Nora On The Pavement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCA DBBED FGGBF HIIEH JKKDJ JDDEJ| As Nora on the pavement | A |
| Dances and she entrances the grey hour | B |
| Into the laughing circle of her power | B |
| The magic circle of her glances | C |
| As Nora dances on the midnight pavement | A |
| - | |
| Petulant and bewildered | D |
| Thronging desires and longing looks recur | B |
| And memorably re incarnate her | B |
| As I remember that old longing | E |
| A footlight fancy petulant and bewildered | D |
| - | |
| There where the ballet circles | F |
| See her but ah not free her from the race | G |
| Of glittering lines that link and interlace | G |
| This colour now now that may be her | B |
| In the bright web of those harmonious circles | F |
| - | |
| But what are these dance measures | H |
| Leaping and joyous keeping time alone | I |
| With Life's capricious rhythm and all her own | I |
| Life's rhythm and hers long sleeping | E |
| That wakes and knows not why in these dance measures | H |
| - | |
| It is the very Nora | J |
| Child and most blithe and wild as any elf | K |
| And innocently spendthrift of herself | K |
| And guileless and most unbeguiled | D |
| Herself at last leaps free the very Nora | J |
| - | |
| It is the soul of Nora | J |
| Living at last and giving forth to the night | D |
| Bird like the burden of its own delight | D |
| All its desire and all the joy of living | E |
| In that blithe madness of the soul of Nora | J |
Arthur Symons
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Nora On The Pavement poem by Arthur Symons
Best Poems of Arthur Symons