De Profundis Clemadi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIJKKLL MMNNOOPPQQRRSSTUVV| I did not know child child I did not know | A |
| Who now in lonely wayfare go | A |
| Who wander lonely of you O my child | B |
| And by myself exiled | B |
| I did not know but O white soul of youth | C |
| So passionate of truth | C |
| So amorous of duty and so strong | D |
| To suffer not to suffer wrong | D |
| Is there for me no pity who am weak | E |
| Spare me this silence speak | E |
| I did not know I wronged you I repent | F |
| But will you not relent | F |
| Must I still wander outlawed and go on | G |
| The old weary ways alone | H |
| As in the old intolerable days | I |
| Before I saw you face to face | J |
| The doubly darkened ways since you withdraw | K |
| Your light that was my law | K |
| I charge you by your soul pause ere you hurl | L |
| Sheer to destruction girl | L |
| A poor soul that had midway struggled out | M |
| Still midway clogged about | M |
| And for the love of you had turned his back | N |
| Upon the miry track | N |
| That had been as a grassy wood way dim | O |
| With violet beds to him | O |
| I wronged you but I loved you and to me | P |
| Your love was purity | P |
| I rose because you called me and I drew | Q |
| Nearer to God in you | Q |
| I fall and if you leave me I must fall | R |
| To that last depth of all | R |
| Where not the miracle of even your eyes | S |
| Can bid the dead arise | S |
| I charge you that you save not your own sense | T |
| Of lilied innocence | U |
| By setting at the roots of that fair stem | V |
| A murdered thing to nourish them | V |
Arthur Symons
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