My Two Geniuses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCDEFEFGF A HIIHHJJHKLMLLK A LGNLLEGLOPOPPO

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One is a slow and melancholy maidB
I know riot if she cometh from the skiesC
Or from the sleepy gulfs but she will riseC
Often before me in the twilight shadeB
Holding a bunch of poppies and a bladeB
Of springing wheat prostrate my body liesC
Before her on the turf the while she tiesC
A fillet of the weed about my headD
And in the gaps of sleep I seem to hearE
A gentle rustle like the stir of cornF
And words like odours thronging to my earE
Lie still beloved still until the mornF
Lie still with me upon this rolling sphereG
Still till the judgment thou art faint and wornF
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IIA
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The other meets me in the public throngH
Her hair streams backward from her loose attireI
She hath a trumpet and an eye of fireI
She points me downward steadily and longH
There is thy grave arise my son be strongH
Hands are upon thy crown awake aspireJ
To immortality heed not the lyreJ
Of the Enchantress nor her poppy songH
But in the stillness of the summer calmK
Tremble for what is Godlike in thy beingL
Listen a while and thou shall hear the psalmM
Of victory sung by creatures past thy seeingL
And from far battle fields there comes the neighingL
Of dreadful onset though the air is balmK
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IIIA
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Maid with the poppies must I let thee goL
Alas I may not thou art likewise dearG
I am but human and thou hast a tearN
When she hath nought but splendour and the glowL
Of a wild energy that mocks the flowL
Of the poor sympathies which keep us hereE
Lay past thy poppies and come twice as nearG
And I will teach thee and thou too shalt growL
And thou shalt walk with me in open dayO
Through the rough thoroughfares with quiet graceP
And the wild visaged maid shall lead the wayO
Timing her footsteps to a gentler paceP
As her great orbs turn ever on thy faceP
Drinking in draughts of loving help alwayO

George Macdonald



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