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The Three Voices Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The First Voice	A
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He trilled a carol fresh and free	B
He laughed aloud for very glee	B
There came a breeze from off the sea	B
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It passed athwart the glooming flat	C
It fanned his forehead as he sat	C
It lightly bore away his hat	C
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All to the feet of one who stood	D
Like maid enchanted in a wood	D
Frowning as darkly as she could	D
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With huge umbrella lank and brown	E
Unerringly she pinned it down	E
Right through the centre of the crown	E
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Then with an aspect cold and grim	F
Regardless of its battered rim	F
She took it up and gave it him	F
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A while like one in dreams he stood	D
Then faltered forth his gratitude	G
In words just short of being rude	G
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For it had lost its shape and shine	H
And it had cost him four and nine	H
And he was going out to dine	H
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'To dine ' she sneered in acid tone	I
'To bend thy being to a bone	I
Clothed in a radiance not its own '	-
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The tear drop trickled to his chin	J
There was a meaning in her grin	J
That made him feel on fire within	J
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'Term it not 'radiance '' said he	B
''Tis solid nutriment to me	B
Dinner is Dinner Tea is Tea '	-
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And she 'Yea so Yet wherefore cease	K
Let thy scant knowledge find increase	K
Say 'Men are Men and Geese are Geese ''	-
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He moaned he knew not what to say	L
The thought 'That I could get away '	-
Strove with the thought 'But I must stay	L
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'To dine ' she shrieked in dragon wrath	M
'To swallow wines all foam and froth	N
To simper at a table cloth	N
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'Say can thy noble spirit stoop	O
To join the gormandising troup	O
Who find a solace in the soup	O
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'Canst thou desire or pie or puff	P
Thy well bred manners were enough	P
Without such gross material stuff '	-
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'Yet well bred men ' he faintly said	Q
'Are not willing to be fed	Q
Nor are they well without the bread '	-
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Her visage scorched him ere she spoke	R
'There are ' she said 'a kind of folk	R
Who have no horror of a joke	R
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'Such wretches live they take their share	S
Of common earth and common air	S
We come across them here and there	S
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'We grant them there is no escape	T
A sort of semi human shape	T
Suggestive of the man like Ape '	-
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'In all such theories ' said he	B
'One fixed exception there must be	B
That is the Present Company '	-
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Baffled she gave a wolfish bark	U
He aiming blindly in the dark	U
With random shaft had pierced the mark	U
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She felt that her defeat was plain	V
Yet madly strove with might and main	V
To get the upper hand again	W
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Fixing her eyes upon the beach	X
As though unconscious of his speech	X
She said 'Each gives to more than each '	-
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He could not answer yea or nay	L
He faltered 'Gifts may pass away '	-
Yet knew not what he meant to say	L
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'If that be so ' she straight replied	Y
'Each heart with each doth coincide	Y
What boots it For the world is wide '	-
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'The world is but a Thought ' said he	B
'The vast unfathomable sea	B
Is but a Notion unto me '	-
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And darkly fell her answer dread	Q
Upon his unresisting head	Q
Like half a hundredweight of lead	Q
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'The Good and Great must ever shun	Z
That reckless and abandoned one	Z
Who stoops to perpetrate a pun	Z
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'The man that smokes that reads the TIMES	A2
That goes to Christmas Pantomimes	A2
Is capable of ANY crimes '	-
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He felt it was his turn to speak	B2
And with a shamed and crimson cheek	B2
Moaned 'This is harder than Bezique '	-
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But when she asked him 'Wherefore so '	-
He felt his very whiskers glow	C2
And frankly owned 'I do not know '	-
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While like broad waves of golden grain	V
Or sunlit hues on cloistered pane	V
His colour came and went again	W
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Pitying his obvious distress	A2
Yet with a tinge of bitterness	A2
She said 'The More exceeds the Less '	-
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'A truth of such undoubted weight '	-
He urged 'and so extreme in date	D2
It were superfluous to state '	-
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Roused into sudden passion she	B
In tone of cold malignity	D2
'To others yea but not to thee '	-
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But when she saw him quail and quake	E2
And when he urged 'For pity's sake '	-
Once more in gentle tones she spake	E2
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'Thought in the mind doth still abide	D2
That is by Intellect supplied	D2
And within that Idea doth hide	D2
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'And he that yearns the truth to know	C2
Still further inwardly may go	C2
And find Idea from Notion flow	C2
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'And thus the chain that sages sought	D2
Is to a glorious circle wrought	D2
For Notion hath its source in Thought '	-
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So passed they on with even pace	A2
Yet gradually one might trace	A2
A shadow growing on his face	A2
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The Second Voice	A2
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THEY walked beside the wave worn beach	X
Her tongue was very apt to teach	X
And now and then he did beseech	X
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She would abate her dulcet tone	I
Because the talk was all her own	I
And he was dull as any drone	I
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She urged 'No cheese is made of chalk'	C2
And ceaseless flowed her dreary talk	C2
Tuned to the footfall of a walk	C2
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Her voice was very full and rich	F2
And when at length she asked him 'Which '	-
It mounted to its highest pitch	F2
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He a bewildered answer gave	G2
Drowned in the sullen moaning wave	G2
Lost in the echoes of the cave	G2
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He answered her he knew not what	D2
Like shaft from bow at random shot	D2
He spoke but she regarded not	D2
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She waited not for his reply	H2
But with a downward leaden eye	H2
Went on as if he were not by	H2
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Sound argument and grave defence	A2
Strange questions raised on 'Why ' and 'Whence '	-
And wildly tangled evidence	A2
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When he with racked and whirling brain	V
Feebly implored her to explain	V
She simply said it all again	W
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Wrenched with an agony intense	A2
He spake neglecting Sound and Sense	A2
And careless of all consequence	A2
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'Mind I believe is Essence Ent	D2
Abstract that is an Accident	D2
Which we that is to say I meant '	-
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When with quick breath and cheeks all flushed	D2
At length his speech was somewhat hushed	D2
She looked at him and he was crushed	D2
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It needed not her calm reply	H2
She fixed him with a stony eye	H2
And he could neither fight nor fly	H2
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While she dissected word by word	D2
His speech half guessed at and half heard	D2
As might a cat a little bird	D2
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Then having wholly overthrown	I
His views and stripped them to the bone	I
Proceeded to unfold her own	I
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'Shall Man be Man And shall he miss	A2
Of other thoughts no thought but this	A2
Harmonious dews of sober bliss	A2
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'What boots it Shall his fevered eye	H2
Through towering nothingness descry	S
The grisly phantom hurry by	H2
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'And hear dumb shrieks that fill the air	S
See mouths that gape and eyes that stare	S
And redden in the dusky glare	S
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'The meadows breathing amber light	D2
The darkness toppling from the height	D2
The feathery train of granite Night	D2
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'Shall he grown gray among his peers	A2
Through the thick curtain of his tears	A2
Catch glimpses of his earlier years	A2
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'And hear the sounds he knew of yore	S
Old shufflings on the sanded floor	S
Old knuckles tapping at the door	S
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'Yet still before him as he flies	A2
One pallid form shall ever rise	A2
And bodying forth in glassy eyes	A2
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'The vision of a vanished good	D2
Low peering through the tangled wood	D2
Shall freeze the current of his blood '	-
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Still from each fact with skill uncouth	I2
And savage rapture like a tooth	I2
She wrenched some slow reluctant truth	I2
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Till like a silent water mill	J2
When summer suns have dried the rill	J2
She reached a full stop and was still	J2
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Dead calm succeeded to the fuss	A2
As when the loaded omnibus	A2
Has reached the railway terminus	A2
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When for the tumult of the street	D2
Is heard the engine's stifled beat	D2
The velvet tread of porters' feet	D2
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With glance that ever sought the ground	D2
She moved her lips without a sound	D2
And every now and then she frowned	D2
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He gazed upon the sleeping sea	A2
And joyed in its tranquillity	D2
And in that silence dead but she	A2
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To muse a little space did seem	K2
Then like the echo of a dream	K2
Harked back upon her threadbare theme	K2
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Still an attentive ear he lent	D2
But could not fathom what she meant	D2
She was not deep nor eloquent	D2
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He marked the ripple on the sand	D2
The even swaying of her hand	D2
Was all that he	A2