The Wood-spring To The Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACCDEFGFHHIIHJKLL MM NOPP HHHHQQRHSTR HHUVWWXYXZZA2KMM B2C2HHGHG ND2E2D2E2E2F2E2F2G2H 2F2 I2I2J2ZJ2Z XK2XK2XXXXL2X HJ2M2M2HHHM2M2M2M2M2 NON2O2O2O2M2HO2H M2M2P2P2D2D2M2M2Q2Q2 HHQ2Dawn cool dew cool | A |
Gleams the surface of my pool | A |
Bird haunted fern enchanted | B |
Where but tempered spirits rule | A |
Stars do not trace their mystic lines | C |
In my confines | C |
I take a double night within my breast | D |
A night of darkened heavens a night of leaves | E |
And in the two fold dark I hear the owl | F |
Puff at his velvet horn | G |
And the wolves howl | F |
Even daylight comes with a touch of gold | H |
Not overbold | H |
And shows dwarf cornel and the twin flowers | I |
Below the balsam bowers | I |
Their tints enamelled in my dew drop shield | H |
Too small even for a thirsty fawn | J |
To quench upon | K |
I hold my crystal at one level | L |
There where you see the liquid bevel | L |
Break in silver and go free | M |
Singing to its destiny | M |
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Give Poet give | N |
Thus only shalt thou live | O |
Give for 'tis thy joyous doom | P |
To charm to comfort to illume | P |
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Speak to the maiden and the child | H |
With accents deep and mild | H |
Tell them of the world so wide | H |
In words of wonder and pure pride | H |
Touched with the rapture of surprise | Q |
That dwells in a child angel's eyes | Q |
Awed with the strangeness of new birth | R |
When the flaming seraph sent | H |
To lead him into Paradise | S |
Calls his name with the mother's voice | T |
He has just ceased to hear on earth | R |
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Give to the youth his heart's content | H |
But power with prudence blent | H |
Thicken his sinews with love | U |
With courage his heart prove | V |
Till over his spirit shall roll | W |
The vast wave of control | W |
In the cages and dens of strife | X |
Where men draw breath | Y |
Thick with a curse at the dear thing called life | X |
Give them courage to bear | Z |
Strength to aspire and dare | Z |
Give them hopes rooted in stone | A2 |
That the loveliest flowers take on | K |
Bind on their brows with a gesture free | M |
The palm green bays of liberty | M |
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Give to the mothers of men | B2 |
The knowledge of joy in pain | C2 |
Give them the sense of reward | H |
That grew in the breast of the Lord | H |
On the dawn of the seventh morn | G |
For 'tis they who re create the world | H |
Whenever a child is born | G |
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Give Poet give | N |
Give them songs that charm and fill | D2 |
The soul with an alluring pleasure | E2 |
Prelusive to a deeper thrill | D2 |
A richer tone a fuller measure | E2 |
Like voices veiled with hidden treasure | E2 |
Of angels on a windy morning | F2 |
That first far off then all together | E2 |
Come with a glorious clarion calling | F2 |
And when they swoon beneath the spell | G2 |
Recapture them to hear the echoes | H2 |
Falling falling falling | F2 |
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To those stoned for the truth | I2 |
Give ruth | I2 |
Give manna for the mourner's mouth | J2 |
Sovereign as air | Z |
For his heart's drouth | J2 |
A prayer | Z |
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Give to dead souls that mock at life | X |
Aweary of their cankered hearts | K2 |
Weary of sleep and weary of strife | X |
Weary of markets and of arts | K2 |
Helve them a song of life | X |
Two edged with joyous life | X |
Tempered trusty with life | X |
Proud pointed with wild life | X |
Plunge it as lightning plunges | L2 |
Stab them to life | X |
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Give to those who grieve in secret | H |
Those who bear the sorrows of earth | J2 |
The deep unappeasable longings | M2 |
Which beset them with throngings and throngings | M2 |
As on a windless night | H |
Through the fold of a dark mantle furled | H |
Gleams on our world world after unknown world | H |
Give them peace | M2 |
Wide as the veil that hides God's face | M2 |
The pure plenitude of space | M2 |
In which our universe is but a glittering crease | M2 |
Give them such peace | M2 |
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Give Poet give | N |
Thus only shalt thou live | O |
Give as we give who are hidden | N2 |
In myriad dimples of rock and fern | O2 |
Give as we give unbidden | O2 |
To tarn and rillet and burn | O2 |
Where the lake dreams | M2 |
Where the fall is hurled | H |
Striving to sweeten | O2 |
The oceans of the world | H |
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Should my song for a moment cease | M2 |
Silence fall in the woodland peace | M2 |
Should I wilfully check the flow | P2 |
Bubbling and dancing up from below | P2 |
Say to my heart be still be still | D2 |
Let the murmur die with the rill | D2 |
Then should the glittering grey sea things | M2 |
Sigh as they wallow the under springs | M2 |
Where the deep brine pools used to lie | Q2 |
Deserts vast would stare at the sky | Q2 |
And even thy rich heart | H |
O Poet Poet | H |
Even thy rich heart run dry | Q2 |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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