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The Stream's Secret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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What thing unto mine ear	A
Wouldst thou convey what secret thing	B
O wandering water ever whispering	B
Surely thy speech shall be of her	C
Thou water O thou whispering wanderer	C
What message dost thou bring	B
	-
Say hath not Love leaned low	D
This hour beside thy far well head	E
And there through jealous hollowed fingers said	E
The thing that most I long to know	D
Murmuring with curls all dabbled in thy flow	D
And washed lips rosy red	E
	-
He told it to thee there	F
Where thy voice hath a louder tone	G
But where it welters to this little moan	G
His will decrees that I should hear	A
Now speak for with the silence is no fear	H
And I am all alone	G
	-
Shall Time not still endow	I
One hour with life and I and she	J
Slake in one kiss the thirst of memory	J
Say streams lest Love should disavow	I
Thy service and the bird upon the bough	I
Sing first to tell it me	J
	-
What whisperest thou Nay why	K
Name the dead hours I mind them well	L
Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell	L
With desolate eyes to know them by	K
That hour must still be born ere it can die	K
Of that I'd have thee tell	L
	-
But hear before thou speak	M
Withhold I pray the vain behest	N
That while the maze hath still its bower for quest	N
My burning heart should cease to seek	M
Be sure that Love ordained for souls more meek	M
His roadside dells of rest	N
	-
Stream when this silver thread	E
In flood time is a torrent brown	O
May any bulwark bind thy foaming crown	O
Shall not the waters surge and spread	E
And to the crannied boulders of their bed	E
Still shoot the dead drift down	O
	-
Let no rebuke find place	P
In speech of thine or it shall prove	Q
That thou dost ill expound the words of Love	R
Even as thine eddy's rippling race	P
Would blur the perfect image of his face	P
I will have none thereof	R
	-
O learn and understand	S
That 'gainst the wrongs himself did wreak	M
Love sought her aid until her shadowy cheek	M
And eyes beseeching gave command	S
And compassed in her close compassionate hand	S
My heart must burn and speak	M
	-
For then at last we spoke	T
What eyes so oft had told to eyes	U
Through that long lingering silence whose half sighs	U
Alone the buried secret broke	T
Which with snatched hands and lips' reverberate stroke	T
Then from the heart did rise	U
	-
But she is far away	V
Now nor the hours of night grown hoar	W
Bring yet to me long gazing from the door	W
The wind stirred robe of roseate gray	V
And rose crown of the hour that leads the day	V
When we shall meet once more	W
	-
Dark as thy blinded wave	X
When brimming midnight floods the glen	Y
Bright as the laughter of thy runnels when	Y
The dawn yields all the light they crave	X
Even so these hours to wound and that to save	X
Are sisters in Love's ken	Y
	-
Oh sweet her bending grace	P
Then when I kneel beside her feet	Z
And sweet her eyes' o'erhanging heaven and sweet	Z
The gathering folds of her embrace	P
And her fall'n hair at last shed round my face	P
When breaths and tears shall meet	Z
	-
Beneath her sheltering hair	F
In the warm silence near her breast	N
Our kisses and our sobs shall sink to rest	N
As in some still trance made aware	F
That day and night have wrought to fulness there	F
And Love has built our nest	N
	-
And as in the dim grove	A2
When the rains cease that hushed them long	B2
'Mid glistening boughs the song birds wake to song	B2
So from our hearts deep shrined in love	R
While the leaves throb beneath around above	R
The quivering notes shall throng	B2
	-
Till tenderest words found vain	C2
Draw back to wonder mute and deep	D2
And closed lips in closed arms a silence keep	D2
Subdued by memory's circling strain	C2
The wind rapt sound that the wind brings again	Y
While all the willows weep	D2
	-
Then by her summoning art	E2
Shall memory conjure back the sere	H
Autumnal Springs from many a dying year	H
Born dead and bitter to the heart	E2
The very ways where now we walk apart	E2
Who then shall cling so near	H
	-
And with each thought new grown	G
Some sweet caress or some sweet name	F2
Low breathed shall let me know her thought the same	F2
Making me rich with every tone	G
And touch of the dear heaven so long unknown	G
That filled my dreams with flame	F2
	-
Pity and love shall burn	G2
In her pressed cheek and cherishing hands	H2
And from the living spirit of love that stands	H2
Between her lips to soothe and yearn	G2
Each separate breath shall clasp me round in turn	G2
And loose my spirit's bands	H2
	-
Oh passing sweet and dear	H
Then when the worshipped form and face	P
Are felt at length in darkling close embrace	P
Round which so oft the sun shone clear	H
With mocking light and pitiless atmosphere	H
In many an hour and place	P
	-
Ah me with what proud growth	I2
Shall that hour's thirsting race be run	J2
While for each several sweetness still begun	J2
Afresh endures love's endless drouth	I2
Sweet hands sweet hair sweet cheeks sweet eyes sweet mouth	I2
Each singly wooed and won	J2
	-
Yet most with the sweet soul	K2
Shall love's espousals then be knit	L2
What time the governing cloud sheds peace from it	L2
O'er tremulous wings that touch the goal	K2
And on the unmeasured height of Love's control	K2
The lustral fires are lit	L2
	-
Therefore when breast and cheek	M
Now part from long embraces free	J
Each on the other gazing shall but see	J
A self that has no need to speak	M
All things unsought yet nothing more to seek	M
One love in unity	J
	-
O water wandering past	M2
Albeit to thee I speak this thing	B
O water thou that wanderest whispering	B
Thou keep'st thy counsel to the last	M2
What spell upon thy bosom should Love cast	M2
Its secret thence to wring	B
	-
Nay must thou hear the tale	N2
Of the past days the heavy debt	O2
Of life that obdurate time withholds ere yet	O2
To win thine ear these prayers prevail	N2
And by thy voice Love's self with high All hail	N2
Yield up the amulet	P2
	-
How should all this be told	Q2
All the sad sum of wayworn days	R2
Heart's anguish in the impenetrable maze	R2
And on the waste uncoloured wold	Q2
The visible burthen of the sun grown cold	Q2
And the moon's labouring gaze	R2
	-
Alas shall hope be nurs'd	S2
On life's all succouring breast in vain	C2
And made so perfect only to be slain	C2
Or shall not rather the sweet thirst	S2
Even yet rejoice the heart with warmth dispers'd	S2
And strength grown fair again	Y
	-
Stands it not by the door	W
Love's Hour Till she and I shall meet	Z
With bodiless form and unapparent feet	Z
That cast no shadow yet before	W
Though round its head the dawn begins to pour	W
The breath that makes day sweet	Z
	-
Its eyes invisible	T2
Watch till the dial's thin thrown shade	U2
Be born yea till the journeying line be laid	U2
Upon the point that wakes the spell	L
And there in lovelier light than tongue can tell	L
Its presence stands array'd	U2
	-
Its soul remembers yet	O2
Those sunless hours that passed it by	K
And still it hears the night's disconsolate cry	K
And feels the branches wringing wet	O2
Cast on its brow that may not once forget	O2
Dumb tears from the blind sky	K
	-
But oh when now her foot	V2
Draws near for whose sake night and day	V
Were long in weary longing sighed away	V
The hour of Love 'mid airs grown mute	W2
Shall sing beside the door and Love's own lute	W2
Thrill to the passionate lay	V
	-
Thou know'st for Love has told	Q2
Within thine ear O stream how soon	X2
That song shall lift its sweet appointed tune	X2
O tell me for my lips are cold	Q2
And in my veins the blood is waxing old	Q2
Even while I beg the boon	X2
	-
So in that hour of sighs	U
Assuaged shall we beside this stone	G
Yield thanks for grace while in thy mirror shown	G
The twofold image softly lies	U
Until we kiss and each in other's eyes	U
Is imaged all alone	G
	-
Still silent Can no art	E2
Of Love's then move thy pity Nay	V
To thee let nothing come that owns his sway	V
Let happy lovers have no part	E2
With thee nor even so sad and poor a heart	E2
As thou hast spurned to day	V
	-
To day Lo night is here	A
The glen grows heavy with some veil	N2
Risen from the earth or fall'n to make earth pale	N2
And all stands hushed to eye and ear	A
Until the night wind shake the shade like fear	H
And every covert quail	N2
	-
Ah by another wave	X
On other airs the hour must come	Y2
Which to thy heart my love shall call me home	Z2
Between the lips of the low cave	X
Against that night the lapping waters lave	X
And	A3