Soothsay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCADDEEFFDGGHGIJ GGKLLMMGNNOOGGNPPQQO ORKKGGSSKTTTTUCTTTVV TTTTTTTTTTWWGGTTWGGX XTTTTTTTGGTTTGGYYT| Let no man ask thee of anything | A |
| Not yearborn between Spring and Spring | A |
| More of all worlds than he can know | B |
| Each day the single sun doth show | B |
| A trustier gloss than thou canst give | C |
| From all wise scrolls demonstrative | C |
| The sea doth sigh and the wind sing | A |
| Let no man awe thee on any height | D |
| Of earthly kingship's mouldering might | D |
| The dust his heel holds meet for thy brow | E |
| Hath all of it been what both are now | E |
| And thou and he may plague together | F |
| A beggar's eyes in some dusty weather | F |
| When none that is now knows sound or sight | D |
| Crave thou no dower of earthly things | G |
| Unworthy Hope's imaginings | G |
| To have brought true birth of Song to be | H |
| And to have won hearts to Poesy | G |
| Or anywhere in the sun or rain | I |
| To have loved and been beloved again | J |
| Is loftiest reach of Hope's bright wings | G |
| The wild waifs cast up by the sea | G |
| Are diverse ever seasonably | K |
| Even so the soul tides still may land | L |
| A different drift upon the sand | L |
| But one the sea is evermore | M |
| And one be still 'twixt shore and shore | M |
| As the sea's life thy soul in thee | G |
| Say hast thou pride How then may fit | N |
| Thy mood with flatterers' silk spun wit | N |
| Haply the sweet voice lifts thy crest | O |
| A breeze of fame made manifest | O |
| Nay but then chaf'st at flattery Pause | G |
| Be sure thy wrath is not because | G |
| It makes thee feel thou lovest it | N |
| Let thy soul strive that still the same | P |
| Be early friendship's sacred flame | P |
| The affinities have strongest part | Q |
| In youth and draw men heart to heart | Q |
| As life wears on and finds no rest | O |
| The individual in each breast | O |
| Is tyrannous to sunder them | R |
| In the life drama's stern cue call | K |
| A friend's a part well prized by all | K |
| And if thou meet an enemy | G |
| What art thou that none such should be | G |
| Even so but if the two parts run | S |
| Into each other and grow one | S |
| Then comes the curtain's cue to fall | K |
| Whate'er by other's need is claimed | T |
| More than by thine to him unblamed | T |
| Resign it and if he should hold | T |
| What more than he thou lack'st bread gold | T |
| Or any good whereby we live | U |
| To thee such substance let him give | C |
| Freely nor he nor thou be shamed | T |
| Strive that thy works prove equal lest | T |
| That work which thou hast done the best | T |
| Should come to be to thee at length | V |
| Even as to envy seems the strength | V |
| Of others hateful and abhorr'd | T |
| Thine own above thyself made lord | T |
| Of self rebuke the bitterest | T |
| Unto the man of yearning thought | T |
| And aspiration to do nought | T |
| Is in itself almost an act | T |
| Being chasm fire and cataract | T |
| Of the soul's utter depths unseal'd | T |
| Yet woe to thee if once thou yield | T |
| Unto the act of doing nought | T |
| How callous seems beyond revoke | W |
| The clock with its last listless stroke | W |
| How much too late at length to trace | G |
| The hour on its forewarning face | G |
| The thing thou hast not dared to do | T |
| Behold this may be thus Ere true | T |
| It prove arise and bear thy yoke | W |
| Let lore of all Theology | G |
| Be to thy soul what it can be | G |
| But know the Power that fashions man | X |
| Measured not out thy little span | X |
| For thee to take the meting rod | T |
| In turn and so approve on God | T |
| Thy science of Theometry | T |
| To God at best to chance at worst | T |
| Give thanks for good things last as first | T |
| But windstrown blossom is that good | T |
| Whose apple is not gratitude | T |
| Even if no prayer uplift thy face | G |
| Let the sweet right to render grace | G |
| As thy soul's cherished child be nurs'd | T |
| Didst ever say Lo I forget | T |
| Such thought was to remember yet | T |
| As in a gravegarth count to see | G |
| The monuments of memory | G |
| Be this thy soul's appointed scope | Y |
| Gaze onward without claim to hope | Y |
| Nor gazing backward court regret | T |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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