Natura Naturans Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJIKLDL MNONPQRQ STCTNSRR UVWVBXYX ZA2B2A2DCRC C2RD2RE2TRT F2G2H2G2DRI2R RJ2RJ2RK2RK2 RL2RL2RRM2R N2ZRZO2P2CP2| Beside me in the car she sat | A |
| She spake not no nor looked to me | B |
| From her to me from me to her | C |
| What passed so subtly stealthily | D |
| As rose to rose that by it blows | E |
| Its interchanged aroma flings | F |
| Or wake to sound of one sweet note | G |
| The virtues of disparted strings | F |
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| Beside me nought but this but this | H |
| That influent as within me dwelt | I |
| Her life mine too within her breast | J |
| Her brain her every limb she felt | I |
| We sat while o'er and in us more | K |
| And more a power unknown prevailed | L |
| Inhaling and inhaled and still | D |
| 'Twas one inhaling or inhaled | L |
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| Beside me nought but this and passed | M |
| I passed and know not to this day | N |
| If gold or jet her girlish hair | O |
| If black or brown or lucid grey | N |
| Her eye's young glance the fickle chance | P |
| That joined us yet may join again | Q |
| But I no face again could greet | R |
| As her's whose life was in me then | Q |
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| As unsuspecting mere a maid | S |
| As fresh in maidhood's bloomiest bloom | T |
| In casual second class did e'er | C |
| By casual youth her seat assume | T |
| Or vestal say of saintliest clay | N |
| For once by balmiest airs betrayed | S |
| Unto emotions too too sweet | R |
| To be unlingeringly gainsaid | R |
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| Unowning then confusing soon | U |
| With dreamier dreams that o'er the glass | V |
| Of shyly ripening woman sense | W |
| Reflected scarce reflected pass | V |
| A wife may be a mother she | B |
| In Hymen's shrine recals not now | X |
| She first in hour ah not profane | Y |
| With me to Hymen learnt to bow | X |
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| Ah no Yet owned we fused in one | Z |
| The Power which e'en in stones and earths | A2 |
| By blind elections felt in forms | B2 |
| Organic breeds to myriad births | A2 |
| By lichen small on granite wall | D |
| Approved its faintest feeblest stir | C |
| Slow spreading strengthening long at last | R |
| Vibrated full in me and her | C |
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| In me and her sensation strange | C2 |
| The lily grew to pendent head | R |
| To vernal airs the mossy bank | D2 |
| Its sheeny primrose spangles spread | R |
| In roof o'er roof of shade sun proof | E2 |
| Did cedar strong itself outclimb | T |
| And altitude of aloe proud | R |
| Aspire in floreal crown sublime | T |
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| Flashed flickering forth fantastic flies | F2 |
| Big bees their burly bodies swung | G2 |
| Rooks roused with civic din the elms | H2 |
| And lark its wild reveillez rung | G2 |
| In Libyan dell the light gazelle | D |
| The leopard lithe in Indian glade | R |
| And dolphin brightening tropic seas | I2 |
| In us were living leapt and played | R |
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| Their shells did slow crustacea build | R |
| Their gilded skins did snakes renew | J2 |
| While mightier spines for loftier kind | R |
| Their types in amplest limbs outgrew | J2 |
| Yea close comprest in human breast | R |
| What moss and tree and livelier thing | K2 |
| What Earth Sun Star of force possest | R |
| Lay budding burgeoning forth for Spring | K2 |
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| Such sweet preluding sense of old | R |
| Led on in Eden's sinless place | L2 |
| The hour when bodies human first | R |
| Combined the primal prime embrace | L2 |
| Such genial heat the blissful seat | R |
| In man and woman owned unblamed | R |
| When naked both its garden paths | M2 |
| They walked unconscious unashamed | R |
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| Ere clouded yet in mistiest dawn | N2 |
| Above the horizon dusk and dun | Z |
| One mountain crest with light had tipped | R |
| That Orb that is the Spirit's Sun | Z |
| Ere dreamed young flowers in vernal showers | O2 |
| Of fruit to rise the flower above | P2 |
| Or ever yet to young Desire | C |
| Was told the mystic name of Love | P2 |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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