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The Unknown Eros. Book I. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	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