A Captain Of Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCDEEFGFHHIJIFIF KLGLFMMKMFFGFNNGFFG OOPPPOQQMMOOO| On a portrait of Coventry Patmore by J S Sargent R A | A |
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| Look on him This is he whose works ye know | B |
| Ye have adored thanked loved him no not him | C |
| But that of him which proud portentous woe | B |
| To its own grim | C |
| Presentment was not potent to subdue | D |
| Nor all the reek of Erebus to dim | C |
| This and not him ye knew | D |
| Look on him now Love worship if ye can | E |
| The very man | E |
| Ye may not He has trod the ways afar | F |
| The fatal ways of parting and farewell | G |
| Where all the paths of pain ed greatness are | F |
| Where round and always round | H |
| The abhorr ed words resound | H |
| The words accursed of comfortable men | I |
| 'For ever' and infinite glooms intolerable | J |
| With spacious replication give again | I |
| And hollow jar | F |
| The words abhorred of comfortable men | I |
| You the stern pities of the gods debar | F |
| To drink where he has drunk | K |
| The moonless mere of sighs | L |
| And pace the places infamous to tell | G |
| Where God wipes not the tears from any eyes | L |
| Where through the ways of dreadful greatness are | F |
| He knows the perilous rout | M |
| That all those ways about | M |
| Sink into doom and sinking still are sunk | K |
| And if his sole and solemn term thereout | M |
| He has attained to love ye shall not dare | F |
| One who has journeyed there | F |
| Ye shall mark well | G |
| The mighty cruelties which arm and mar | F |
| That countenance of control | N |
| With minatory warnings of a soul | N |
| That hath to its own selfhood been most fell | G |
| And is not weak to spare | F |
| And lo that hair | F |
| Is blanch ed with the travel heats of hell | G |
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| If any be | O |
| That shall with rites of reverent piety | O |
| Approach this strong | P |
| Sad soul of sovereign Song | P |
| Nor fail and falter with the intimidate throng | P |
| If such there be | O |
| These these are only they | Q |
| Have trod the self same way | Q |
| The never twice revolving portals heard | M |
| Behind them clang infernal and that word | M |
| Abhorr ed sighed of kind mortality | O |
| As he | O |
| Ah even as he | O |
Francis Thompson
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