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 nightA
And the Summer comes with the shining noonsB
With the ripple of leaves and the passionate lightA
Of the falling suns and the rising moonsB
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And the ripple of leaves and the purple and redC
Die for the grapes and the gleam of the wheatD
And then you may pause with the splendours or treadC
On the yellow of Autumn with lingering feetD
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You may halt with the face to a flying seaE
Or stand like a gloom in the gloom of thingsF
When the moon drops down and the desolate leaE
Is troubled with thunder and desolate wingsF
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But alas for the grey of the wintering evesG
And the pondering storms and the ruin of rainsH
And alas for the Spring like a flame in the leavesG
And the green of the woods and the gold of the lanesH
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For seeing all pathos is mixed with our pastI
And knowing all sadness of storm and of surgeJ
Is salt with our tears for the faith that was castI
Away like a weed o er a bottomless vergeJ
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I am lost for these tokens and wearied of waysK
Wedded with ways that are waning amainL
Like those that are filled with the trouble that slaysK
Having drunk of their life to the lees that are painL
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And yet I would write to you I who have turnedM
Away with a bitter disguise in the eyesK
And bitten the lips that have trembled and burnedM
Alone for you darling and breaking with sighsK
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Because I have touched with my fingers a dressK
That was Beauty s because that the breath of thy mouthN
Is sweetness that lingers because of each tressK
Showered down on thy shoulders because of the drouthN
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That came in thy absence because of the lightsK
In the Passion that grew to a level with theeN
Is it well that our lives have been filled with the nightsK
And the days which have made it a sorrow to beN
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Yea thus having tasted all love with thy lipsK
And having the warmth of thy hand in mine ownL
Is it well that we wander like parallel shipsK
With the silence between us aloof and aloneL
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With my face to the wall shall I sleep and forgetO
The shadow the sweet sense of slumber deniesK
If even I marvel at kindness and fretO
And start while the tears are all wet in mine eyesK
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Oh darling of mine standing here with the PastI
Trampled under our feet in the bitterest waysK
Is this speech like a ghost that it keeps us aghastI
On the track of the thorns and in alien daysK
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When I know of you love how you break with our painL
And sob for the sorrow of sorrowful dreamsK
Like a stranger who stands in the wind and the rainL
And watches and wails by impassable streamsK
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Like a stranger who droops on a brink and deploresK
With famishing hands and frost in the feetD
For the laughter alive on the opposite shoresK
With the fervour of fire and the wind of the wheatD

Henry Kendall



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