Olympus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKKLM NNOPHHHHQQRSTTUUIVFF WWXXYYZZA2B2C2C2D2E2 F2F2

Through female subtlety intenseA
Or the good luck of innocenceB
Or both my Wife with whom I planC
To pass calm evenings when I canC
After the chattering girls and boysD
Are gone or the less grateful noiseD
Is over of grown tongues that chimeE
Untruly once upon a timeE
Prevail'd with me to change my mindF
Of reading out how RosalindG
In Arden jested and to goH
Where people whom I ought to knowH
She said would meet that night And II
Who inly murmur'd I will tryI
Some dish more sharply spiced than thisJ
Milk soup men call domestic blissJ
Took as she laughing bade me takeK
Our eldest boy's brown wide awakeK
And straw box of cigars and wentL
Where like a careless parliamentM
Of gods olympic six or eightN
Authors and else reputed greatN
Were met in council jocularO
On many things pursuing farP
Truth only for the chase's glowH
Quick as they caught her letting goH
Or when at fault the view hallooH
Playing about the missing clueH
And coarse jests came But gods are coarseQ
Thought I yet not without remorseQ
While memory of the gentle wordsR
Wife Mother Sister flash'd like swordsS
And so after two hours of witT
That burnt a hole where'er it hitT
I said I would not stay to supU
Because my Wife was sitting upU
And walk'd home with a sense that II
Was no match for that companyV
Smelling of smoke which always kindF
Amelia said she did not mindF
I sipp'd her tea saw Baby scoldW
And finger at the muslin foldW
Through which he push'd his nose at lastX
And choked and chuckled feeding fastX
And he asleep and sent upstairsY
She rang the servants in to prayersY
And after heard what men of fameZ
Had urged 'gainst this and that For shameZ
She said but argument show'd notA2
If I had answer'd thus I thoughtB2
'Twould not have pass'd for very wiseC2
But I have not her voice and eyesC2
Howe'er it be I'm glad of homeD2
Yea very glad at heart to comeE2
And lay a happy head to restF2
On her unreasonable breastF2

Coventry Patmore



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