Constancy In Inconstancy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGBHIJKLCMNNOPQR STUVIIWGBXUYZA2B2FC2 D2E2F2G2OH2H2H2JF2I2 TH2J2H2K2UJAJJJL2M2J H2J| An Old Man s Confession | A |
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| SHE has a large still heart this lady of mine | B |
| Not mine i'faith nor would I that she were | C |
| She walks this world of ours like Grecian nymph | D |
| Pure with a marble pureness moving on | E |
| Among the herd of men environed round | F |
| With native airs of deep Olympian calm | G |
| I have a great love for that lady of mine | B |
| I like to watch her motions trick of face | H |
| And turn of thought when speaking high and wise | I |
| The tongue of gods not men Ay every day | J |
| And twenty times a day I start to catch | K |
| Some look or gesture of familiar mould | L |
| And then my panting soul leans forth to her | C |
| Like some sick traveller who astonied sees | M |
| Gliding across the distant twilight fields | N |
| His lovely lost beloved memory fields | N |
| The shadowy people of an earlier world | O |
| I have a friend how dearly liked heart warm | P |
| Did I confess sure she and all would smile | Q |
| I watch her as she steals in some dull room | R |
| That brightens at her entrance slow lets fall | S |
| A word or two of wise simplicity | T |
| Then goes and at her going all seems dark | U |
| Little she knows this little thinks each brow | V |
| Lightens each heart grows purer with her eyes | I |
| Good honest eyes clear upward righteous eyes | I |
| That look as if they saw the dim unseen | W |
| And learnt from thence their deep compassionate calm | G |
| Why do I precious hold this friend of mine | B |
| Why in our talks our quiet fireside talks | X |
| When we two earnest travellers through the dark | U |
| Grasp at the guiding threads that homeward lead | Y |
| Seems it another soul than hers looks out | Z |
| From these her eyes until I ofttimes start | A2 |
| And quiver as when some soft ignorant hand | B2 |
| Touches the barb hid in a long healed wound | F |
| Yet still no blame but thanks to thee dear friend | C2 |
| Ay even when we wander back at eve | D2 |
| They careless arm loose linked within my own | E2 |
| The same height as I gaze down nay the hair | F2 |
| Her very color fluttering 'neath the stars | G2 |
| The same large stars which lit that earlier world | O |
| I have another love whose dewy looks | H2 |
| Are fresh with life's young dawn I prophesy | H2 |
| The streak of light now trembling on the hills | H2 |
| Will broaden out into a glorious day | J |
| Thou sweet one meek as good and good as fair | F2 |
| Wise as a woman harmless as a child | I2 |
| I love thee well And yet not thee not thee | T |
| God knows they know who sit among the stars | H2 |
| As one whose sun was darkened before noon | J2 |
| Creeps patiently along the twilight lands | H2 |
| Sees glow worms meteors or tapers kind | K2 |
| Of an hour's burning stops awhile to mark | U |
| Thanks heaven for them but never calls them day | J |
| So love I these and more Yet thou my sun | A |
| Who rose leaped to thy zenith sat there throned | J |
| And made the whole earth day look if thou canst | J |
| Out of thy veil d glory and behold | J |
| How all these lesser lights but come and go | L2 |
| Mere reflexes of thee Be it so I keep | M2 |
| My face unto the eastward where thou stand'st | J |
| I know thou stand'st behind the purpling hills | H2 |
| And I shall wake and find morn in the world | J |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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