Selene Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCD CEFEGGGGGGHGHH IAAIHHG ACCG CJKLCGMGJJGGG NICCC CCOPNOM NICGC CJCQ COCM NICOC| My beloved is it nothing | A |
| Though we meet not neither can | B |
| That I see thee and thou me | C |
| That we see and see we see | C |
| When I see I also feel thee | C |
| Is it nothing my beloved | D |
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| Thy luminous clear beauty | C |
| Brightens on me in my night | E |
| I withdraw into my darkness | F |
| To allure thee into light | E |
| About me and upon me I feel them pass and stay | G |
| About me deep into me every lucid tender ray | G |
| And thou thou also feelest | G |
| When thou stealest | G |
| Shamefaced and half afraid | G |
| To the chamber of thy shade | G |
| Thou in thy turn | H |
| Thou too feelest | G |
| Something follow something yearn | H |
| A full orb blaze and burn | H |
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| My full orb upon thine | I |
| As thine erst gently smiling | A |
| Softly wooing sweetly wiling | A |
| Gleamed on mine | I |
| So mine on thine in turn | H |
| When thou feelest blaze and burn | H |
| Is it nothing my beloved | G |
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| My beloved is it nothing | A |
| When I see thee and thou me | C |
| When we each other see | C |
| Is it nothing my beloved | G |
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| Closer closer come unto me | C |
| Shall I see thee and no more | J |
| I can see thee is that all | K |
| Let me also | L |
| Let me feel thee | C |
| Closer closer my beloved | G |
| Come unto me come to me come | M |
| O cruel cruel lot still thou rollest stayest not | G |
| Lookest onward look'st before | J |
| Yet I follow evermore | J |
| Oh cold and cruel fate thou rollest on thy way | G |
| Scarcely lookest will not stay | G |
| From thine alien way | G |
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| The inevitable motion | N |
| Bears me forth upon the line | I |
| Whose course I cannot see | C |
| I must move as it conveys me | C |
| Evermore It so must be | C |
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| O cold one and I round thee | C |
| Revolve round only thee | C |
| Straining ever to be nearer | O |
| While thou evadest still | P |
| Repellest still O cold one | N |
| Nay but closer closer closer | O |
| My beloved come come come | M |
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| The inevitable motion | N |
| Carries both upon its line | I |
| Also you as well as me | C |
| What is best and what is strongest | G |
| We obey It so must be | C |
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| Cruel cruel didst thou only | C |
| Feel as I feel evermore | J |
| A force though in not of me | C |
| Drawing inward in in in | Q |
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| Yea thou shalt though ere all endeth | C |
| Thou shalt feel me closer closer | O |
| My beloved close close to thee | C |
| Come to thee come come come | M |
| - | |
| The inevitable motion | N |
| Bears us both upon its line | I |
| Together you as me | C |
| Together and asunder | O |
| Evermore It so must be | C |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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