The Unknown Eros Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCCDDCEECCAADDCCCCC CCCFGC DC HDIDHDCCC DCCCCDJJDDDDDDK LMMNDCCCCCOOCCIICPPD C QPCCCRCRQQP SSAADDCDCDGGOOCCNN| Proem | A |
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| Many speak wisely some inerrably | B |
| Witness the beast who talk'd that should have bray'd | C |
| And Caiaphas that said | C |
| Expedient 'twas for all that One should die | C |
| But what avails | D |
| When Love's right accent from their wisdom fails | D |
| And the Truth criers know not what they cry | C |
| Say wherefore thou | E |
| As under bondage of some bitter vow | E |
| Warblest no word | C |
| When all the rest are shouting to be heard | C |
| Why leave the fervid running just when Fame | A |
| 'Gan whispering of thy name | A |
| Amongst the hard pleased Judges of the Course | D |
| Parch'd is thy crystal flowing source | D |
| Pierce then with thought's steel probe the trodden ground | C |
| Till passion's buried floods be found | C |
| Intend thine eye | C |
| Into the dim and undiscover'd sky | C |
| Whose lustres are the pulsings of the heart | C |
| And promptly as thy trade is watch to chart | C |
| The lonely suns the mystic hazes and throng'd sparkles bright | C |
| That named and number'd right | C |
| In sweet transpicuous words shall glow alway | F |
| With Love's three stranded ray | G |
| Red wrath compassion golden lazuline delight | C |
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| Thus in reproof of my despondency | D |
| My Mentor and thus I | C |
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| O season strange for song | H |
| And yet some timely power persuades my lips | D |
| Is't England's parting soul that nerves my tongue | I |
| As other Kingdoms nearing their eclipse | D |
| Have in their latest bards uplifted strong | H |
| The voice that was their voice in earlier days | D |
| Is it her sudden loud and piercing cry | C |
| The note which those that seem too weak to sigh | C |
| Will sometimes utter just before they die | C |
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| Lo weary of the greatness of her ways | D |
| There lies my Land with hasty pulse and hard | C |
| Her ancient beauty marr'd | C |
| And in her cold and aimless roving sight | C |
| Horror of light | C |
| Sole vigour left in her last lethargy | D |
| Save when at bidding of some dreadful breath | J |
| The rising death | J |
| Rolls up with force | D |
| And then the furiously gibbering corse | D |
| Shakes panglessly convuls'd and sightless stares | D |
| Whilst one Physician pours in rousing wines | D |
| One anodynes | D |
| And one declares | D |
| That nothing ails it but the pains of growth | K |
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| My last look loth | L |
| Is taken and I turn with the relief | M |
| Of knowing that my life long hope and grief | M |
| Are surely vain | N |
| To that unshapen time to come when She | D |
| A dim heroic Nation long since dead | C |
| The foulness of her agony forgot | C |
| Shall all benignly shed | C |
| Through ages vast | C |
| The ghostly grace of her transfigured past | C |
| Over the present harass'd and forlorn | O |
| Of nations yet unborn | O |
| And this shall be the lot | C |
| Of those who in the bird voice and the blast | C |
| Of her omniloquent tongue | I |
| Have truly sung | I |
| Or greatly said | C |
| To shew as one | P |
| With those who have best done | P |
| And be as rays | D |
| Thro' the still altering world around her changeless head | C |
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| Therefore no 'plaint be mine | Q |
| Of listeners none | P |
| No hope of render'd use or proud reward | C |
| In hasty times and hard | C |
| But chants as of a lonely thrush's throat | C |
| At latest eve | R |
| That does in each calm note | C |
| Both joy and grieve | R |
| Notes few and strong and fine | Q |
| Gilt with sweet day's decline | Q |
| And sad with promise of a different sun | P |
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| 'Mid the loud concert harsh | S |
| Of this fog folded marsh | S |
| To me else dumb | A |
| Uranian Clearness come | A |
| Give me to breathe in peace and in surprise | D |
| The light thrill'd ether of your rarest skies | D |
| Till inmost absolution start | C |
| The welling in the grateful eyes | D |
| The heaving in the heart | C |
| Winnow with sighs | D |
| And wash away | G |
| With tears the dust and stain of clay | G |
| Till all the Song be Thine as beautiful as Morn | O |
| Bedeck'd with shining clouds of scorn | O |
| And Thou Inspirer deign to brood | C |
| O'er the delighted words and call them Very Good | C |
| This grant Clear Spirit and grant that I remain | N |
| Content to ask unlikely gifts in vain | N |
Coventry Patmore
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