The Silent Pool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF AA GGHHIB JJKKLL MMNNOO PQPQ RSRT UVUV WXWX D VVYYTS D ZDZD A2B2A2B2B2| I have discovered finally to day | A |
| This home that I have called my own | B |
| Is built of straw and clay | A |
| Not as I thought of stone | B |
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| I wonder who the architect could be | C |
| What builder made it of that stuff | D |
| When it was left to me | C |
| The house seemed good enough | D |
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| Yet slowly as its roof began to sink | E |
| And as its walls began to split | F |
| And I began to think | E |
| Then I suspected it | F |
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| But did not clearly know until today | A |
| That it was only built of straw and clay | A |
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| II | - |
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| Now I will go about on my affairs | G |
| As though I had no cares | G |
| Nor ever think at all | H |
| How one day soon that house is bound to fall | H |
| So when I'm told the wind has blown it down | I |
| I may have something else to call my own | B |
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| I have enquired who was the architect | J |
| What builder did erect | J |
| I'm told they did design | K |
| Million and million others all like mine | K |
| And argument with all men ends the same | L |
| It is impossible to fix the blame | L |
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| I am so glad that underneath our talk | M |
| Our minds together walk | M |
| We argue all the while | N |
| But down below our argument we smile | N |
| We have our houses but we understand | O |
| That our real property is common land | O |
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| III | - |
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| At night we often go | P |
| With happy comrades to that real estate | Q |
| Where dreams in beauty grow | P |
| And every man enjoys a common fate | Q |
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| At night in sleep one flows | R |
| Below the surface of all argument | S |
| The brain with all it knows | R |
| Is covered by the waters of content | T |
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| But when the dawn appears | U |
| Brain rises to the surface with a start | V |
| And waking quickly sneers | U |
| At the old natural brightness of the heart | V |
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| Oh that a man might choose | W |
| To live unconsciously like beast or bird | X |
| And our clear thought not lose | W |
| Its beauty when we turn it into word | X |
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| IV | D |
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| Those quarrelings between my brain and heart | V |
| In which I'd take no part | V |
| Pursue their violent course | Y |
| Corrupting my most vital force | Y |
| So that my natural property is spent | T |
| In fees to keep alive their argument | S |
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| V | D |
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| Look downward in the silent pool | Z |
| The weeds cling to the ground they love | D |
| They live so quietly are so cool | Z |
| They do not need to think or move | D |
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| Look down in the unconscious mind | A2 |
| There everything is quiet too | B2 |
| And deep and cool and you will find | A2 |
| Calm growth and nothing hard to do | B2 |
| And nothing that need trouble you | B2 |
Harold Monro
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