The Unloved Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKKK EELLMMNNKKKKOOPPKKQQ RRK KSSTT

These are the women whom no man has lovedA
Year after year day after day has movedB
These hearts with many longings and with tearsC
And with content they have received the yearsD
With empty hands expecting no good thingE
Life has passed by their doors not enteringE
In solitude and without vain desireF
They have warmed themselves beside a lonely fireF
And without scorn beheld as in a glassG
The blown and painted leaves of Beauty passG
Their souls have been made fragrant with the spiceH
Of costly virtues lit for sacrificeH
They have accepted life the unpaid debtI
And looked for no vain day of reckoning YetI
They too in certain windless summer hoursJ
Have felt the stir of dreams and dreamed the powersJ
And the exemptions and the miraclesK
And the cruelty of Beauty CitadelsK
Of many walled and deeply moated heartsK
Have suddenly surrendered to the artsK
Of so compelling magic enteringE
They have esteemed it but a little thingE
To have won so great a conquest and with hasteL
They have cast down and utterly laid wasteL
Tower upon tower and sapped their roots with flameM
And passed on that eternity of shameM
Which is the way of Beauty on the earthN
And they have shaken laughter from its mirthN
To be a sound of trumpets and of hornsK
Crying the battle cry of those red mornsK
Against a sky of triumph On some nightsK
Of delicate Springtide when the hesitant lightsK
Begin to fade and glimmer and grow warmO
And all the softening air is quick with stormO
And the ardours of the young year entering inP
Flush the grey earth with buds when trees beginP
To feel a trouble mounting from their rootsK
And all their green life blossoming into shootsK
They too in some obscure unblossoming strifeQ
Have felt the stirring of the sap of lifeQ
And they have wept with bowed heads in the streetR
They hear the twittering of little feetR
The rocking of the cradles in their heartsK
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This is a mood and as a mood departsK
With the dried tears and they resume the taleS
Of the dropt stitches these must never failS
For a dream's sake nor for a memoryT
The telling of a patient rosaryT

Arthur Symons



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