Sister Songs-an Offering To Two Sisters - The Proem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACDCDEECFAFGHHGI JKIKJJILLMNHOONPAPQA AQRORRSORRSO RRAATAST| Shrewd winds and shrill were these the speech of May | A |
| A ragged slag grey sky invested so | B |
| Mary's spoilt nursling wert thou wont to go | B |
| Or THOU Sun god and song god say | A |
| Could singer pipe one tiniest linnet lay | A |
| While Song did turn away his face from song | C |
| Or who could be | D |
| In spirit or in body hale for long | C |
| Old AEsculap's best Master lacking thee | D |
| At length then thou art here | E |
| On the earth's lethed ear | E |
| Thy voice of light rings out exultant strong | C |
| Through dreams she stirs and murmurs at that summons dear | F |
| From its red leash my heart strains tamelessly | A |
| For Spring leaps in the womb of the young year | F |
| Nay was it not brought forth before | G |
| And we waited to behold it | H |
| Till the sun's hand should unfold it | H |
| What the year's young bosom bore | G |
| Even so it came nor knew we that it came | I |
| In the sun's eclipse | J |
| Yet the birds have plighted vows | K |
| And from the branches pipe each other's name | I |
| Yet the season all the boughs | K |
| Has kindled to the finger tips | J |
| Mark yonder how the long laburnum drips | J |
| Its jocund spilth of fire its honey of wild flame | I |
| Yea and myself put on swift quickening | L |
| And answer to the presence of a sudden Spring | L |
| From cloud zoned pinnacles of the secret spirit | M |
| Song falls precipitant in dizzying streams | N |
| And like a mountain hold when war shouts stir it | H |
| The mind's recessed fastness casts to light | O |
| Its gleaming multitudes that from every height | O |
| Unfurl the flaming of a thousand dreams | N |
| Now therefore thou who bring'st the year to birth | P |
| Who guid'st the bare and dabbled feet of May | A |
| Sweet stem to that rose Christ who from the earth | P |
| Suck'st our poor prayers conveying them to Him | Q |
| Be aidant tender Lady to my lay | A |
| Of thy two maidens somewhat must I say | A |
| Ere shadowy twilight lashes drooping dim | Q |
| Day's dreamy eyes from us | R |
| Ere eve has struck and furled | O |
| The beamy textured tent transpicuous | R |
| Of webbed coerule wrought and woven calms | R |
| Whence has paced forth the lambent footed sun | S |
| And Thou disclose my flower of song upcurled | O |
| Who from Thy fair irradiant palms | R |
| Scatterest all love and loveliness as alms | R |
| Yea Holy One | S |
| Who coin'st Thyself to beauty for the world | O |
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| Then Spring's little children your lauds do ye upraise | R |
| To Sylvia O Sylvia her sweet feat ways | R |
| Your lovesome labours lay away | A |
| And trick you out in holiday | A |
| For syllabling to Sylvia | T |
| And all you birds on branches lave your mouths with May | A |
| To bear with me this burthen | S |
| For singing to Sylvia | T |
Francis Thompson
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