Love Letters Of A Violinist. Letter Vii. Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB B CDDCCD EFFGGF H IJJIIK H LMMLLM H HNNHHN H OPPOOO H QRRQQR O OSSOOS O HTTHHT O UFFUUF O GVVGGV O OWWOOW H HXXHHX H YOOYYO H ZCCZZC H XKKXXK H A2B2B2A2A2B2 O C2VVC2C2V O D2HHD2D2HLetter VII Hope | A |
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I | - |
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O tears of mine Ye start I know not why | - |
Unless indeed to prove that I am glad | B |
Albeit fast wedded to a thought so sad | B |
I scarce can deem that my despair will die | - |
Or that the sun careering up the sky | - |
Will warm again a world that seem'd so mad | B |
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II | - |
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And yet who knows The world is to the mind | C |
Much as we make it and the things we tend | D |
Wear for the nonce the liveries that we lend | D |
And some such things are fair though ill defined | C |
And some are scathing like the wintry wind | C |
And some begin and some will never end | D |
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III | - |
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How can I think ye tears that I have been | E |
The thing I was so doubting so unfit | F |
And so unblest with brows for ever knit | F |
And hair unkempt and face becoming lean | G |
And cold and pale as if I late had seen | G |
Medusa's head and all the scowls of it | F |
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IV | H |
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Oh why is this Oh why have I so long | I |
Brooded on grief and made myself a bane | J |
To golden fields and all the happy plain | J |
Where once I met the Lady of my Song | I |
The lady for whose sake I shall be strong | I |
But never weak or diffident again | K |
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V | H |
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I was too shorn of hope I did employ | L |
Words like a mourner and to Her I bow'd | M |
As one might kneel to Glory in its shroud | M |
But I am crown'd to day and not so coy | L |
Crown'd with a kiss and sceptred with a joy | L |
And all the world shall see that I am proud | M |
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VI | H |
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I shall be sated now I shall receive | H |
More than the guerdon of my wildest thought | N |
More than the most that ecstasy has taught | N |
To saints in Heaven and more than poets weave | H |
In madcap verse to warn us or deceive | H |
And more than Adam knew ere Eve was brought | N |
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VII | H |
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I know the meaning now of all the signs | O |
And all the joys I dreamt of in my dreams | P |
I realise the comfort of the streams | P |
When they reflect the shadows of the pines | O |
I know that there is hope for celandines | O |
And that a tree is merrier than it seems | O |
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VIII | H |
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I know the mighty hills have much to tell | Q |
And that they quake at times in undertone | R |
And talk to stars because so much alone | R |
And so unlov'd I know that in the dell | Q |
Flowers are betroth'd and that a wedding bell | Q |
Rings in the breeze on which a moth has flown | R |
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IX | O |
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I know such things because to loving hearts | O |
Nature is keen and pleasures long delay'd | S |
Quicken the pulse and turn a truant shade | S |
Into a sprite equipp'd with all the darts | O |
That once were Cupid's and the day departs | O |
And sun and moon conjoin as man with maid | S |
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X | O |
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The lover knows how grand a thing is love | H |
How grand how sweet a thing and how divine | T |
More than the pouring out of choicest wine | T |
More than the whiteness of the whitest dove | H |
More than the glittering of the stars above | H |
And such a love O Love is thine and mine | T |
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XI | O |
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To me the world to day has grown so fair | U |
I dare not trust myself to think of it | F |
Visions of light around me seem to flit | F |
And Phoebus loosens all his golden hair | U |
Right down the sky and daisies turn and stare | U |
At things we see not with our human wit | F |
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XII | O |
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And here beside me there are mosses green | G |
In shelter'd nooks and gnats in bright array | V |
And lordly beetles out for holiday | V |
And spiders small that work in silver sheen | G |
To make a kirtle for the Fairy Queen | G |
That she may don it on the First of May | V |
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XIII | O |
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I hear in thought I hear the very words | O |
That Arethusa turn'd into a brook | W |
Spoke to Diana when her leave she took | W |
Of all she lov'd low weeping as the birds | O |
Shrill'd out of tune and all the frighten'd herds | O |
Scamper'd to death in spite of pipe and crook | W |
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XIV | H |
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I know to day why winds were made to sigh | H |
And why they hide themselves and why they gloat | X |
In some old ruin Mote confers with mote | X |
And shell with shell and corals live and die | H |
And die and live below the deep And why | H |
To make a necklace for my lady's throat | X |
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XV | H |
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And yet the world in all its varied girth | Y |
Lacks what we look for There is something base | O |
In mere existence something in the face | O |
Of men and women which accepts the earth | Y |
And all its havings as its right of birth | Y |
But not its quittance not its resting place | O |
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XVI | H |
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There have been moments at the set of sun | Z |
When I have long'd for wings upon the wind | C |
That I might seek a planet to my mind | C |
More full develop'd than this present one | Z |
With more of scope when all is said and done | Z |
To satisfy the wants of human kind | C |
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XVII | H |
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A world with thee a home in some remote | X |
And unknown region which no sage's ken | K |
Has compass'd yet of which no human pen | K |
Has traced the limits where no terrors float | X |
In wind or wave and where the soul may note | X |
A thousand raptures unreveal'd to men | K |
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XVIII | H |
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To be transported in a magic car | A2 |
On some transcendent night in early June | B2 |
Beyond the horn'd projections of the moon | B2 |
To have our being in a bridal star | A2 |
In lands of light where only angels are | A2 |
Athwart the spaces where the comets swoon | B2 |
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XIX | O |
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To be all this to have in our estate | C2 |
Worlds without stint and quit them for the clay | V |
Of some new planet where a summer's day | V |
Lasts fifty years and there to celebrate | C2 |
Our Golden Wedding by the will of Fate | C2 |
This were a subject for a seraph's lay | V |
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XX | O |
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This were a life to live a life indeed | D2 |
A thing to die for if in truth we die | H |
When we but put our mortal vestments by | H |
This were a climax for a lover's need | D2 |
Sweeter than songs and holier than the creed | D2 |
Of half the zealots who have sought the sky | H |
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