The Habit Of Perfection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM KNKN| Elected Silence sing to me | A |
| And beat upon my whorl egrave d ear | B |
| Pipe me to pastures still and be | A |
| The music that I care to hear | B |
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| Shape nothing lips be lovely dumb | C |
| It is the shut the curfew sent | D |
| From there where all surrenders come | C |
| Which only makes you eloquent | E |
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| Be shell egrave d eyes with double dark | F |
| And find the uncreated light | G |
| This ruck and reel which you remark | F |
| Coils keeps and teases simple sight | G |
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| Palate the hutch of tasty lust | H |
| Desire not to be rinsed with wine | I |
| The can must be so sweet the crust | H |
| So fresh that come in fasts divine | I |
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| Nostrils your careless breath that spend | J |
| Upon the stir and keep of pride | K |
| What relish shall the censers send | J |
| Along the sanctuary side | K |
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| O feel of primrose hands O feet | L |
| That want the yield of plushy sward | M |
| But you shall walk the golden street | L |
| And you unhouse and house the Lord | M |
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| And Poverty be thou the bride | K |
| And now the marriage feast begun | N |
| And lily coloured clothes provide | K |
| Your spouse not laboured at nor spun | N |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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