Strict Joy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GAHI JKLMNO PQRSKT UVWXYZ KA2SB2C2O D2C2OE2F2F2 VG2H2I2ZKNJ2SK2L2K M2KN2O2O2OTo day i felt as poor O Brien did | A |
When turning from all else that was not his | B |
He took himself to that which was his own | C |
He took him to his verse for other all he had not | D |
And tho man will crave and seek | E |
Another all than this he did not need | F |
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So pen in hand he tried to tell the whole tale of his woe | G |
In rhyming lodge the full weight of his grief in versing and so did | A |
Then when his poem had been conned and cared | H |
And all put in that should not be left out did he not find and with astonishment | I |
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That grief had been translated or was come | J |
Other and better than it first looked to be | K |
And that this happened because all things transfer | L |
From what they seem to what they truly are | M |
When they are innocently brooded on | N |
And so The poet makes grief beautiful | O |
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Behold me now with my back to the wall | P |
Playing music to empty pockets | Q |
So Raferty tuning a blind mans plight | R |
Could sing the cark of misery away | S |
And know in blindness and in poverty | K |
That woe was not of him nor kind to him | T |
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And Egan Rahilly begins a verse | U |
My heart is broken and my mind is sad | V |
Twas surely true when he began his song | W |
And was less true when he had finished it | X |
Be sure his heart was buoyant and his grief | Y |
Drummed and trumpeted as grief was sung | Z |
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For as he meditated misery | K |
And cared it into song Strict Care Strict Joy | A2 |
Caring for grief he cared his grief away | S |
And those sad songs tho woe be all the theme | B2 |
Do not make us grieve who read them now | C2 |
Because the poet makes grief beautiful | O |
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And I myself conning a lonely heart | D2 |
Full lonely twas and tis as lonely now | C2 |
Turned me by proper to my natural | O |
And now too long her vagrant wooed my muse | E2 |
Then to her let us look more close to these | F2 |
And seeing know and knowing be at ease | F2 |
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Seeing the sky o ercast and that the rain had | V |
Plashed the window and would plash again | G2 |
Seeing the summer lost and the winter nigh | H2 |
Seeing inapt and sad and fallen from good | I2 |
Seeing how will was weak and wish o erbearing | Z |
Seeing inconstant seeing timidity | K |
Seeing too small too poor in this and yon | N |
Seeing life daily grow more difficult | J2 |
Seeing all that moves away moving away | S |
And that all seeing is a blind mans treat | K2 |
And that all getting is a beggars dole | L2 |
And that all having is bankruptcy | K |
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All these sad all I told to my good friend | M2 |
Told Raferty O Brien Rahilly | K |
Told rain and frosted blossom and the summer gone | N2 |
Told poets dead and captains dead and kings | O2 |
And we cared naught that these were mournful things | O2 |
For caring them we made them beautiful | O |
James Stephens
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