To A Poet Breaking Silence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFFGHHAAIJ KKGGJJLLJJ JJDDLLHHJJJJLLMNLLLL FFJJJ JJOPQLAARRPSLLNNLLToo wearily had we and song | A |
Been left to look and left to long | A |
Yea song and we to long and look | B |
Since thine acquainted feet forsook | B |
The mountain where the Muses hymn | C |
For Sinai and the Seraphim | D |
Now in both the mountains' shine | E |
Dress thy countenance twice divine | E |
From Moses and the Muses draw | F |
The Tables of thy double Law | F |
His rod born fount and Castaly | F |
Let the one rock bring forth for thee | G |
Renewing so from either spring | H |
The songs which both thy countries sing | H |
Or we shall fear lest heavened thus long | A |
Thou should'st forget thy native song | A |
And mar thy mortal melodies | I |
With broken stammer of the skies | J |
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Ah let the sweet birds of the Lord | K |
With earth's waters make accord | K |
Teach how the crucifix may be | G |
Carven from the laurel tree | G |
Fruit of the Hesperides | J |
Burnish take on Eden trees | J |
The Muses' sacred grove be wet | L |
With the red dew of Olivet | L |
And Sappho lay her burning brows | J |
In white Cecilia's lap of snows | J |
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Thy childhood must have felt the stings | J |
Of too divine o'ershadowings | J |
Its odorous heart have been a blossom | D |
That in darkness did unbosom | D |
Those fire flies of God to invite | L |
Burning spirits which by night | L |
Bear upon their laden wing | H |
To such hearts impregnating | H |
For flowers that night wings fertilize | J |
Mock down the stars' unsteady eyes | J |
And with a happy sleepless glance | J |
Gaze the moon out of countenance | J |
I think thy girlhood's watchers must | L |
Have took thy folded songs on trust | L |
And felt them as one feels the stir | M |
Of still lightnings in the hair | N |
When conscious hush expects the cloud | L |
To speak the golden secret loud | L |
Which tacit air is privy to | L |
Flasked in the grape the wine they knew | L |
Ere thy poet mouth was able | F |
For its first young starry babble | F |
Keep'st thou not yet that subtle grace | J |
Yea in this silent interspace | J |
God sets His poems in thy face | J |
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The loom which mortal verse affords | J |
Out of weak and mortal words | J |
Wovest thou thy singing weed in | O |
To a rune of thy far Eden | P |
Vain are all disguises Ah | Q |
Heavenly incognita | L |
Thy mien bewrayeth through that wrong | A |
The great Uranian House of Song | A |
As the vintages of earth | R |
Taste of the sun that riped their birth | R |
We know what never cadent Sun | P |
Thy lamped clusters throbbed upon | S |
What plumed feet the winepress trod | L |
Thy wine is flavorous of God | L |
Whatever singing robe thou wear | N |
Has the Paradisal air | N |
And some gold feather it has kept | L |
Shows what Floor it lately swept | L |
Francis Thompson
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