The Cloud Confines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCCADEDE FGGFHHHFDEDE IJJIKKKIDEDE LMMLNNNLDEDE NNNOPPPNDEDEThe day is dark and the night | A |
To him that would search their heart | B |
No lips of cloud that will part | B |
Nor morning song in the light | A |
Only gazing alone | C |
To him wild shadows are shown | C |
Deep under deep unknown | C |
And height above unknown height | A |
Still we say as we go | D |
Strange to think by the way | E |
Whatever there is to know | D |
That shall we know one day | E |
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The Past is over and fled | F |
Nam'd new we name it the old | G |
Thereof some tale hath been told | G |
But no word comes from the dead | F |
Whether at all they be | H |
Or whether as bond or free | H |
Or whether they too were we | H |
Or by what spell they have sped | F |
Still we say as we go | D |
Strange to think by the way | E |
Whatever there is to know | D |
That shall we know one day | E |
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What of the heart of hate | I |
That beats in thy breast O Time | J |
Red strife from the furthest prime | J |
And anguish of fierce debate | I |
War that shatters her slain | K |
And peace that grinds them as grain | K |
And eyes fix'd ever in vain | K |
On the pitiless eyes of Fate | I |
Still we say as we go | D |
Strange to think by the way | E |
Whatever there is to know | D |
That shall we know one day | E |
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What of the heart of love | L |
That bleeds in thy breast O Man | M |
Thy kisses snatch'd 'neath the ban | M |
Of fangs that mock them above | L |
Thy bells prolong'd unto knells | N |
Thy hope that a breath dispels | N |
Thy bitter forlorn farewells | N |
And the empty echoes thereof | L |
Still we say as we go | D |
Strange to think by the way | E |
Whatever there is to know | D |
That shall we know one day | E |
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The sky leans dumb on the sea | N |
Aweary with all its wings | N |
And oh the song the sea sings | N |
Is dark everlastingly | O |
Our past is clean forgot | P |
Our present is and is not | P |
Our future's a seal'd seedplot | P |
And what betwixt them are we | N |
We who say as we go | D |
Strange to think by the way | E |
Whatever there is to know | D |
That shall we know one day | E |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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