Natura Naturans Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJIKLDL MNONPQRQ STCTNSRR UVWVBXYX ZA2B2A2DCRC C2RD2RE2TRT F2G2H2G2DRI2R RJ2RJ2RK2RK2 RL2RL2RRM2R N2ZRZO2P2CP2Beside 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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