Cui Bono? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MKMK KNKN KNKN KLKL OKOK IKIK LKLK KDKDA CLAMOUR by day and a whisper by night | A |
And the Summer comes with the shining noons | B |
With the ripple of leaves and the passionate light | A |
Of the falling suns and the rising moons | B |
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And the ripple of leaves and the purple and red | C |
Die for the grapes and the gleam of the wheat | D |
And then you may pause with the splendours or tread | C |
On the yellow of Autumn with lingering feet | D |
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You may halt with the face to a flying sea | E |
Or stand like a gloom in the gloom of things | F |
When the moon drops down and the desolate lea | E |
Is troubled with thunder and desolate wings | F |
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But alas for the grey of the wintering eves | G |
And the pondering storms and the ruin of rains | H |
And alas for the Spring like a flame in the leaves | G |
And the green of the woods and the gold of the lanes | H |
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For seeing all pathos is mixed with our past | I |
And knowing all sadness of storm and of surge | J |
Is salt with our tears for the faith that was cast | I |
Away like a weed o er a bottomless verge | J |
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I am lost for these tokens and wearied of ways | K |
Wedded with ways that are waning amain | L |
Like those that are filled with the trouble that slays | K |
Having drunk of their life to the lees that are pain | L |
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And yet I would write to you I who have turned | M |
Away with a bitter disguise in the eyes | K |
And bitten the lips that have trembled and burned | M |
Alone for you darling and breaking with sighs | K |
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Because I have touched with my fingers a dress | K |
That was Beauty s because that the breath of thy mouth | N |
Is sweetness that lingers because of each tress | K |
Showered down on thy shoulders because of the drouth | N |
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That came in thy absence because of the lights | K |
In the Passion that grew to a level with thee | N |
Is it well that our lives have been filled with the nights | K |
And the days which have made it a sorrow to be | N |
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Yea thus having tasted all love with thy lips | K |
And having the warmth of thy hand in mine own | L |
Is it well that we wander like parallel ships | K |
With the silence between us aloof and alone | L |
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With my face to the wall shall I sleep and forget | O |
The shadow the sweet sense of slumber denies | K |
If even I marvel at kindness and fret | O |
And start while the tears are all wet in mine eyes | K |
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Oh darling of mine standing here with the Past | I |
Trampled under our feet in the bitterest ways | K |
Is this speech like a ghost that it keeps us aghast | I |
On the track of the thorns and in alien days | K |
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When I know of you love how you break with our pain | L |
And sob for the sorrow of sorrowful dreams | K |
Like a stranger who stands in the wind and the rain | L |
And watches and wails by impassable streams | K |
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Like a stranger who droops on a brink and deplores | K |
With famishing hands and frost in the feet | D |
For the laughter alive on the opposite shores | K |
With the fervour of fire and the wind of the wheat | D |
Henry Kendall
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