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An Old-world Thicket Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Una selva oscura Dante	A
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Awake or sleeping for I know not which	B
I was or was not mazed within a wood	C
Where every mother bird brought up her brood	D
Safe in some leafy niche	B
Of oak or ash of cypress or of beech	E
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Of silvery aspen trembling delicately	F
Of plane or warmer tinted sycamore	G
Of elm that dies in secret from the core	G
Of ivy weak and free	F
Of pines of all green lofty things that be	F
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Such birds they seemed as challenged each desire	H
Like spots of azure heaven upon the wing	I
Like downy emeralds that alight and sing	I
Like actual coals on fire	H
Like anything they seemed and everything	I
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Such mirth they made such warblings and such chat	J
With tongue of music in a well tuned beak	K
They seemed to speak more wisdom than we speak	K
To make our music flat	J
And all our subtlest reasonings wild or weak	K
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Their meat was nought but flowers like butterflies	L
With berries coral colored or like gold	M
Their drink was only dew which blossoms hold	M
Deep where the honey lies	L
Their wings and tails were lit by sparkling eyes	L
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The shade wherein they revelled was a shade	N
That danced and twinkled to the unseen sun	O
Branches and leaves cast shadows one by one	O
And all their shadows swayed	N
In breaths of air that rustled and that played	N
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A sound of waters neither rose nor sank	P
And spread a sense of freshness through the air	Q
It seemed not here or there but everywhere	Q
As if the whole earth drank	P
Root fathom deep and strawberry on its bank	P
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But I who saw such things as I have said	R
Was overdone with utter weariness	S
And walked in care as one whom fears oppress	T
Because above his head	R
Death hangs or damage or the dearth of bread	R
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Each sore defeat of my defeated life	U
Faced and outfaced me in that bitter hour	H
And turned to yearning palsy all my power	H
And all my peace to strife	U
Self stabbing self with keen lack pity knife	U
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Sweetness of beauty moved me to despair	Q
Stung me to anger by its mere content	V
Made me all lonely on that way I went	V
Piled care upon my care	Q
Brimmed full my cup and stripped me empty and bare	Q
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For all that was but showed what all was not	W
But gave clear proof of what might never be	F
Making more destitute my poverty	F
And yet more blank my lot	W
And me much sadder by its jubilee	F
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Therefore I sat me down for wherefore walk	X
And closed mine eyes for wherefore see or hear	Y
Alas I had no shutter to mine ear	Y
And could not shun the talk	X
Of all rejoicing creatures far or near	Z
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Without my will I hearkened and I heard	A2
Asleep or waking for I know not which	B
Till note by note the music changed its pitch	B
Bird ceased to answer bird	A2
And every wind sighed softly if it stirred	A2
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The drip of widening waters seemed to weep	B2
All fountains sobbed and gurgled as they sprang	C2
Somewhere a cataract cried out in its leap	B2
Sheer down a headlong steep	B2
High over all cloud thunders gave a clang	C2
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Such universal sound of lamentation	O
I heard and felt fain not to feel or hear	Y
Nought else there seemed but anguish far and near	Z
Nought else but all creation	O
Moaning and groaning wrung by pain or fear	Z
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Shuddering in the misery of its doom	D2
My heart then rose a rebel against light	E2
Scouring all earth and heaven and depth and height	E2
Ingathering wrath and gloom	D2
Ingathering wrath to wrath and night to night	E2
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Ah me the bitterness of such revolt	F2
All impotent all hateful and all hate	G2
That kicks and breaks itself against the bolt	F2
Of an imprisoning fate	G2
And vainly shakes and cannot shake the gate	G2
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Agony to agony deep called to deep	B2
Out of the deep I called of my desire	H
My strength was weakness and my heart was fire	H
Mine eyes that would not weep	B2
Or sleep scaled height and depth and could not sleep	B2
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The eyes I mean of my rebellious soul	H2
For still my bodily eyes were closed and dark	I2
A random thing I seemed without a mark	I2
Racing without a goal	H2
Adrift upon life's sea without an ark	I2
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More leaden than the actual self of lead	R
Outer and inner darkness weighed on me	F
The tide of anger ebbed Then fierce and free	F
Surged full above my head	R
The moaning tide of helpless misery	F
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Why should I breathe whose breath was but a sigh	J2
Why should I live who drew such painful breath	K2
Oh weary work the unanswerable why	J2
Yet I why should I die	J2
Who had no hope in life no hope in death	K2
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Grasses and mosses and the fallen leaf	L2
Make peaceful bed for an indefinite term	M2
But underneath the grass there gnaws a worm	M2
Haply there gnaws a grief	L2
Both haply always not as now so brief	L2
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The pleasure I remember it is past	N2
The pain I feel is passing passing by	J2
Thus all the world is passing and thus I	J2
All things that cannot last	N2
Have grown familiar and are born to die	J2
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And being familiar have so long been borne	O
That habit trains us not to break but bend	O2
Mourning grows natural to us who mourn	O
In foresight of an end	O2
But that which ends not who shall brave or mend	O2
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Surely the ripe fruits tremble on their bough	P2
They cling and linger trembling till they drop	Q2
I trembling cling to dying life for how	P2
Face the perpetual Now	P2
Birthless and deathless void of start or stop	Q2
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Void of repentance void of hope and fear	Z
Of possibility alternative	R2
Of all that ever made us bear to live	S2
From night to morning here	Y
Of promise even which has no gift to give	R2
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The wood and every creature of the wood	C
Seemed mourning with me in an undertone	O
Soft scattered chirpings and a windy moan	O
Trees rustling where they stood	C
And shivered showed compassion for my mood	D
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Rage to despair and now despair had turned	T2
Back to self pity and mere weariness	S
With yearnings like a smouldering fire that burned	T2
And might grow more or less	T
And might die out or wax to white excess	T
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Without within me music seemed to be	F
Something not music yet most musical	U2
Silence and sound in heavenly harmony	F
At length a pattering fall	V2
Of feet a bell and bleatings broke through all	V2
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Then I looked up The wood lay in a glow	W2
From golden sunset and from ruddy sky	J2
The sun had stooped to earth though once so high	J2
Had stooped to earth in slow	W2
Warm dying loveliness brought near and low	W2
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Each water drop made answer to the light	E2
Lit up a spark and showed the sun his face	X2
Soft purple shadows paved the grassy space	X2
And crept from height to height	E2
From height to loftier height crept up apace	X2
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While opposite the sun a gazing moon	O
Put on his glory for her coronet	Y2
Kindling her luminous coldness to its noon	O
As his great splendor set	Y2
One only star made up her train as yet	Y2
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Each twig was tipped with gold each leaf was edged	Z2
And veined with gold from the gold flooded west	A3
Each mother bird and mate bird and unfledged	A3
Nestling and curious nest	A3
Displayed a gilded moss or beak or breast	A3
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And filing peacefully between the trees	B3
Having the moon behind them and the sun	O
Full in their meek mild faces walked at ease	B3
A homeward flock at peace	C3
With one another and with every one	O
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A patriarchal ram with tinkling bell	D3
Led all his kin sometimes one browsing sheep	B2
Hung back a moment or one lamb would leap	B2
And frolic in a dell	D3
Yet still they kept together journeying well	D3
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And bleating one or other many or few	E3
Journeying together toward the sunlit west	A3
Mild face by face and woolly breast by breast	A3
Patient sun brightened too	E3
Still journeying toward the sunset and their rest	A3