Strict Joy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GAHI JKLMNO PQRSKT UVWXYZ KA2SB2C2O D2C2OE2F2F2 VG2H2I2ZKNJ2SK2L2K M2KN2O2O2O

To day i felt as poor O Brien didA
When turning from all else that was not hisB
He took himself to that which was his ownC
He took him to his verse for other all he had notD
And tho man will crave and seekE
Another all than this he did not needF
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So pen in hand he tried to tell the whole tale of his woeG
In rhyming lodge the full weight of his grief in versing and so didA
Then when his poem had been conned and caredH
And all put in that should not be left out did he not find and with astonishmentI
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That grief had been translated or was comeJ
Other and better than it first looked to beK
And that this happened because all things transferL
From what they seem to what they truly areM
When they are innocently brooded onN
And so The poet makes grief beautifulO
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Behold me now with my back to the wallP
Playing music to empty pocketsQ
So Raferty tuning a blind mans plightR
Could sing the cark of misery awayS
And know in blindness and in povertyK
That woe was not of him nor kind to himT
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And Egan Rahilly begins a verseU
My heart is broken and my mind is sadV
Twas surely true when he began his songW
And was less true when he had finished itX
Be sure his heart was buoyant and his griefY
Drummed and trumpeted as grief was sungZ
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For as he meditated miseryK
And cared it into song Strict Care Strict JoyA2
Caring for grief he cared his grief awayS
And those sad songs tho woe be all the themeB2
Do not make us grieve who read them nowC2
Because the poet makes grief beautifulO
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And I myself conning a lonely heartD2
Full lonely twas and tis as lonely nowC2
Turned me by proper to my naturalO
And now too long her vagrant wooed my museE2
Then to her let us look more close to theseF2
And seeing know and knowing be at easeF2
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Seeing the sky o ercast and that the rain hadV
Plashed the window and would plash againG2
Seeing the summer lost and the winter nighH2
Seeing inapt and sad and fallen from goodI2
Seeing how will was weak and wish o erbearingZ
Seeing inconstant seeing timidityK
Seeing too small too poor in this and yonN
Seeing life daily grow more difficultJ2
Seeing all that moves away moving awayS
And that all seeing is a blind mans treatK2
And that all getting is a beggars doleL2
And that all having is bankruptcyK
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All these sad all I told to my good friendM2
Told Raferty O Brien RahillyK
Told rain and frosted blossom and the summer goneN2
Told poets dead and captains dead and kingsO2
And we cared naught that these were mournful thingsO2
For caring them we made them beautifulO

James Stephens



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