Beauty Xxv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E F G H B H I J K L M N O P Q Q| And a poet said 'Speak to us of Beauty ' | A |
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| Where shall you seek beauty and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide | B |
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| And how shall you speak of her except she be the weaver of your speech | C |
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| The aggrieved and the injured say 'Beauty is kind and gentle | D |
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| Like a young mother half shy of her own glory she walks among us ' | - |
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| And the passionate say 'Nay beauty is a thing of might and dread | E |
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| Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us ' | - |
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| The tired and the weary say 'beauty is of soft whisperings She speaks in our spirit | F |
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| Her voice yields to our silences like a faint light that quivers in fear of the shadow ' | - |
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| But the restless say 'We have heard her shouting among the mountains | G |
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| And with her cries came the sound of hoofs and the beating of wings and the roaring of lions ' | - |
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| At night the watchmen of the city say 'Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east ' | - |
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| And at noontide the toilers and the wayfarers say 'we have seen her leaning over the earth from the windows of the sunset ' | - |
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| In winter say the snow bound 'She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills ' | - |
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| And in the summer heat the reapers say 'We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves and we saw a drift of snow in her hair ' | - |
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| All these things have you said of beauty | H |
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| Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied | B |
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| And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy | H |
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| It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth | I |
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| But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted | J |
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| It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear | K |
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| But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears | L |
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| It is not the sap within the furrowed bark nor a wing attached to a claw | M |
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| But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight | N |
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| People of Orphalese beauty is life when life unveils her holy face | O |
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| But you are life and you are the veil | P |
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| Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror | Q |
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| But you are eternity and you are the mirror | Q |
Khalil Gibran
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