Love And Reason Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDCEE FFFGGGHHHGGG IIIJJKKJKLLMMMNNDDGG DGGG OOPGGNNMMQRQGGGROOOG GGEER GGNNNGMMGGGGONMMOOM| When panting sighs the bosom fill | A |
| And hands by chance united thrill | A |
| At once with one delicious pain | B |
| The pulses and the nerves of twain | B |
| When eyes that erst could meet with ease | C |
| Do seek yet seeking shyly shun | D |
| Extatic conscious unison | D |
| The sure beginnings say be these | C |
| Prelusive to the strain of love | E |
| Which angels sing in heaven above | E |
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| Or is it but the vulgar tune | F |
| Which all that breathe beneath the moon | F |
| So accurately learn so soon | F |
| With variations duly blent | G |
| Yet that same song to all intent | G |
| Set for the finer instrument | G |
| It is and it would sound the same | H |
| In beasts were not the bestial frame | H |
| Less subtly organised to blame | H |
| And but that soul and spirit add | G |
| To pleasures even base and bad | G |
| A zest the soulless never had | G |
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| It may be well indeed I deem | I |
| But what if sympathy it seem | I |
| And admiration and esteem | I |
| Commingling therewithal do make | J |
| The passion prized for Reason's sake | J |
| Yet when my heart would fain rejoice | K |
| A small expostulating voice | K |
| Falls in Of this thou wilt not take | J |
| Thy one irrevocable choice | K |
| In accent tremulous and thin | L |
| I hear high Prudence deep within | L |
| Pleading the bitter bitter sting | M |
| Should slow maturing seasons bring | M |
| Too late the veritable thing | M |
| For if the Poet's tale of bliss | N |
| A love wherewith commeasured this | N |
| Is weak and beggarly and none | D |
| Exist a treasure to be won | D |
| And if the vision though it stay | G |
| Be yet for an appointed day | G |
| This choice if made this deed if done | D |
| The memory of this present past | G |
| With vague foreboding might o'ercast | G |
| The heart or madden it at last | G |
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| Let Reason first her office ply | O |
| Esteem and admiration high | O |
| And mental moral sympathy | P |
| Exist they first nor be they brought | G |
| By self deceiving afterthought | G |
| What if an halo interfuse | N |
| With these again its opal hues | N |
| That all o'erspreading and o'erlying | M |
| Transmuting mingling glorifying | M |
| About the beauteous various whole | Q |
| With beaming smile do dance and quiver | R |
| Yet is that halo of the soul | Q |
| Or is it as may sure be said | G |
| Phosphoric exhalation bred | G |
| Of vapour steaming from the bed | G |
| Of Fancy's brook or Passion's river | R |
| So when as will be by and by | O |
| The stream is waterless and dry | O |
| This halo and its hues will die | O |
| And though the soul contented rest | G |
| With those substantial blessings blest | G |
| Will not a longing half confest | G |
| Betray that this is not the love | E |
| The gift for which all gifts above | E |
| Him praise we Who is Love the Giver | R |
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| I cannot say the things are good | G |
| Bread is it if not angels' food | G |
| But Love Alas I cannot say | N |
| A glory on the vision lay | N |
| A light of more than mortal day | N |
| About it played upon it rested | G |
| It did not faltering and weak | M |
| Beg Reason on its side to speak | M |
| Itself was Reason or if not | G |
| Such substitute as is I wot | G |
| Of seraph kind the loftier lot | G |
| Itself was of itself attested | G |
| To processes that hard and dry | O |
| Elaborate truth from fallacy | N |
| With modes intuitive succeeding | M |
| Including those and superseding | M |
| Reason sublimed and Love most high | O |
| It was a life that cannot die | O |
| A dream of glory most exceeding | M |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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