Hypocrite Auteur Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFFG GCCHHIIJJ K KLLMMNN OOPPQQR RRSS TTUU VWWX Y ZA2B2B2C2C2RRD2E2 F2F2YYG2G2H2I2 A2J2A2mon semblable mon fr re | A |
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Our epoch takes a voluptuous satisfaction | C |
In that perspective of the action | C |
Which pictures us inhabiting the end | D |
Of everything with death for only friend | D |
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Not that we love death | E |
Not truly not the fluttering breath | E |
The obscene shudder of the finished act | F |
What the doe feels when the ultimate fact | F |
Tears at her bowels with its jaws | G |
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Our taste is for the opulent pause | G |
Before the end comes If the end is certain | C |
All of us are players at the final curtain | C |
All of us silence for a time deferred | H |
Find time before us for one sad last word | H |
Victim rebel convert stoic | I |
Every role but the heroic | I |
We turn our tragic faces to the stalls | J |
To wince our moment till the curtain falls | J |
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A world ends when its metaphor has died | K |
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An age becomes an age all else beside | K |
When sensuous poets in their pride invent | L |
Emblems for the soul s consent | L |
That speak the meanings men will never know | M |
But man imagined images can show | M |
It perishes when those images though seen | N |
No longer mean | N |
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A world was ended when the womb | O |
Where girl held God became the tomb | O |
Where God lies buried in a man | P |
Botticelli s image neither speaks nor can | P |
To our kind His star guided stranger | Q |
Teaches no longer by the child the manger | Q |
The meaning of the beckoning skies | R |
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Sophocles when his reverent actors rise | R |
To play the king with bleeding eyes | R |
No longer shows us on the stage advance | S |
God s purpose in the terrible fatality of chance | S |
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No woman living when the girl and swan | T |
Embrace in verses feels upon | T |
Her breast the awful thunder of that breast | U |
Where God made beast is by the blood confessed | U |
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Empty as conch shell by the waters cast | V |
The metaphor still sounds but cannot tell | W |
And we like parasite crabs put on the shell | W |
And drag it at the sea s edge up and down | X |
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This is the destiny we say we own | Y |
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But are we sure | Z |
The age that dies upon its metaphor | A2 |
Among these Roman heads these mediaeval towers | B2 |
Is ours | B2 |
Or ours the ending of that story | C2 |
The meanings in a man that quarry | C2 |
Images from blinded eyes | R |
And white birds and the turning skies | R |
To make a world of were not spent with these | D2 |
Abandoned presences | E2 |
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The journey of our history has not ceased | F2 |
Earth turns us still toward the rising east | F2 |
The metaphor still struggles in the stone | Y |
The allegory of the flesh and bone | Y |
Still stares into the summer grass | G2 |
That is its glass | G2 |
The ignorant blood | H2 |
Still knocks at silence to be understood | I2 |
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Poets deserted by the world before | A2 |
Turn round into the actual air | J2 |
Invent the age Invent the metaphor | A2 |
Archibald Macleish
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