Marriage Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCECFGHIGJKKGGLMNJ MOCPCQRRSTSUUQGGHVIW WXGGXQYYQIHZA2GGB2A2 A C2FFD2E2CFFICA2A2HF2 G2G2F2MH2I2H2I2GGAJ2 GMAGJ2GGMK2L2G2M2CC A CCN2I2O2P2P2Q2Q2O2J2 J2R2S2S2P2T2P2T2UU2U 2J2V2V2GW2GW2N2QQGGX 2CY2CCX2H2NPZ2A3Z2HC C P E2B3E2GGJJCCPC3PC3SS C3C3D3IID3I | A |
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Come up dear chosen morning come | B |
Blessing the air with light | C |
And bid the sky repent of being dark | D |
Let all the spaces round the world be white | C |
And give the earth her green again | E |
Into new hours of beautiful delight | C |
Out of the shadow where she has lain | F |
Bring the earth awake for glee | G |
Shining with dews as fresh and clear | H |
As my beloved's voice upon the air | I |
For now O morning chosen of all days on thee | G |
A wondrous duty lies | J |
There was an evening that did loveliness foretell | K |
Thence upon thee O chosen morn it fell | K |
To fashion into perfect destiny | G |
The radiant prophecy | G |
For in an evening of young moon that went | L |
Filling the moist air with a rosy fire | M |
I and my beloved knew our love | N |
And knew that thou O morning wouldst arise | J |
To give us knowledge of achieved desire | M |
For standing stricken with astonishment | O |
Half terrified in the delight | C |
Even as the moon did into clear air move | P |
And made a golden light | C |
Lo there croucht up against it a dark hill | Q |
A monstrous back of earth a spine | R |
Of hunch d rock furred with great growth of pine | R |
Lay like a beast snout in its paws asleep | S |
Yet in its sleeping seemed it miserable | T |
As though strong fear must always keep | S |
Hold of its heart and drive its blood in dream | U |
Yea for to our new love did it not seem | U |
That dark and quiet length of hill | Q |
The sleeping grief of the world Out of it we | G |
Had like imaginations stept to be | G |
Beauty and golden wonder and for the lovely fear | H |
Of coming perfect joy had changed | V |
The terror that dreamt there | I |
And now the golden moon had turned | W |
To shining white white as our souls that burned | W |
With vision of our prophecy assured | X |
Suddenly white was the moon but she | G |
At once did on a woven modesty | G |
Of cloud and soon went in obscured | X |
And we were dark and vanisht that strange hill | Q |
But yet it was not long before | Y |
There opened in the sky a narrow door | Y |
Made with pearl lintel and pearl sill | Q |
And the earth's night seem'd pressing there | I |
All as a beggar on some festival would peer | H |
To gaze into a room of light beyond | Z |
The hidden silver splendour of the moon | A2 |
Yea and we also we | G |
Long gazed wistfully | G |
Towards thee O morning come at last | B2 |
And towards the light that thou wilt pour upon us soon | A2 |
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II | A |
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O soul who still art strange to sense | C2 |
Who often against beauty wouldst complain | F |
Doubting between joy and pain | F |
If like the startling touch of something keen | D2 |
Against thee it hath been | E2 |
To follow from an upland height | C |
The swift sun hunting rain | F |
Across the April meadows of a plain | F |
Until the fields would flash into the air | I |
Their joyous green like emeralds alight | C |
Or when in the blue of night's mid noon | A2 |
The burning naked moon | A2 |
Draws to a brink of cloudy weather near | H |
A breadth of snow firm and soft as a wing | F2 |
Stretcht out over a wind that gently goes | G2 |
Through the white sleep of snowy cloud there grows | G2 |
An azure border'd shining ring | F2 |
The gleaming dream of the approaching joy of her | M |
What now wilt thou do Soul What now | H2 |
If with such things as these troubled thou wert | I2 |
How wilt thou now endure or how | H2 |
Not now be strangely hurt | I2 |
When utter beauty must come closer to thee | G |
Than even anger or fear could be | G |
When thou like metal in a kiln must lie | A |
Seized by beauty's mightily able flame | J2 |
Enjoyed by beauty as by the ruthless glee | G |
Of an unescapable power | M |
Obeying beauty as air obeys a cry | A |
Yea one thing made of beauty and thee | G |
As steel and a white heat are made the same | J2 |
Ah but I know how this infirmity | G |
Will fail and be not no not memory | G |
When I begin the marvellous hour | M |
This only is my heart's strain'd eagerness | K2 |
Long waiting for its bliss | L2 |
But from those other fears from those | G2 |
That keep to Love so close | M2 |
From fears that are the shadow of delight | C |
Hide me O joys make them unknown to night | C |
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III | A |
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Thou bright God that in dream earnest to me last night | C |
Thou with the flesh made of a golden light | C |
Knew I not thee thee and thy heart | N2 |
Knew I not well God who thou wert | I2 |
Yea and my soul divinely understood | O2 |
The light that was beneath thee a ground | P2 |
The golden light that cover'd thee round | P2 |
Turning my sleep to a fiery morn | Q2 |
Was as a heavenly oath there sworn | Q2 |
Promising me an immortal good | O2 |
Well I knew thee God of Marriages thee and thy flame | J2 |
Ah but wherefore beside thee came | J2 |
That fearful sight of another mood | R2 |
Why in thy light to thy hand chained | S2 |
Towards me its bondage terribly strained | S2 |
Why came with thee that dreadful hound | P2 |
The wild hound Fear black ravenous and gaunt | T2 |
Why him with thee should thy dear light surround | P2 |
Why broughtest thou that beast to haunt | T2 |
The blissful footsteps of my golden dream | U |
All shadowy black the body dread | U2 |
All frenzied fire the head | U2 |
The hunger of its mouth a hollow crimson flame | J2 |
The hatred in its eyes a blaze | V2 |
Fierce and green stabbing the ruddy glaze | V2 |
And sharp white jetting fire the teeth snarl'd at me | G |
And white the dribbling rage of froth | W2 |
A throat that gaped to bay and paws working violently | G |
Yet soundless all as a winging moth | W2 |
Tugging towards me famishing for my heart | N2 |
Even while thou O golden god wert still | Q |
Looking the beautiful kindness of thy will | Q |
Into my soul even then must I be | G |
With thy bright promise looking at me | G |
Then bitterly of that hound afraid | X2 |
Darkness I know attendeth bright | C |
And light comes not but shadow comes | Y2 |
And heart must know if it know thy light | C |
Thy wild hound Fear the shadow of love's delight | C |
Yea is it thus Are we so made | X2 |
Of death and darkness that even thou | H2 |
O golden God of the joys of love | N |
Thy mind to us canst only prove | P |
The glorious devices of thy mind | Z2 |
By so revealing how thy journeying here | A3 |
Through this mortality doth closely bind | Z2 |
Thy brightness to the shadow of dreadful Fear | H |
Ah no it shall not be Thy joyous light | C |
Shall hide me from the hunger of fear to night | C |
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IV | P |
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For wonderfully to live I now begin | E2 |
So that the darkness which accompanies | B3 |
Our being here is fasten'd up within | E2 |
The power of light that holdeth me | G |
And from these shining chains to see | G |
My joy with bold misliking eyes | J |
The shrouded figure will not dare arise | J |
For henceforth from to night | C |
I am wholly gone into the bright | C |
Safety of the beauty of love | P |
Not only all my waking vigours plied | C3 |
Under the searching glory of love | P |
But knowing myself with love all satisfied | C3 |
Even when my life is hidden in sleep | S |
As high clouds to themselves that keep | S |
The moon's white company are all possest | C3 |
Silverly with the presence of their guest | C3 |
Or as a darken'd room | D3 |
That hath within it roses whence the air | I |
And quietness are taken everywhere | I |
Deliciously by sweet perfume | D3 |
Lascelles Abercrombie
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