The Pool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEDDE AFFAGAAA AAGGDAHAAAADDIAGDDA AAA| Reach over my Undine and clutch me a reed | A |
| Nymph of mine idleness notch me a pipe | B |
| For I am fulfilled of the silence and long | C |
| For to utter the sense of the silence in song | C |
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| Down stream all the rapids are troubled with pebbles | D |
| That fetter and fret what the water would utter | E |
| And it rushes and splashes in tremulous trebles | D |
| It makes haste through the shallows its soul is | D |
| aflutter | E |
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| But here all the sound is serene and outspread | A |
| In the murmurous moods of a slow swirling pool | F |
| Here all the sounds are unhurried and cool | F |
| Every silence is kith to a sound they are wed | A |
| They are mated are mingled are tangled are | G |
| bound | A |
| Every hush is in love with a sound every sound | A |
| By the law of its life to some silence is bound | A |
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| Then here will we hide idle here and abide | A |
| In the covert here close by the waterside | A |
| Here where the slim flattered reeds are aquiver | G |
| With the exquisite hints of the reticent river | G |
| Here where the lips of this pool are the lips | D |
| Of all pools let us listen and question and wait | A |
| Let us hark to the whispers of love and of death | H |
| Let us hark to the lispings of life and of fate | A |
| In this place where pale silences flower into sound | A |
| Let us strive for some secret of all the profound | A |
| Deep and calm Silence that meshes men 'round | A |
| There's as much of God hinted in one ripple's | D |
| plashes | D |
| There's as much of Truth glints in yon dragon | I |
| fly's flight | A |
| There's as much Purpose gleams where yonder | G |
| trout flashes | D |
| As in any book else could we read things | D |
| aright | A |
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| Then nymph of mine indolence here let us hide | A |
| Learn listen and question idle here and abide | A |
| Where the rushes and lilies lean low to the tide | A |
Don Marquis
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