Foresight And Patience Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEEFFGG HHIIJJ KK LL MM NN OP QQRRSS QQTTCCUUVVWWXXCCYY ZZA2 Y Y B2B2C2C2D2D2AAE2E2 F2F2G2G2CCH2H2I2I2 J2J2HH K2K2L2L2 M2 N2N2 O2O2 P2P2Q2 R2 S2T2U2U2V2V2A2A2W2 W2X2X2X2X2Y2Y2Z2A3X2 X2X2X2AAB3B3C3C3D3D3 X2X2Y2Y2Y2Y2Y2Y2E3E3 F3F3Z2Z2X2Z2SSX2X2Y2 Y2Y2Y2X2X2G3G3X2X2X2 X2H3H3X2X2Z2Z2 Y2Y2X2X2I3J3X2X2 X2X2K3K3X2X2 X2X2 Y2Y2X2L3Sprung of the father blood the mother brain | A |
Are they who point our pathway and sustain | A |
They rarely meet one soars one walks retired | B |
When they do meet it is our earth inspired | C |
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To see Life's formless offspring and subdue | D |
Desire of times unripe we have these two | D |
Whose union is right reason join they hands | E |
The world shall know itself and where it stands | E |
What cowering angel and what upright beast | F |
Make man behold nor count the low the least | F |
Nor less the stars have round it than its flowers | G |
When these two meet a point of time is ours | G |
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As in a land of waterfalls that flow | H |
Smooth for the leap on their great voice below | H |
Some eddies near the brink borne swift along | I |
Will capture hearing with the liquid song | I |
So while the headlong world's imperious force | J |
Resounded under heard I these discourse | J |
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First words where down my woodland walk she led | K |
To her blind sister Patience Foresight said | K |
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Your faith in me appals to shake my own | L |
When still I find you in this mire alone | L |
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The few steps taken at a funeral pace | M |
By men had slain me but for those you trace | M |
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Look I once back a broken pinion I | N |
Black as the rebel angels rained from sky | N |
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Needs must you drink of me while here you live | O |
And make me rich in feeling I can give | P |
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A brave To be is dawn upon my brow | Q |
Yet must I read my sister for the How | Q |
My daisy better knows her God of beams | R |
Than doth an eagle that to mount him seems | R |
She hath the secret never fieriest reach | S |
Of wing shall master till men hear her teach | S |
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Liker the clod flaked by the driving plough | Q |
My semblance when I have you not as now | Q |
The quiet creatures who escape mishap | T |
Bear likeness to pure growths of the green sap | T |
A picture of the settled peace desired | C |
By cowards shunning strife or strivers tired | C |
I listen at their breasts is there no jar | U |
Of wrestlings and of stranglings dead they are | U |
And such a picture as the piercing mind | V |
Ranks beneath vegetation Not resigned | V |
Are my true pupils while the world is brute | W |
What edict of the stronger keeps me mute | W |
Stronger impels the motion of my heart | X |
I am not Resignation's counterpart | X |
If that I teach 'tis little the dry word | C |
Content but how to savour hope deferred | C |
We come of earth and rich of earth may be | Y |
Soon carrion if very earth are we | Y |
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The coursing veins the constant breath the use | Z |
Of sleep declare that strife allows short truce | Z |
Unless we clasp decay accept defeat | A2 |
And pass despised 'a cold for lack of heat ' | - |
Like other corpses but without death's plea | Y |
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My sister calls for battle is it she | Y |
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Rather a world of pressing men in arms | B2 |
Than stagnant where the sensual piper charms | B2 |
Each drowsy malady and coiling vice | C2 |
With dreams of ease whereof the soul pays price | C2 |
No home is here for peace while evil breeds | D2 |
While error governs none and must the seeds | D2 |
You sow you that for long have reaped disdain | A |
Lie barren at the doorway of the brain | A |
Let stout contention drive deep furrows blood | E2 |
Moisten and make new channels of its flood | E2 |
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My sober little maid when we meet first | F2 |
Drinks of me ever with an eager thirst | F2 |
So can I not of her till circumstance | G2 |
Drugs cravings Here we see how men advance | G2 |
A doubtful foot but circle if much stirred | C |
Like dead weeds on whipped waters Shout the word | C |
Prompting their hungers and they grandly march | H2 |
As to band music under Victory's arch | H2 |
Thus was it and thus is it save that then | I2 |
The beauty of frank animals had men | I2 |
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Observe them and down rearward for a term | J2 |
Gaze to the primal twistings of the worm | J2 |
Thence look this way across the fields that show | H |
Men's early form of speech for Yes and No | H |
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My sister a bruised infant's utterance had | K2 |
And issuing stronger to mankind 'twas mad | K2 |
I knew my home where I had choice to feel | L2 |
The toad beneath a harrow or a heel | L2 |
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Speak of this Age | M2 |
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When you it shall discern | N2 |
Bright as you are to me the Age will turn | N2 |
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For neither of us has it any care | O2 |
Its learning is through Science to despair | O2 |
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Despair lies down and grovels grapples not | P2 |
With evil casts the burden of its lot | P2 |
This Age climbs earth | Q2 |
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To challenge heaven | R2 |
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Not less | S2 |
The lower deeps It laughs at Happiness | T2 |
That know I though the echoes of it wail | U2 |
For one step upward on the crags you scale | U2 |
Brave is the Age wherein the word will rust | V2 |
Which means our soul asleep or body's lust | V2 |
Until from warmth of many breasts that beat | A2 |
A temperate common music sunlike heat | A2 |
The happiness not predatory sheds | W2 |
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But your fierce Yes and No of butting heads | W2 |
Now rages to outdo a horny Past | X2 |
Shades of a wild Destroyer on the vast | X2 |
Are thrown by every novel light upraised | X2 |
The world's whole round smokes ominously amazed | X2 |
And trembling as its pregnant Aetna swells | Y2 |
Combustibles on hot combustibles | Y2 |
Run piling for one spark to roll in fire | Z2 |
The mountain torrent of infernal ire | A3 |
And leave the track of devils where men built | X2 |
Perceptive of a doom the sinner's guilt | X2 |
Confesses in a cry for help shrill loud | X2 |
If drops the chillness of a passing cloud | X2 |
To conscience reason human love in vain | A |
None save they but the souls which them contain | A |
No extramural God the God within | B3 |
Alone gives aid to city charged with sin | B3 |
A world that for the spur of fool and knave | C3 |
Sweats in its laboratory what shall save | C3 |
But men who ply their wits in such a school | D3 |
Must pray the mercy of the knave and fool | D3 |
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Much have I studied hard Necessity | X2 |
To know her Wisdom's mother and that we | X2 |
May deem the harshness of her later cries | Y2 |
In labour a sure goad to prick the wise | Y2 |
If men among the warnings which convulse | Y2 |
Can gravely dread without the craven's pulse | Y2 |
Long ere the rising of this age of ours | Y2 |
The knave and fool were stamped as monstrous Powers | Y2 |
Of human lusts and lassitudes they spring | E3 |
And are as lasting as the parent thing | E3 |
Yet numbering locust hosts bent they to drill | F3 |
They might o'ermatch and have mankind at will | F3 |
Behold such army gathering ours the spur | Z2 |
No scattered foe to face but Lucifer | Z2 |
Not fool or knave is now the enemy | X2 |
O'ershadowing men 'tis Folly Knavery | Z2 |
A sea nor stays that sea the bastioned beach | S |
Now must the brother soul alive in each | S |
His traitorous individual devildom | X2 |
Hold subject lest the grand destruction come | X2 |
Dimly men see it menacing apace | Y2 |
To overthrow perchance uproot the race | Y2 |
Within without they are a field of tares | Y2 |
Fruitfuller for them when the contest squares | Y2 |
And wherefore warrior service they must yield | X2 |
Shines visible as life on either field | X2 |
That is my comfort following shock on shock | G3 |
Which sets faith quaking on their firmest rock | G3 |
Since with his weapons all the arms of Night | X2 |
Frail men have challenged Lucifer to fight | X2 |
Have matched in hostile ranks enrolled erect | X2 |
The human and Satanic intellect | X2 |
Determined for their uses to control | H3 |
What forces on the earth and under roll | H3 |
Their granite rock runs igneous now they stand | X2 |
Pledged to the heavens for safety of their land | X2 |
They cannot learn save grossly gross that are | Z2 |
Through fear they learn whose aid is good in war | Z2 |
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My sister as I read them in my glass | Y2 |
Their field of tares they take for pasture grass | Y2 |
How waken them that have not any bent | X2 |
Save browsing the concrete indifferent | X2 |
Friend Lucifer supplies them solid stuff | I3 |
They fear not for the race when full the trough | J3 |
They have much fear of giving up the ghost | X2 |
And these are of mankind the unnumbered host | X2 |
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If I could see with you and did not faint | X2 |
In beating wing the future I would paint | X2 |
Those massed indifferents will learn to quake | K3 |
Now meanwhile is another mass awake | K3 |
Once denser than the grunters of the sty | X2 |
If I could see with you Could I but fly | X2 |
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The length of days that you with them have housed | X2 |
An outcast else approves their cause espoused | X2 |
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O true they have a cause and woe for us | Y2 |
While still they have a cause too piteous | Y2 |
Yet happy for us when their cause defined | X2 |
They | L3 |
George Meredith
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