He Heeded Not Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAB DEDEDE FGFGFG AHCHCH IJIJIK LMLMLM DNDNDN OPOPOP QKQJQK OROSOS THTHTH FUFVFV WXWXYX ZFA2FZFOf whispering trees the tongues to hear | A |
And sermons of the silent stone | B |
To read in brooks the print so clear | C |
Of motion shadowy light and tone | B |
That man hath neither eye nor ear | A |
Who careth not for human moan | B |
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Yea he who draws in shrinking haste | D |
From sin that passeth helpless by | E |
The weak antennae of whose taste | D |
From touch of alien grossness fly | E |
Shall banished to the outer waste | D |
Never in Nature's bosom lie | E |
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But he whose heart is full of grace | F |
To his own kindred all about | G |
Shall find in lowest human face | F |
Blasted with wrong and dull with doubt | G |
More than in Nature's holiest place | F |
Where mountains dwell and streams run out | G |
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Coarse cries of strife assailed my ear | A |
In suburb ways one summer morn | H |
A wretched alley I drew near | C |
Whence on the air the sounds were borne | H |
Growls breaking into curses clear | C |
And shrill retorts of keener scorn | H |
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Slow from its narrow entrance came | I |
His senses drowned with revels dire | J |
Scarce fit to answer to his name | I |
A man unconscious save of ire | J |
Fierce flashes of dull fitful flame | I |
Broke from the embers of his fire | K |
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He cast a glance of stupid hate | L |
Behind him every step he took | M |
Where followed him like following fate | L |
An aged crone with bloated look | M |
A something checked his listless gait | L |
She neared him rating till she shook | M |
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Why stood he still to be disgraced | D |
What hindered Lost in his employ | N |
His eager head high as his waist | D |
Half buttressed him a tiny boy | N |
An earnest child ill clothed pale faced | D |
Whose eyes held neither hope nor joy | N |
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Perhaps you think he pushed and pled | O |
For one poor coin to keep the peace | P |
With hunger or home would have led | O |
And given him up to sleep's release | P |
Well he might know the good of bed | O |
To make the drunken fever cease | P |
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Not so like unfledged hungry bird | Q |
He stood on tiptoe reaching higher | K |
But no expostulating word | Q |
Did in his anxious soul aspire | J |
With humbler care his heart was stirred | Q |
With humbler service to his sire | K |
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He sleepless pale and wrathful red | O |
Though forward leaning held his foot | R |
Lest on the darling he should tread | O |
A misty sense had taken root | S |
Somewhere in his bewildered head | O |
That round him kindness hovered mute | S |
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The words his simmering rage did spill | T |
Passed o'er the child like breeze o'er corn | H |
Safer than bee whose dodging skill | T |
And myriad eyes the hail shower scorn | H |
The boy absorbed in loving will | T |
Buttoned his father's waistcoat worn | H |
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Over his calm unconscious face | F |
No motion passed no change of mood | U |
Still as a pool in its own place | F |
Unsunned within a thick leaved wood | V |
It kept its quiet shadowy grace | F |
As round it all things had been good | V |
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Was the boy deaf the tender palm | W |
Of him that made him folded round | X |
The little head to keep it calm | W |
With a hitherto to every sound | X |
And so nor curse nor shout nor psalm | Y |
Could thrill the globe thus grandly bound | X |
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Or came in force the happy law | Z |
That customed things themselves erase | F |
Or was he too intent for awe | A2 |
Did love take all the thinking place | F |
I cannot tell I only saw | Z |
An earnest fearless hopeless face | F |
George Macdonald
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