Selene Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCD CEFEGGGGGGHGHH IAAIHHG ACCG CJKLCGMGJJGGG NICCC CCOPNOM NICGC CJCQ COCM NICOCMy 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 |
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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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