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Ode: In A Restaurant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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In this dense hall of green and gold	A
Mirrors and lights and steam there sit	B
Two hundred munching men	C
While several score of others flit	B
Like scurrying beetles over a fen	C
With plates in fanlike spread or fold	A
Napkins or jerk the corks from bottles	D
Ministers to greedy throttles	D
Some make noises while they eat	E
Pick their teeth or shuffle their feet	E
Wipe their noses 'neath eyes that range	F
Or frown whilst waiting for their change	F
Gobble gobble toil and trouble	G
Soul this life is very strange	F
And circumstances very foul	H
Attend the belly's stormy howl	H
How horrible this noise this air how thick	I
It is disgusting I feel sick	I
Loosely I prod the table with a fork	J
My mind gapes dizzies ceases to work	K
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The weak unsatisfied strain	L
Of a band in another room	M
Through this dull complex din	N
Comes winding thin and sharp	O
The gnat like mourning of the violin	N
The faint stings of the harp	O
The sounds pierce in and die again	C
Like keen drawn threads of ink dropped into a glass	P
Of water which curl and relax and soften and pass	P
Briefly the music hovers in unstable poise	Q
Then melts away drowned in the heavy sea of noise	Q
And I I am now emasculate	B
All my forces dissipate	R
Conquered by matter utterly	S
Moving not willing not I lie	T
Like a man whom timbers pin	N
When the roof of a mine falls in	N
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Halt as a cloud condenses	Q
I press my mind recover	U
Dominion of my senses	Q
With newly flowing blood	V
I lift and now float over	U
The restaurant's expanses	Q
Like a draggled sea gull over dreary flats of mud	V
An effort ah I urge and push	W
And now with greater strength I flush	X
The hall is full of my pinions' rush	X
No drooping now the place is mine	Y
Beating the walls with shattering wings	Q
Over the herd my spirit swings	Q
In triumph shouts Aha you swine	Y
Grovel before your lord divine	Y
I only I am real here	Z
Through the uncertain firmament	V
Still bestial in their dull content	V
The despicable phantoms leer	Z
Hogs even now in my right hand	V
I hold at my will the thunderbolts	Q
Measured not in mortal volts	Q
Would crash you to annihilation	A2
Lit with a new illumination	A2
What need I of ears and eyes	Q
Of flesh Imperious I will rise	Q
Dominate you as a god	V
Who only does not trouble to wield the rod	V
Of death or kick your weak spheroid	V
Like a football through the void	V
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Ha was it but a dream	B2
And did it merely seem	B2
Ha not yet free of your cage	C2
Soul spite of all your rage	C2
Come now this foe engage	C2
With explosion of your might	V
Oh heave oh leap and flash up soul	D2
Like a stabbing scream in the night	V
Hurl aside this useless bowl	D2
Of a body	V
But there comes a shock	E2
A soft tremendous shock	E2
Of contact with the body I lose all power	Z
And fall back back like a solitary rower	Z
Whose prow that debonair the waves did ride	V
Is suddenly hurled back by an iron tide	V
O sadness sadness feel the returning pain	L
Of touch with unescapable mortal things again	C
The cloth is linen the floor is wood	V
My plate holds cheese my tumbler toddy	V
I cannot get free of the body	V
And no man ever could	V
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Self do not lose your hold on life	F2
Nor coward seek to shrink the strife	F2
Of body and spirit even now	G2
Not for the first time even now	G2
Clear in your ears has rung the message	H2
That tense abstraction is the passage	H2
To nervelessness and living death	I2
Never forget while you draw breath	I2
That all the hammers of will can never	Z
Your chain d soul from matter sever	Z
And though it be confused and mixed	V
This is the world in which you're fixed	V
Never despise the things that are	Z
Set your teeth upon the grit	V
Though your heart like a motor beat	V
Hold fast this earthly star	Z
The whole of it the whole of it	V
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Look on this crowd now calm now look	J2
Remember now that each one drew	Z
Woman's milk which you partook	J2
And year by year in wonder grew	Z
Scorn not them nor scorn not their feasts	Q
Which you partake nor call them beasts	Q
These be children of one Power	Z
With you nor higher you nor lower	Z
They also hear the harp and fiddle	G
And sometimes quail before the riddle	G
They also have hot blood quick thought	V
And try to do the things they ought	V
They also have hearts that ache when stung	J2
And sigh for days when they were young	J2
And curse their wills because they falter	Z
And know that they will never alter	Z
See these men in a world of men	C
Material bodies yes what then	C
These coarse trunks that here you see	V
Judge them not lest judged you be	V
Bow not to the moment's curse	Q
Nor make four walls a universe	Q
Think of these bodies here assembled	V
Whence they have come where they have trembled	V
With the strange force that fills us all	K2
Men and beasts both great and small	K2
Here within this fleeting home	L2
Two hundred men have this day come	M2
Here collected for one day	V
Each shall go his separate way	V
Self you can imagine nought	V
Of all the battles they have fought	V
All the labours they have done	A2
All the journeys they have run	A2
O they have come from all the world	V
Borne by invisible currents swirled	V
Like leaves into this vortex here	Z
Flying or like the spirits drear	Z
Windborne and frail whom Dante saw	Q
Who yet obeyed some hidden law	Q
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Is it not miraculous	Q
That they should here be gathered thus	Q
All to be spread before your view	Z
Who are strange to them as they to you	Z
Soul how can you sustain without a sob	N2
The lightest thought of this titanic throb	N2
Of earthly life that swells and breaks	Q
Into leaping scattering waves of fire	Z
Into tameless tempests of effort and storms of desire	Z
That eternally makes	Q
The confused glittering armies of humankind	V
To their own heroism blind	V
Swarm over the earth to build to dig and to till	O2
To mould and compel land and sea to their will	O2
Whence we are here eating	J2
Standing here as on a high hill	O2
Strain my imagination strain forth to embrace	Q
The energies that labour for this place	Q
This place this instant Beyond your island's verge	P2
Listen and hear the roaring impulsive surge	P2
The clamour of voices the blasting of powder the clanging of steel	Q2
The thunder of hammers the rattle of oars	Q
For this one meal	Q2
Ten thousand Indian hamlets stored their yields	Q
Manchurian peasants sweltered in their fields	Q
And Greeks drove carts to Patras and lone men	C
Saw burning summer come and go again	C
And huddled from the winds of winter on	R2
The fertile deserts of Saskatchewan	S2
To fabricate these things have been marchings and slaughters	Q
The sun has toiled and the moon has moved the waters	Q
Cities have laboured and crowded plains and deep in the earth	T2
Men have plunged unafraid with ardour to wrench the worth	T2
Of sweating dim lit caverns and paths have been hewn	U2
Through forests where for uncounted years nor sun nor moon	U2
Have penetrated men have driven straight shining rails	Q
Through the dense bowels of mountains and climbed their frozen tops and wrinkled sailors have shouted at shouting gales	Q
In the huge Pacific and battled around the Horn	V2
And gasping coasted to Rio and turning towards the morn	V2
Fought over the wastes to Spain and battered and worn	V2
Sailed up the Channel and on into the Nore	Z
To the city of masts and the smoky familiar shore	Z
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So so of every substance you see around	V
Might a tale be unwound	V
Of perils passed of adventurous journeys made	V
In man's undying and stupendous crusade	V
This flower of man's energies Trade	V
Brought hither to hand and lip	W2
By waggon train or ship	W2
Each atom that we eat	V
Stare at the wine stare at the meat	V
The mutton which these platters fills	Q
Grazed upon a thousand hills	Q
This bread so square and white and dry	Z
Once was corn that sang to the sky	Z
And all these spruce obedient wines	Q
Flowed from the vatted fruit of vines	Q
That trailed a bright maternal host	V
The warm Mediterranean coast	V
Or spread their Bacchic mantle on	R2
That Iberian Helicon	R2
Where the slopes of Portugal	G
Crown the Atlantic's eastern wall	K2
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O mighty energy never failing flame	X2
O patient toils and journeys in the name	X2
Of Trade No journey ever was the same	X2
As another nor ever came again one task	J2
And each man's face is an ever changing mask	J2
From the minutest cell to the lordliest star	Z
All things are unique though all of their kindred are	Z
And though all things exist for ever all life is change	F
And the oldest passions come to each heart in a garment strange	F
Though life be as brief as a flower and the body but dust	V
Man walks the earth holding both body and spirit in trust	V
And the various glories of sense are spread for his delight	V
New pageants glow in the sunset new stars are born in the night	V
And clouds come every day and never a shape recurs	Q
And the grass grows every year yet never the same blade stirs	Q
Another spring and no delving man breaks again the self same clod	V
As he did last year though he stand once more where last year he trod	V
O wonderful procession fore ordained by God	V
Wonderful in unity wonderful in diversity	V
Contemplate it soul and see	V
How the material universe moves and strives with anguish and glee	V
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I was born for that reason	A2
With muscles heart and eyes	Q
To watch each following season	A2
To work and to be wise	Q
Not body and mind to tether	Z
To unseen things alone	Y2
But to traverse together	Z
The known and the unknown	Y2
My muscles were not welded	V
To waste away in sleep	Z2
My bones were never builded	V
To throw upon a heap	Z2
Man worships God in action	A2
Senses and reason call	K2
And thought is putrefaction	A2
If thought is all in all	K2
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Most of the guests are gone look over there	Z
Against a pillar leans with absent air	Z
A tall dark pallid waiter There he stands	Q
Limply with vacant eyes and listless hands	Q
He dreams of some small Tyrolean town	A2
A church a bridge a stream that rushes down	A2
A frustrate hankering man this one short time	A3
Unconscious he into my gaze did climb	A3
He sinks again again he is but one	A2
Of many myriads underneath the sun	A2
Now faint now vivid How puzzling is it all	K2
For now again in spite of all	K2
The lights the chairs the diners and the hall	K2
Lose their opacity	V
Fool exert your will	O2
Finish your whisky up and pay your bill	O2