Fulfilment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEEFGHIJKIKLJFMJ JNMJOPJOQNORSQSTRUUT UVWUXWUHappy are they whom men and women love | A |
And you were happy as a river that flows | B |
Down between lonely hills and knows | B |
The pang and virtue of that loneliness | C |
And moves unresting on until it move | D |
Under the trees that stoop at the low brink | E |
And deepen their cool shade and drink | E |
And sing and hush and sing again | F |
Breathing their music's many toned caress | G |
While the river with his high clear music speaks | H |
Sometimes of loneliness of hills obscure | I |
Sometimes of sunlight dancing on the plain | J |
Or of the night of stars unbared and deep | K |
Multiplied in his depths unbared and pure | I |
Sometimes of winds that from the unknown sea creep | K |
Sometimes of morning when most clear it breaks | L |
Spilling its brightness on his breast like rain | J |
And then flows on in loneliness again | F |
Towards the unknown near sea | M |
Was it in mere happiness or pain | J |
There were things said that spoke of naked pain | J |
With nothing between the wound and the sharp edged world | N |
Things seen that told of such perplexity | M |
As darkened night with night but was that pain | J |
And there were things created all delight | O |
Making delight fruitful a hundred fold | P |
Sweetness of earth energy of sun and rain | J |
Colour and shape flowers and grasses bright | O |
And the clear firm body of a bare lovely hill | Q |
And woods around its feet fast caught and curled | N |
And the cold sweets of lonely travelled night | O |
And was that happiness or something more | R |
That gathered happiness and pain like flowers | S |
Half perished and let them perish and brightened still | Q |
In those dark mental journeys of cold hours | S |
That found you what you were and left you stronger | T |
Shutting a door and opening a door | R |
O door that you have passed so quickly through | U |
Ere we well knew what man you were nor knew | U |
What you had shown in life but a little longer | T |
It was not pain nor happiness for you | U |
Not any named delight or pang of sense | V |
But swift fulfilment past all sense or thought | W |
Of what you were with all that time could make you | U |
No separate gift spiritual influence | X |
But something wrought | W |
From your own heart with all that life could make you | U |
John Freeman
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