In Durance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFGHIJKBLMNO PQ RNNM BSPQNITNQUVW IQQXIK YKZQA2QFB2| A | |
| am homesick after mine own kind | B |
| Oh I know that there are folk about me friendly faces | C |
| But I am homesick after mine own kind | B |
| - | |
| 'These sell our pictures' Oh well | D |
| They reach me not touch me some edge or that | E |
| But reach me not and all my life's become | F |
| One flame that reaches not beyond | G |
| My heart's own hearth | H |
| Or hides among the ashes there for thee | I |
| Thee' Oh 'Thee' is who cometh first | J |
| Out of mine own soul kin | K |
| For I am homesick after mine own kind | B |
| And ordinary people touch me not | L |
| And I am homesick | M |
| After mine own kind that know and feel | N |
| And have some breath for beauty and the arts | O |
| - | |
| Aye I am wistful for my kin of the spirit | P |
| And have none about me save in the shadows | Q |
| When come they surging of power 'DAEMON ' | - |
| 'Quasi KALOUN ' S T says Beauty is most that a | R |
| 'calling to the soul' | N |
| Well then so call they the swirlers out of the mist of my soul | N |
| They that come mewards bearing old magic | M |
| - | |
| But for all that I am homesick after mine own kind | B |
| And would meet kindred even as I am | S |
| Flesh shrouded bearing the secret | P |
| 'All they that with strange sadness' | Q |
| Have the earth in mockery and are kind to all | N |
| My fellows aye I know the glory | I |
| Of th' unbounded ones but ye that hide | T |
| As I hide most the while | N |
| And burst forth to the windows only whiles or whiles | Q |
| For love or hope or beauty or for power | U |
| Then smoulder with the lids half closed | V |
| And are untouched by echoes of the world | W |
| - | |
| Oh ye my fellows with the seas between us some be | I |
| Purple and sapphire for the silver shafts | Q |
| Of sun and spray all shattered at the bows | Q |
| And some the hills hold off | X |
| The little hills to east of us though here we | I |
| Have damp and plain to be our shutting in | K |
| - | |
| And yet my soul sings Up ' and we are one | Y |
| Yea thou and Thou and THOU and all my kin | K |
| To whom my breast and arms are ever warm | Z |
| For that I love ye as the wind the trees | Q |
| That holds their blossoms and their leaves in cure | A2 |
| And calls the utmost singing from the boughs | Q |
| That Hhout him save the aspen were as dumb | F |
| Still shade and bade no whisper speak the birds of how | B2 |
| 'Beyond beyond beyond there lies ' | - |
Ezra Pound
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