Mooni Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBACDCA EBBBEFFFE AGGGACCCA HBBBHCCCH ICCCIJJJI CCCCCCCCC KLLLKGGGK CCCCCBBBC LMMMLCCCL CNNNCNNNC JBNBJGGGJ CGGGCBBBC CCCCCMMMCAH to be by Mooni now | A |
Where the great dark hills of wonder | B |
Scarred with storm and cleft asunder | B |
By the strong sword of the thunder | B |
Make a night on morning s brow | A |
Just to stand where Nature s face is | C |
Flushed with power in forest places | D |
Where of God authentic trace is | C |
Ah to be by Mooni now | A |
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Just to be by Mooni s springs | E |
There to stand the shining sharer | B |
Of that larger life and rarer | B |
Beauty caught from beauty fairer | B |
Than the human face of things | E |
Soul of mine from sin abhorrent | F |
Fain would hide by flashing current | F |
Like a sister of the torrent | F |
Far away by Mooni s springs | E |
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He that is by Mooni now | A |
Sees the water sapphires gleaming | G |
Where the River Spirit dreaming | G |
Sleeps by fall and fountain streaming | G |
Under lute of leaf and bough | A |
Hears where stamp of storm with stress is | C |
Psalms from unseen wildernesses | C |
Deep amongst far hill recesses | C |
He that is by Mooni now | A |
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Yea for him by Mooni s marge | H |
Sings the yellow haired September | B |
With the face the gods remember | B |
When the ridge is burnt to ember | B |
And the dumb sea chains the barge | H |
Where the mount like molten brass is | C |
Down beneath fern feathered passes | C |
Noonday dew in cool green grasses | C |
Gleams on him by Mooni s marge | H |
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Who that dwells by Mooni yet | I |
Feels in flowerful forest arches | C |
Smiting wings and breath that parches | C |
Where strong Summer s path of march is | C |
And the suns in thunder set | I |
Housed beneath the gracious kirtle | J |
Of the shadowy water myrtle | J |
Winds may hiss with heat and hurtle | J |
He is safe by Mooni yet | I |
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Days there were when he who sings | C |
Dumb so long through passion s losses | C |
Stood where Mooni s water crosses | C |
Shining tracts of green haired mosses | C |
Like a soul with radiant wings | C |
Then the psalm the wind rehearses | C |
Then the song the stream disperses | C |
Lent a beauty to his verses | C |
Who to night of Mooni sings | C |
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Ah the theme the sad grey theme | K |
Certain days are not above me | L |
Certain hearts have ceased to love me | L |
Certain fancies fail to move me | L |
Like the affluent morning dream | K |
Head whereon the white is stealing | G |
Heart whose hurts are past all healing | G |
Where is now the first pure feeling | G |
Ah the theme the sad grey theme | K |
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Sin and shame have left their trace | C |
He who mocks the mighty gracious | C |
Love of Christ with eyes audacious | C |
Hunting after fires fallacious | C |
Wears the issue in his face | C |
Soul that flouted gift and Giver | B |
Like the broken Persian river | B |
Thou hast lost thy strength for ever | B |
Sin and shame have left their trace | C |
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In the years that used to be | L |
When the large supreme occasion | M |
Brought the life of inspiration | M |
Like a god s transfiguration | M |
Was the shining change in me | L |
Then where Mooni s glory glances | C |
Clear diviner countenances | C |
Beamed on me like blessed chances | C |
In the years that used to be | L |
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Ah the beauty of old ways | C |
Then the man who so resembled | N |
Lords of light unstained unhumbled | N |
Touched the skirts of Christ nor trembled | N |
At the grand benignant gaze | C |
Now he shrinks before the splendid | N |
Face of Deity offended | N |
All the loveliness is ended | N |
All the beauty of old ways | C |
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Still to be by Mooni cool | J |
Where the water blossoms glister | B |
And by gleaming vale and vista | N |
Sits the English April s sister | B |
Soft and sweet and wonderful | J |
Just to rest beyond the burning | G |
Outer world its sneers and spurning | G |
Ah my heart my heart is yearning | G |
Still to be by Mooni cool | J |
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Now by Mooni s fair hill heads | C |
Lo the gold green lights are glowing | G |
Where because no wind is blowing | G |
Fancy hears the flowers growing | G |
In the herby watersheds | C |
Faint it is the sound of thunder | B |
From the torrents far thereunder | B |
Where the meeting mountains ponder | B |
Now by Mooni s fair hill heads | C |
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Just to be where Mooni is | C |
Even where the fierce fall races | C |
Down august unfathomed places | C |
Where of sun or moon no trace is | C |
And the streams of shadow hiss | C |
Have I not an ample reason | M |
So to long for sick of treason | M |
Something of the grand old season | M |
Just to be where Mooni is | C |
Henry Kendall
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