fire and jewelled thick with tears	D2
These lives made out of loves that long since were	C2
Lives wrought as ours of earth and burning air	C2
Fugitive flame and water of secret springs	D2
And clothed with joys and sorrows as with wings	D2
Some yet are good if aught be good to save	O
Some while from washing wreck and wrecking wave	O
Was such not theirs the twain I take and give	I
Out of my life to make their dead life live	H
Some days of mine and blow my living breath	G
Between dead lips forgotten even of death	G
So many and many of old have given my twain	D
Love and live song and honey hearted pain	D
Whose root is sweetness and whose fruit is sweet	A
So many and with such joy have tracked their feet	A
What should I do to follow yet I too	A
I have the heart to follow many or few	A
Be the feet gone before me for the way	A
Rose red with remnant roses of the day	A
Westward and eastward white with stars that break	J2
Between the green and foam is fair to take	J2
For any sail the sea wind steers for me	D2
From morning into morning sea to sea	D2