Olympus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKKLM NNOPHHHHQQRSTTUUIVFF WWXXYYZZA2B2C2C2D2E2 F2F2Through female subtlety intense | A |
Or the good luck of innocence | B |
Or both my Wife with whom I plan | C |
To pass calm evenings when I can | C |
After the chattering girls and boys | D |
Are gone or the less grateful noise | D |
Is over of grown tongues that chime | E |
Untruly once upon a time | E |
Prevail'd with me to change my mind | F |
Of reading out how Rosalind | G |
In Arden jested and to go | H |
Where people whom I ought to know | H |
She said would meet that night And I | I |
Who inly murmur'd I will try | I |
Some dish more sharply spiced than this | J |
Milk soup men call domestic bliss | J |
Took as she laughing bade me take | K |
Our eldest boy's brown wide awake | K |
And straw box of cigars and went | L |
Where like a careless parliament | M |
Of gods olympic six or eight | N |
Authors and else reputed great | N |
Were met in council jocular | O |
On many things pursuing far | P |
Truth only for the chase's glow | H |
Quick as they caught her letting go | H |
Or when at fault the view halloo | H |
Playing about the missing clue | H |
And coarse jests came But gods are coarse | Q |
Thought I yet not without remorse | Q |
While memory of the gentle words | R |
Wife Mother Sister flash'd like swords | S |
And so after two hours of wit | T |
That burnt a hole where'er it hit | T |
I said I would not stay to sup | U |
Because my Wife was sitting up | U |
And walk'd home with a sense that I | I |
Was no match for that company | V |
Smelling of smoke which always kind | F |
Amelia said she did not mind | F |
I sipp'd her tea saw Baby scold | W |
And finger at the muslin fold | W |
Through which he push'd his nose at last | X |
And choked and chuckled feeding fast | X |
And he asleep and sent upstairs | Y |
She rang the servants in to prayers | Y |
And after heard what men of fame | Z |
Had urged 'gainst this and that For shame | Z |
She said but argument show'd not | A2 |
If I had answer'd thus I thought | B2 |
'Twould not have pass'd for very wise | C2 |
But I have not her voice and eyes | C2 |
Howe'er it be I'm glad of home | D2 |
Yea very glad at heart to come | E2 |
And lay a happy head to rest | F2 |
On her unreasonable breast | F2 |
Coventry Patmore
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