The Unknown Eros. Book I. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDBBD ECEDAFGGDHHFIIJJKKLL MBMBBNNOOPP QQRAARDBSSTTUBVUV WDWA AX QYZQZA2B2YB2EC2C2ED2 HD2HE2E2HHBBE2E2E2E2 BF2F2E2G2H2H2I2HH AE HHHYYNHHJ2J2E2E2FK2F K2BL2BBL2NBM2EM2EN2E 2TTNNK2GGEEO2PO2PO2P 2FFE2E2Q2Q2BAR2TP2E2 AB Q2S2S2BBQ2AAT2BU2BU2 BB AE2 AV2W2E2E2AAX2X2AE2X2 BP2BP2BBABBAV2PBBY2B PBY2BP2BBP2NN AABBE2E2BBBBBBZ2Z2G2 G2BBZ2A3A3AP2B3BI | A |
Saint Valentine s Day | B |
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Well dost thou Love thy solemn Feast to hold | C |
In vestal February | D |
Not rather choosing out some rosy day | B |
From the rich coronet of the coming May | B |
When all things meet to marry | D |
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O quick pr vernal Power | E |
That signall'st punctual through the sleepy mould | C |
The Snowdrop's time to flower | E |
Fair as the rash oath of virginity | D |
Which is first love's first cry | A |
O Baby Spring | F |
That flutter'st sudden 'neath the breast of Earth | G |
A month before the birth | G |
Whence is the peaceful poignancy | D |
The joy contrite | H |
Sadder than sorrow sweeter than delight | H |
That burthens now the breath of everything | F |
Though each one sighs as if to each alone | I |
The cherish'd pang were known | I |
At dusk of dawn on his dark spray apart | J |
With it the Blackbird breaks the young Day's heart | J |
In evening's hush | K |
About it talks the heavenly minded Thrush | K |
The hill with like remorse | L |
Smiles to the Sun's smile in his westering course | L |
The fisher's drooping skiff | M |
In yonder sheltering bay | B |
The choughs that call about the shining cliff | M |
The children noisy in the setting ray | B |
Own the sweet season each thing as it may | B |
Thoughts of strange kindness and forgotten peace | N |
In me increase | N |
And tears arise | O |
Within my happy happy Mistress' eyes | O |
And lo her lips averted from my kiss | P |
Ask from Love's bounty ah much more than bliss | P |
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Is't the sequester'd and exceeding sweet | Q |
Of dear Desire electing his defeat | Q |
Is't the waked Earth now to yon purpling cope | R |
Uttering first love's first cry | A |
Vainly renouncing with a Seraph's sigh | A |
Love's natural hope | R |
Fair meaning Earth foredoom'd to perjury | D |
Behold all amorous May | B |
With roses heap'd upon her laughing brows | S |
Avoids thee of thy vows | S |
Were it for thee with her warm bosom near | T |
To abide the sharpness of the Seraph's sphere | T |
Forget thy foolish words | U |
Go to her summons gay | B |
Thy heart with dead wing'd Innocencies fill'd | V |
Ev'n as a nest with birds | U |
After the old ones by the hawk are kill'd | V |
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Well dost thou Love to celebrate | W |
The noon of thy soft ecstasy | D |
Or e'er it be too late | W |
Or e'er the Snowdrop die | A |
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II | A |
Wind And Wave | X |
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The wedded light and heat | Q |
Winnowing the witless space | Y |
Without a let | Z |
What are they till they beat | Q |
Against the sleepy sod and there beget | Z |
Perchance the violet | A2 |
Is the One found | B2 |
Amongst a wilderness of as happy grace | Y |
To make Heaven's bound | B2 |
So that in Her | E |
All which it hath of sensitively good | C2 |
Is sought and understood | C2 |
After the narrow mode the mighty Heavens prefer | E |
She as a little breeze | D2 |
Following still Night | H |
Ripples the spirit's cold deep seas | D2 |
Into delight | H |
But in a while | E2 |
The immeasurable smile | E2 |
Is broke by fresher airs to flashes blent | H |
With darkling discontent | H |
And all the subtle zephyr hurries gay | B |
And all the heaving ocean heaves one way | B |
T'ward the void sky line and an unguess'd weal | E2 |
Until the vanward billows feel | E2 |
The agitating shallows and divine the goal | E2 |
And to foam roll | E2 |
And spread and stray | B |
And traverse wildly like delighted hands | F2 |
The fair and fleckless sands | F2 |
And so the whole | E2 |
Unfathomable and immense | G2 |
Triumphing tide comes at the last to reach | H2 |
And burst in wind kiss'd splendours on the deaf'ning beach | H2 |
Where forms of children in first innocence | I2 |
Laugh and fling pebbles on the rainbow'd crest | H |
Of its untired unrest | H |
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III | A |
Winter | E |
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I singularly moved | H |
To love the lovely that are not beloved | H |
Of all the Seasons most | H |
Love Winter and to trace | Y |
The sense of the Trophonian pallor on her face | Y |
It is not death but plenitude of peace | N |
And the dim cloud that does the world enfold | H |
Hath less the characters of dark and cold | H |
Than warmth and light asleep | J2 |
And correspondent breathing seems to keep | J2 |
With the infant harvest breathing soft below | E2 |
Its eider coverlet of snow | E2 |
Nor is in field or garden anything | F |
But duly look'd into contains serene | K2 |
The substance of things hoped for in the Spring | F |
And evidence of Summer not yet seen | K2 |
On every chance mild day | B |
That visits the moist shaw | L2 |
The honeysuckle 'sdaining to be crost | B |
In urgence of sweet life by sleet or frost | B |
'Voids the time's law | L2 |
With still increase | N |
Of leaflet new and little wandering spray | B |
Often in sheltering brakes | M2 |
As one from rest disturb'd in the first hour | E |
Primrose or violet bewilder'd wakes | M2 |
And deems 'tis time to flower | E |
Though not a whisper of her voice he hear | N2 |
The buried bulb does know | E2 |
The signals of the year | T |
And hails far Summer with his lifted spear | T |
The gorse field dark by sudden gold caprice | N |
Turns here and there into a Jason's fleece | N |
Lilies that soon in Autumn slipp'd their gowns of green | K2 |
And vanish'd into earth | G |
And came again ere Autumn died to birth | G |
Stand full array'd amidst the wavering shower | E |
And perfect for the Summer less the flower | E |
In nook of pale or crevice of crude bark | O2 |
Thou canst not miss | P |
If close thou spy to mark | O2 |
The ghostly chrysalis | P |
That if thou touch it stirs in its dream dark | O2 |
And the flush'd Robin in the evenings hoar | P2 |
Does of Love's Day as if he saw it sing | F |
But sweeter yet than dream or song of Summer or Spring | F |
Are Winter's sometime smiles that seem to well | E2 |
From infancy ineffable | E2 |
Her wandering languorous gaze | Q2 |
So unfamiliar so without amaze | Q2 |
On the elemental chill adversity | B |
The uncomprehended rudeness and her sigh | A |
And solemn gathering tear | R2 |
And look of exile from some great repose the sphere | T |
Of ether moved by ether only or | P2 |
By something still more tranquil | E2 |
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IV | A |
Beta | B |
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Of infinite Heaven the rays | Q2 |
Piercing some eyelet in our cavern black | S2 |
Ended their viewless track | S2 |
On thee to smite | B |
Solely as on a diamond stalactite | B |
And in mid darkness lit a rainbow's blaze | Q2 |
Wherein the absolute Reason Power and Love | A |
That erst could move | A |
Mainly in me but toil and weariness | T2 |
Renounced their deadening might | B |
Renounced their undistinguishable stress | U2 |
Of withering white | B |
And did with gladdest hues my spirit caress | U2 |
Nothing of Heaven in thee showing infinite | B |
Save the delight | B |
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V | A |
The Day After To Morrow | E2 |
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Perchance she droops within the hollow gulf | A |
Which the great wave of coming pleasure draws | V2 |
Not guessing the glad cause | W2 |
Ye Clouds that on your endless journey go | E2 |
Ye Winds that westward flow | E2 |
Thou heaving Sea | A |
That heav'st 'twixt her and me | A |
Tell her I come | X2 |
Then only sigh your pleasure and be dumb | X2 |
For the sweet secret of our either self | A |
We know | E2 |
Tell her I come | X2 |
And let her heart be still'd | B |
One day's controlled hope and then one more | P2 |
And on the third our lives shall be fulfill'd | B |
Yet all has been before | P2 |
Palm placed in palm twin smiles and words astray | B |
What other should we say | B |
But shall I not with ne'er a sign perceive | A |
Whilst her sweet hands I hold | B |
The myriad threads and meshes manifold | B |
Which Love shall round her weave | A |
The pulse in that vein making alien pause | V2 |
And varying beats from this | P |
Down each long finger felt a differing strand | B |
Of silvery welcome bland | B |
And in her breezy palm | Y2 |
And silken wrist | B |
Beneath the touch of my like numerous bliss | P |
Complexly kiss'd | B |
A diverse and distinguishable calm | Y2 |
What should we say | B |
It all has been before | P2 |
And yet our lives shall now be first fulfill'd | B |
And into their summ'd sweetness fall distill'd | B |
One sweet drop more | P2 |
One sweet drop more in absolute increase | N |
Of unrelapsing peace | N |
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O heaving Sea | A |
That heav'st as if for bliss of her and me | A |
And separatest not dear heart from heart | B |
Though each 'gainst other beats too far apart | B |
For yet awhile | E2 |
Let it not seem that I behold her smile | E2 |
O weary Love O folded to her breast | B |
Love in each moment years and years of rest | B |
Be calm as being not | B |
Ye oceans of intolerable delight | B |
The blazing photosphere of central Night | B |
Be ye forgot | B |
Terror thou swarthy Groom of Bride bliss coy | Z2 |
Let me not see thee toy | Z2 |
O Death too tardy with thy hope intense | G2 |
Of kisses close beyond conceit of sense | G2 |
O Life too liberal while to take her hand | B |
Is more of hope than heart can understand | B |
Perturb my golden patience not with joy | Z2 |
Nor through a wish profane | A3 |
The peace that should pertain | A3 |
To him who does by her attraction move | A |
Has all not been before | P2 |
One day's controlled hope and one again | B3 |
And then the third and ye shall have the | B |
Coventry Patmore
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