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 satA
She spake not no nor looked to meB
From her to me from me to herC
What passed so subtly stealthilyD
As rose to rose that by it blowsE
Its interchanged aroma flingsF
Or wake to sound of one sweet noteG
The virtues of disparted stringsF
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Beside me nought but this but thisH
That influent as within me dweltI
Her life mine too within her breastJ
Her brain her every limb she feltI
We sat while o'er and in us moreK
And more a power unknown prevailedL
Inhaling and inhaled and stillD
'Twas one inhaling or inhaledL
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Beside me nought but this and passedM
I passed and know not to this dayN
If gold or jet her girlish hairO
If black or brown or lucid greyN
Her eye's young glance the fickle chanceP
That joined us yet may join againQ
But I no face again could greetR
As her's whose life was in me thenQ
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As unsuspecting mere a maidS
As fresh in maidhood's bloomiest bloomT
In casual second class did e'erC
By casual youth her seat assumeT
Or vestal say of saintliest clayN
For once by balmiest airs betrayedS
Unto emotions too too sweetR
To be unlingeringly gainsaidR
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Unowning then confusing soonU
With dreamier dreams that o'er the glassV
Of shyly ripening woman senseW
Reflected scarce reflected passV
A wife may be a mother sheB
In Hymen's shrine recals not nowX
She first in hour ah not profaneY
With me to Hymen learnt to bowX
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Ah no Yet owned we fused in oneZ
The Power which e'en in stones and earthsA2
By blind elections felt in formsB2
Organic breeds to myriad birthsA2
By lichen small on granite wallD
Approved its faintest feeblest stirC
Slow spreading strengthening long at lastR
Vibrated full in me and herC
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In me and her sensation strangeC2
The lily grew to pendent headR
To vernal airs the mossy bankD2
Its sheeny primrose spangles spreadR
In roof o'er roof of shade sun proofE2
Did cedar strong itself outclimbT
And altitude of aloe proudR
Aspire in floreal crown sublimeT
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Flashed flickering forth fantastic fliesF2
Big bees their burly bodies swungG2
Rooks roused with civic din the elmsH2
And lark its wild reveillez rungG2
In Libyan dell the light gazelleD
The leopard lithe in Indian gladeR
And dolphin brightening tropic seasI2
In us were living leapt and playedR
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Their shells did slow crustacea buildR
Their gilded skins did snakes renewJ2
While mightier spines for loftier kindR
Their types in amplest limbs outgrewJ2
Yea close comprest in human breastR
What moss and tree and livelier thingK2
What Earth Sun Star of force possestR
Lay budding burgeoning forth for SpringK2
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Such sweet preluding sense of oldR
Led on in Eden's sinless placeL2
The hour when bodies human firstR
Combined the primal prime embraceL2
Such genial heat the blissful seatR
In man and woman owned unblamedR
When naked both its garden pathsM2
They walked unconscious unashamedR
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Ere clouded yet in mistiest dawnN2
Above the horizon dusk and dunZ
One mountain crest with light had tippedR
That Orb that is the Spirit's SunZ
Ere dreamed young flowers in vernal showersO2
Of fruit to rise the flower aboveP2
Or ever yet to young DesireC
Was told the mystic name of LoveP2

Arthur Hugh Clough



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