The Feaster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDECDEFFE GAGAHIJHIKDDK BLBLMJNM NOON PQPQORSORSTTS UOUOOVAOVAAAA WAW OXOOXOYY ZOZOOSA2OSA2OO NQNQ OOOOOAPPAB2B2OOAOOA NOQOOh who will hush that cry outside the doors | A |
While we are glad within | B |
Go forth go forth all you my servitors | A |
And gather close my kin | B |
Go out to her Tell her we keep a feast | C |
Lost Loveliness who will not sit her down | D |
Though we implore | E |
It is her silence binds me unreleased | C |
It is her silence that no flute can drown | D |
It is her moonlit silence at the door | E |
Wide as the whiteness but a fire on high | F |
That frights my heart with an immortal Cry | F |
Calling me evermore | E |
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Louder you viols louder O my harp | G |
Let me not hear her voice | A |
And drown her keener silence silver sharp | G |
With waves of golden noise | A |
For she is wise as Eden even mute | H |
To search my spirit through the deep and height | I |
Again again | J |
Outpierce her with your singing dawnlike flute | H |
And you gloom over viols of the night | I |
With colors lost in umber with sweet pain | K |
Of richest world's desire prevail sing down | D |
All memory with pleading so you drown | D |
Her merciless refrain | K |
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Oh can you not with music nor with din | B |
Save me the stress and stir | L |
In my lone spirit throned among my kin | B |
From that same voice of her | L |
The never ending query she hath had | M |
Only to wake my Soul and only then | J |
Wake it to weep | N |
With 'Why ' and 'Art thou happy Art thou glad | M |
And hast thou fellowship with fellow men ' | - |
So through my mirth and underneath my sleep | N |
Her voice abysmal hunger unfulfilled | O |
The calling calling never to be stilled | O |
Calling of deep to deep | N |
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But I have that shall fill this wound of mine | P |
Since Loveliness must be | Q |
Since Loveliness must save us or we pine | P |
And perish utterly | Q |
All that the years have left us undismayed | O |
Of age or death and happier fair than truth | R |
When truth is fair | S |
Shapes of immortal sweetness to persuade | O |
Iron and fire and marble to their youth | R |
Wild graces trapped from the three kingdoms' lair | S |
Of wildest Beauty shadow and smile and hush | T |
Fleet color of a daybreak of a blush | T |
For my sad soul to wear | S |
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Let April fade For me unfading bloom | U |
The little fruitless seed | O |
Deep sown of fire within the midmost gloom | U |
A sterner fire to feed | O |
The rainbow frozen in a lasting dew | O |
Green gazing emerald fresh as grass beneath | V |
The placid rose | A |
Fair pearl and you fair pearl and you and you | O |
Rained from the moon and kissing in a wreath | V |
As moment unto eager moment goes | A |
Look back at me you sapphires blue and wise | A |
With farthest twilight blue resplendent eyes | A |
That never weep nor close | A |
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O house me glories Give me house and home | W |
Here for my homelessness | A |
Set forth for me the wine the honeycomb | W |
Whereto desire saith 'Yes ' | - |
O Senses weave me from all lovely dust | O |
Some home array some fair familiar garb | X |
For me exiled | O |
Charm me some rare anointment I may trust | O |
Against her query searching like a barb | X |
The dumbness of a heart unreconciled | O |
Clothe me with silver fold me from dismay | Y |
Save me from pity For I hear her say | Y |
'Alas Alas poor child ' | - |
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'Alas Alas thou lost poor child how long | Z |
Why wilt thou suffer want | O |
Why must I hear thy weeping through thy song | Z |
And see thine eyes grow gaunt | O |
Making sad feast upon the crumbs of light | O |
Shed long ago from heavenly highways where | S |
Thy brethren are | A2 |
And thy heart smoulders in thee to be bright | O |
Thy one sole refuge from thy one despair | S |
Fraying the thwarted body with a scar | A2 |
How long before thine eyelids desolate | O |
How long shall this thy dark dominion wait | O |
For thee belated Star ' | - |
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Belov d if the Moon could weep | N |
Or if the Sun could see | Q |
How all these weltering alleys keep | N |
Their outcast treasury | Q |
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O bitter bitter sweet | O |
Beauty of babyhood | O |
Earth's wistful uttermost of good | O |
Flung out upon the street | O |
Fouled even as the highways would | O |
With mirk and mire and bruise | A |
The cheek more petal fine | P |
Than rose before a shrine | P |
Those hands like star fish in the ooze | A |
And fingers fain to cling | B2 |
To any stronger thing | B2 |
And smiles for one triumphal Gift | O |
Should one lean down and lift | O |
And tendril hair O in such wise | A |
With wild lights aureoled | O |
The morning glories twine and hold | O |
In some far paradise | A |
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Oh well and deep the foul ways keep | N |
Lost treasure hid from day | O |
Sun may not see but only we | Q |
Who look and look away | O |
Josephine Preston Peabody
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