Two Moods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDEEFFGGHHIIAA AAAJJKKLLMMNNKKOOAAA AAA| Ah blame him not because he's gay | A |
| That he should smile and jest and play | A |
| But shows how lightly he can bear | B |
| How well forget that load which where | B |
| Thought is is with it and howe'er | C |
| Dissembled or indeed forgot | D |
| Still is a load and ceases not | D |
| This aged earth that each new spring | E |
| Comes forth so young so ravishing | E |
| In summer robes for all to see | F |
| Of flower and leaf and bloomy tree | F |
| For all her scarlet gold and green | G |
| Fails not to keep within unseen | G |
| That inner purpose and that force | H |
| Which on the untiring orbit's course | H |
| Around the sun amidst the spheres | I |
| Still bears her thro' the eternal years | I |
| Ah blame the flowers and fruits of May | A |
| And then blame him because he's gay | A |
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| Ah blame him not for not being gay | A |
| Because an hundred times a day | A |
| He doth not currently repay | A |
| Sweet words with ready words as sweet | J |
| And for each smile a smile repeat | J |
| To mute submissiveness confined | K |
| Blame not if once or twice the mind | K |
| Its pent up indignation wreak | L |
| In scowling brow and flushing cheek | L |
| And smiles curled back as soon as born | M |
| To dire significance of scorn | M |
| Nor blame if once and once again | N |
| He wring the hearts of milder men | N |
| If slights the worse if undesigned | K |
| Should seem unbrotherly unkind | K |
| For though tree wave and blossom blow | O |
| Above earth hides a fire below | O |
| Her seas the starry laws obey | A |
| And she from her own ordered way | A |
| Swerves not because it dims the day | A |
| Or changes verdure to decay | A |
| Ah blame the great world on its way | A |
| And then blame him for not being gay | A |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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