Cui Bono? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MKMK KNKN KNKN KLKL OKOK IKIK LKLK KDKD| A 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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