Pavlovna In London Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDECDE FGFGHIIHII FJFJFKGFKL FMFMFNEFNE CFOFJPQJPQ| I listened to the hunger hearted clown | A |
| Sadder than he I heard a woman sing | B |
| A tall dark woman in a scarlet gown | A |
| And saw those golden toys the jugglers fling | B |
| I found a tawdry room and there sat I | C |
| There angled for each murmur soft and strange | D |
| The pavement cries from darkness and below | E |
| I watched the drinkers laugh the lovers sigh | C |
| And thought how little all the world would change | D |
| If clowns were audience and we the Show | E |
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| What starry music are they playing now | F |
| What dancing in this dreary theatre | G |
| Who is she with the moon upon her brow | F |
| And who the fire foot god that follows her | G |
| Follows among those unbelieved in trees | H |
| Back shadowing in their parody of light | I |
| Across the little cardboard balustrade | I |
| And we like that poor Faun who pipes and flees | H |
| Adore their beauty hate it for too bright | I |
| And tremble half in rapture half afraid | I |
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| Play on O furtive and heartbroken Faun | F |
| What is your thin dull pipe for such as they | J |
| I know you blinded by the least white dawn | F |
| And dare you face their quick and quivering Day | J |
| Dare you like us weak but undaunted men | F |
| Reliant on some deathless spark in you | K |
| Turn your dull eyes to what the gods desire | G |
| Touch the light finger of your goddess then | F |
| After a second's flash of gold and blue | K |
| Drunken with that divinity expire | L |
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| O dance Diana dance Endymion | F |
| Till calm ancestral shadows lay their hands | M |
| Gently across mine eyes in days long gone | F |
| Have I not danced with gods in garden lands | M |
| I too a wild unsighted atom borne | F |
| Deep in the heart of some heroic boy | N |
| Span in the dance ten thousand years ago | E |
| And while his young eyes glittered in the morn | F |
| Something of me felt something of his joy | N |
| And longed to rule a body and to know | E |
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| Singer long dead and sweeter lipped than I | C |
| In whose proud line the soul dark phrases burn | F |
| Would you could praise their passionate symmetry | O |
| Who loved the colder shapes the Attic urn | F |
| But your far song my faint one what are they | J |
| And what their dance and faery thoughts and ours | P |
| Or night abloom with splendid stars and pale | Q |
| 'Tis an old story that sweet flowers decay | J |
| And dreams the noblest die as soon as flowers | P |
| And dancers all the world of them must fail | Q |
James Elroy Flecker
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