The Comrade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKDDDLDMNOD PQDR RSTD U VW XYDZMDA2X B2C2C2C2C2ZD2E2F2BG2 C2H2I2 J2DRDC2YK2DL2M2D N2O2DDD YP2DDDDP2DQ2P2R2DD

WILD winged thing O brought I know not whenceA
To beat your life out in my life's low cageB
You strange familiar nearer than my fleshC
Yet distant as a star that were at firstD
A child with me a child yet elfin farE
And visibly of some unearthly breedF
Mirthfullest mate of all my mortal gamesG
Yet shedding on them some evasive gleamH
Of Latmian loneliness O seven thenI
Expert to lift the latch of our low doorJ
And profit by the hours when dusked aboutK
By human misintelligence our firstD
Weak fledgling flights were safeliest essayedD
Divine accomplice of those perilous sweetD
Low moth flights of the unadventured soulL
Above the world's dim garden now we sitD
After what stretch of years what stretch of wingsM
In the same cage together still as nearN
And still as strangeO
Only I know at lastD
That we are fellows till the last night fallsP
And that I shall not miss your comrade handsQ
Till they have closed my lids and by them setD
A taper that who knows may yet shine throughR
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Sister my comrade I have ached for youR
Sometimes to see you curb your pace to mineS
And bow your Maenad crest to the dull formsT
Of human usage I have loosed your handD
And whispered 'Go Since I am tethered here '-
And you have turned and breathing for replyU
'I too am pinioned as you too are free '-
Have caught me to such undreamed distancesV
As the last planets see when they look forthW
-
To the sentinel pacings of the outmost starsX
Nor these aloneY
Comrade my sister were your gifts More oftD
Has your impalpable wing brush bared for meZ
The heart of wonder in familiar thingsM
Unroofed dull rooms and hung above my headD
The cloudy glimpses of a vernal moonA2
Or all the autumn heaven ripe with starsX
-
And you have made a secret pact with SleepB2
And when she comes not or her feet delayC2
Toiled in low meadows of gray asphodelC2
Under a pale sky where no shadows fallC2
Then hooded like her to my side you stealC2
And the night grows like a great rumouring seaZ
And you a boat and I your passengerD2
And the tide lifts us with an indrawn breathE2
Out out upon the murmurs and the scentsF2
Through spray of splintered star beams or white rageB
Of desperate moon drawn waters on and onG2
To some blue ocean immarcescibleC2
That ever like a slow swung mirror rocksH2
The balanced breasts of sea birds motionlessI2
-
Yet other nights my sister you have beenJ2
The storm and I the leaf that fled on itD
Terrifically down voids that never knewR
The pity of creation or have feltD
The immitigable anguish of a soulC2
Left last in a long ruined world aloneY
And then your touch has drawn me back to earthK2
As in the night upon an unknown roadD
A scent of lilac breathing from the hedgeL2
Bespeaks the hidden farm the bedded cowsM2
And safety and the sense of human kindD
-
And I have climbed with you by hidden waysN2
To meet the dews of morning and have seenO2
The shy gods like retreating shadows fadeD
Or on the thymy reaches have surprisedD
Old Chiron sleeping and have waked him notD
-
Yet farther have I fared with you and knownY
Love and his sacred tremors and the ritesP2
Of his most inward temple and beyondD
His temple lights have seen the long gray wasteD
Where lonely thoughts like creatures of the nightD
Listen and wander where a city stoodD
And creeping down by waterless defilesP2
Under an iron midnight have I keptD
My vigil in the waste till dawn beganQ2
To move among the ruins and I sawP2
A sapling rooted in a fissured plinthR2
And a wren's nest in the thunder threatening handD
Of some old god of granite in the dustD

Edith Wharton



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