Nine Stages Towards Knowing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC CDE F GHI JKK HLC H MNO PQ R A STU VWX YZA2 B2 C2D2D DD2C2 E2 F2G2 H2I2H2 H J2 H2HDD K2H2K2 H2 H2H2C L2M2Q N2O2P2 Q2 H2N2 R2H S2T2 U2V2| Why do we lie | A |
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| 'Why do we lie ' she questioned her warm eyes | B |
| on the grey Autumn wind and its coursing | C |
| 'all afternoon wasted in bed like this ' | - |
| 'Because we cannot lie all night together ' | - |
| 'Yes ' she said satisfied at my reasoning | C |
| but going on to search her cruel mind | D |
| for better excuses to leave my narrow bed | E |
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| Too many flesh suppers | F |
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| Abstracted in art | G |
| in architecture | H |
| in scholars' detail | I |
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| absorbed by music | J |
| by minutiae | K |
| by sad trivia | K |
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| all to efface her | H |
| whom I can forget | L |
| no more than breathing | C |
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| Theatregoer | H |
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| Somewhere some nights she sees | M |
| curtains rise on those rites | N |
| we also knew and felt | O |
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| I sit here desolate | P |
| in spite of company | Q |
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| Love is between people | R |
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| And should she die | A |
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| And should she die tonight | S |
| with this three years' difference | T |
| as well between us now | U |
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| Or no be maimed perhaps | V |
| and bearing pain to live | W |
| on damages for life | X |
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| In any case I wish | Y |
| her no good whom I loved | Z |
| as Brunel loved iron | A2 |
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| All this Sunday long | B2 |
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| All this Sunday long it has snowed | C2 |
| and I weighted with the old grief | D2 |
| struggling to unseat her from my mind | D |
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| Yet winnowing our past I cannot find | D |
| a snow gilded scene however brief | D2 |
| thus do I wilfully increase my load | C2 |
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| Spatial Definition | E2 |
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| Razed the room in which | F2 |
| we made so much love | G2 |
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| I try to re place | H2 |
| it in space against | I2 |
| the windracked planetrees | H2 |
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| my eyes quarter air | H |
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| Able at last | J2 |
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| 'Able at last ' she writes | H2 |
| 'to see things as they were | H |
| I wonder we were so blind | D |
| to think our trust could bind | D |
| instead of just defer ' | - |
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| I shudder at her fall | K2 |
| for that was from the heights | H2 |
| not how it was at all | K2 |
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| Arrived at the place | H2 |
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| Arrived at the place | H2 |
| to which I always | H2 |
| said I was going | C |
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| comfortless for lack | L2 |
| of her who chose not | M2 |
| to travel with me | Q |
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| too aware of my way | N2 |
| to wherever next | O2 |
| is also alone | P2 |
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| Knowledge | Q2 |
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| Knowledge of her was | H2 |
| earned like miners' pay | N2 |
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| afterwards I sought | R2 |
| friends' knowledge of her | H |
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| now I need to know | S2 |
| nothing of this girl | T2 |
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| she whom once I knew | U2 |
| as my tongue my mouth | V2 |
Ben Jonson
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