Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB D EEFE A GGHG D IIBI A JJIJ CCKC LLMK D NNON PPQP RRSR| THE ONE | A |
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| The dead man's gone the live man's sad the dying leaf shakes on the tree | B |
| The wind constrains the window panes and moans like moaning of the sea | B |
| And sour's the taste now culled in haste of lovely things I won too late | C |
| And loud and loud above the crowd the Voice of One more strong than we | B |
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| THE OTHER | D |
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| This Voice you hear this call you fear is it unprophesied or new | E |
| Were you so insolent to think its rope would never circle you | E |
| Did you then beastlike live and walk with ears and eyes that would not turn | F |
| Who bade you hope your service 'scape in that eternal retinue | E |
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| THE ONE | A |
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| No for I swear now bare's the tree and loud the moaning of the wind | G |
| I walked no rut with eyelids shut my ears and eyes were never blind | G |
| Only my eager thoughts I bent on many things that I desired | H |
| To make my greedy heart content ere flesh and blood I left behind | G |
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| THE OTHER | D |
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| Ignorance then was all your fault and film d eyes that could not know | I |
| That half discerned and never learned the temporal way that men must go | I |
| You set the image of the world high for your heart's idolatry | B |
| Though with your lips you called the world a toy a ghost a passing show | I |
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| THE ONE | A |
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| No no this is not true my lips spoke only what my heart believed | J |
| Called I the world a toy I spoke not echo like or self deceived | J |
| But that I thought the toy was mine to play with and the passing show | I |
| Would sate at least my passing lusts and did not therefore am I grieved | J |
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| What did I do that I must bear this lifelong tyranny of my fate | C |
| That I must writhe in bonds unsought of accidental love and hate | C |
| Had chance but joined different dice but once or twice but once or twice | K |
| All lovely things that I desired I should have held before too late | C |
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| Surely I knew that flesh was grass nor valued overmuch the prize | L |
| But all the powers of chance conspired to cheat a man both just and wise | L |
| Happy I'd been had I but had my due reward and not a sword | M |
| Flaming in diabolic hand between me and my Paradise | K |
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| THE OTHER | D |
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| No hooded band of fates did stand your heart's ambitions to gainsay | N |
| No flaming brand in evil hand was ever thrust across your way | N |
| Only the things all men must meet the common attributes of men | O |
| That men may flinch to see or seeing deny but avoid them no man may | N |
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| Fall the dice not once or twice but always to make the self same sum | P |
| Chance what may a life's a life and to a single goal must come | P |
| Though a man search far and wide never is hunger satisfied | Q |
| Nature brings her natural fetters man is meshed and the wise are dumb | P |
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| O vain all art to assuage a heart with accents of a mortal tongue | R |
| All earthly words are incomplete and only sweet are the songs unsung | R |
| Never yet was cause for regret yet regret must afflict us all | S |
| Better it were to grasp the world 'thwart which this world is a curtain flung | R |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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