Mauberley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBC D EF FGBG FHIJ AKJFJ JFL BMBB CFCB FNOO CCCFFC FFBF BBBB PFQF| I | A |
| Turned from the 'eau forte | B |
| Par Jaquemart' | B |
| To the strait head | B |
| Of Messalina | C |
| - | |
| 'His true Penelope | D |
| Was Flaubert ' | - |
| And his tool | E |
| The engraver's | F |
| - | |
| Firmness | F |
| Not the full smile | G |
| His art but an art | B |
| In profile | G |
| - | |
| Colourless | F |
| Pier Francesca | H |
| Pisanello lacking the skill | I |
| To forge Achaia | J |
| - | |
| II | A |
| For three years diabolus in the scale | K |
| He drank ambrosia | J |
| All passes ANANGKE prevails | F |
| Came end at last to that Arcadia | J |
| - | |
| He had moved amid her phantasmagoria | J |
| Amid her galaxies | F |
| NUKTIS 'AGALMA | L |
| - | |
| Drifted drifted precipitate | B |
| Asking time to be rid of | M |
| Of his bewilderment to designate | B |
| His new found orchid | B |
| - | |
| To be certain certain | C |
| Amid aerial flowers time for arrangements | F |
| Drifted on | C |
| To the final estrangement | B |
| - | |
| Unable in the supervening blankness | F |
| To sift TO AGATHON from the chaff | N |
| Until he found his sieve | O |
| Ultimately his seismograph | O |
| - | |
| Given that is his 'fundamental passion' | C |
| This urge to convey the relation | C |
| Of eye lid and cheek bone | C |
| By verbal manifestations | F |
| To present the series | F |
| Of curious heads in medallion | C |
| - | |
| He had passed inconscient full gaze | F |
| The wide branded irides | F |
| And botticellian sprays implied | B |
| In their diastasis | F |
| - | |
| Which ansethesis noted a year late | B |
| And weighed revealed his great affect | B |
| Orchid mandate | B |
| Of Eros a retrospect | B |
| - | |
| Mouths biting empty air | P |
| The still stone dogs | F |
| Caught in metamorphosis were | Q |
| Left him as epilogues | F |
Ezra Pound
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