The Unloved Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKKK EELLMMNNKKKKOOPPKKQQ RRK KSSTT| These are the women whom no man has loved | A |
| Year after year day after day has moved | B |
| These hearts with many longings and with tears | C |
| And with content they have received the years | D |
| With empty hands expecting no good thing | E |
| Life has passed by their doors not entering | E |
| In solitude and without vain desire | F |
| They have warmed themselves beside a lonely fire | F |
| And without scorn beheld as in a glass | G |
| The blown and painted leaves of Beauty pass | G |
| Their souls have been made fragrant with the spice | H |
| Of costly virtues lit for sacrifice | H |
| They have accepted life the unpaid debt | I |
| And looked for no vain day of reckoning Yet | I |
| They too in certain windless summer hours | J |
| Have felt the stir of dreams and dreamed the powers | J |
| And the exemptions and the miracles | K |
| And the cruelty of Beauty Citadels | K |
| Of many walled and deeply moated hearts | K |
| Have suddenly surrendered to the arts | K |
| Of so compelling magic entering | E |
| They have esteemed it but a little thing | E |
| To have won so great a conquest and with haste | L |
| They have cast down and utterly laid waste | L |
| Tower upon tower and sapped their roots with flame | M |
| And passed on that eternity of shame | M |
| Which is the way of Beauty on the earth | N |
| And they have shaken laughter from its mirth | N |
| To be a sound of trumpets and of horns | K |
| Crying the battle cry of those red morns | K |
| Against a sky of triumph On some nights | K |
| Of delicate Springtide when the hesitant lights | K |
| Begin to fade and glimmer and grow warm | O |
| And all the softening air is quick with storm | O |
| And the ardours of the young year entering in | P |
| Flush the grey earth with buds when trees begin | P |
| To feel a trouble mounting from their roots | K |
| And all their green life blossoming into shoots | K |
| They too in some obscure unblossoming strife | Q |
| Have felt the stirring of the sap of life | Q |
| And they have wept with bowed heads in the street | R |
| They hear the twittering of little feet | R |
| The rocking of the cradles in their hearts | K |
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| This is a mood and as a mood departs | K |
| With the dried tears and they resume the tale | S |
| Of the dropt stitches these must never fail | S |
| For a dream's sake nor for a memory | T |
| The telling of a patient rosary | T |
Arthur Symons
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