Marriage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAAGHIFFFFJKLLM ANOPJFQHARSFSNFTJUFF AVWXYJZFFA2LFFNXFB2X OFC2D2OE2F2NFG2FFFF2 FH2I2JJ2K2ZL2DFM2ADA N2LO2P2FQ2FAXR2DCS2T 2R2H2U2FFFZNFV2W2X2Y 2U2H2NNCZ2NA3B3C3D3E 3T2NAAF3FLG3FEC3FFFF DNNQ2H2FH3DFFFJI3ZXA AJRAJ3AFFH2K3AFL3M3Y 2AAF2FC3N3AH2O3D3H2D 3P3Q3RN3NNFR3S3JF2FN ZT3A2T3ATU3FFFFFFJIN V3DU3W3NH2D3LE3X3XM3 O3O3U3O3HO3O3FFFO3FF UB3H3UY3NUNANO3V3FO3 FZ3H2NO3A4F2O3NB4FNF NFAC4NAFFL C2NHFNLAO3FOO3AD4NNN A H2O3This institution | A |
perhaps one should say enterprise | B |
out of respect for which | C |
one says one need not change one's mind | D |
about a thing one has believed in | E |
requiring public promises | F |
of one's intention | A |
to fulfill a private obligation | A |
I wonder what Adam and Eve | G |
think of it by this time | H |
this firegilt steel | I |
alive with goldenness | F |
how bright it shows | F |
of circular traditions and impostures | F |
committing many spoils | F |
requiring all one's criminal ingenuity | J |
to avoid | K |
Psychology which explains everything | L |
explains nothing | L |
and we are still in doubt | M |
Eve beautiful woman | A |
I have seen her | N |
when she was so handsome | O |
she gave me a start | P |
able to write simultaneously | J |
in three languages | F |
English German and French | Q |
and talk in the meantime | H |
equally positive in demanding a commotion | A |
and in stipulating quiet | R |
I should like to be alone | S |
to which the visitor replies | F |
I should like to be alone | S |
why not be alone together | N |
Below the incandescent stars | F |
below the incandescent fruit | T |
the strange experience of beauty | J |
its existence is too much | U |
it tears one to pieces | F |
and each fresh wave of consciousness | F |
is poison | A |
See her see her in this common world | V |
the central flaw | W |
in that first crystal fine experiment | X |
this amalgamation which can never be more | Y |
than an interesting possibility | J |
describing it | Z |
as that strange paradise | F |
unlike flesh gold or stately buildings | F |
the choicest piece of my life | A2 |
the heart rising | L |
in its estate of peace | F |
as a boat rises | F |
with the rising of the water | N |
constrained in speaking of the serpent | X |
that shed snakeskin in the history of politeness | F |
not to be returned to again | B2 |
that invaluable accident | X |
exonerating Adam | O |
And he has beauty also | F |
it's distressing the O thou | C2 |
to whom from whom | D2 |
without whom nothing Adam | O |
something feline | E2 |
something colubrine how true | F2 |
a crouching mythological monster | N |
in that Persian miniature of emerald mines | F |
raw silk ivory white snow white | G2 |
oyster white and six others | F |
that paddock full of leopards and giraffes | F |
long lemonyellow bodies | F |
sown with trapezoids of blue | F2 |
Alive with words | F |
vibrating like a cymbal | H2 |
touched before it has been struck | I2 |
he has prophesied correctly | J |
the industrious waterfall | J2 |
the speedy stream | K2 |
which violently bears all before it | Z |
at one time silent as the air | L2 |
and now as powerful as the wind | D |
Treading chasms | F |
on the uncertain footing of a spear | M2 |
forgetting that there is in woman | A |
a quality of mind | D |
which is an instinctive manifestation | A |
is unsafe | N2 |
he goes on speaking | L |
in a formal customary strain | O2 |
of past states the present state | P2 |
seals promises | F |
the evil one suffered | Q2 |
the good one enjoys | F |
hell heaven | A |
everything convenient | X |
to promote one's joy | R2 |
There is in him a state of mind | D |
by force of which | C |
perceiving what it was not | S2 |
intended that he should | T2 |
he experiences a solemn joy | R2 |
in seeing that he has become an idol | H2 |
Plagued by the nightingale | U2 |
in the new leaves | F |
with its silence | F |
not its silence but its silences | F |
he says of it | Z |
It clothes me with a shirt of fire | N |
He dares not clap his hands | F |
to make it go on | V2 |
lest it should fly off | W2 |
if he does nothing it will sleep | X2 |
if he cries out it will not understand | Y2 |
Unnerved by the nightingale | U2 |
and dazzled by the apple | H2 |
impelled by the illusion of a fire | N |
effectual to extinguish fire | N |
compared with which | C |
the shining of the earth | Z2 |
is but deformity a fire | N |
as high as deep as bright as broad | A3 |
as long as life itself | B3 |
he stumbles over marriage | C3 |
a very trivial object indeed | D3 |
to have destroyed the attitude | E3 |
in which he stood | T2 |
the ease of the philosopher | N |
unfathered by a woman | A |
Unhelpful Hymen | A |
a kind of overgrown cupid | F3 |
reduced to insignificance | F |
by the mechanical advertising | L |
parading as involuntary comment | G3 |
by that experiment of Adam's | F |
with ways out but no way in | E |
the ritual of marriage | C3 |
augmenting all its lavishness | F |
its fiddle head ferns | F |
lotus flowers opuntias white dromedaries | F |
its hippopotamus | F |
nose and mouth combined | D |
in one magnificent hopper | N |
the crested screamer | N |
that huge bird almost a lizard | Q2 |
its snake and the potent apple | H2 |
He tells us | F |
that for love | H3 |
that will gaze an eagle blind | D |
that is like a Hercules | F |
climbing the trees | F |
in the garden of the Hesperides | F |
from forty five to seventy | J |
is the best age | I3 |
commending it | Z |
as a fine art as an experiment | X |
a duty or as merely recreation | A |
One must not call him ruffian | A |
nor friction a calamity | J |
the fight to be affectionate | R |
no truth can be fully known | A |
until it has been tried | J3 |
by the tooth of disputation | A |
The blue panther with black eyes | F |
the basalt panther with blue eyes | F |
entirely graceful | H2 |
one must give them the path | K3 |
the black obsidian Diana | A |
who darkeneth her countenance | F |
as a bear doth | L3 |
causing her husband to sigh | M3 |
the spiked hand | Y2 |
that has an affection for one | A |
and proves it to the bone | A |
impatient to assure you | F2 |
that impatience is the mark of independence | F |
not of bondage | C3 |
Married people often look that way | N3 |
seldom and cold up and down | A |
mixed and malarial | H2 |
with a good day and bad | O3 |
When do we feed | D3 |
We occidentals are so unemotional | H2 |
we quarrel as we feed | D3 |
one's self is quite lost | P3 |
the irony preserved | Q3 |
in the Ahasuerus t ecirc te agrave t ecirc te banquet | R |
with its good monster lead the way | N3 |
with little laughter | N |
and munificence of humor | N |
in that quixotic atmosphere of frankness | F |
in which Four o'clock does not exist | R3 |
but at five o'clock | S3 |
the ladies in their imperious humility | J |
are ready to receive you | F2 |
in which experience attests | F |
that men have power | N |
and sometimes one is made to feel it | Z |
He says what monarch would not blush | T3 |
to have a wife | A2 |
with hair like a shaving brush | T3 |
The fact of woman | A |
is not 'the sound of the flute | T |
but every poison ' | U3 |
She says 'Men are monopolists | F |
of stars garters buttons | F |
and other shining baubles' | F |
unfit to be the guardians | F |
of another person's happiness | F |
He says These mummies | F |
must be handled carefully | J |
'the crumbs from a lion's meal | I |
a couple of shins and the bit of an ear' | N |
turn to the letter M | V3 |
and you will find | D |
that 'a wife is a coffin ' | U3 |
that severe object | W3 |
with the pleasing geometry | N |
stipulating space and not people | H2 |
refusing to be buried | D3 |
and uniquely disappointing | L |
revengefully wrought in the attitude | E3 |
of an adoring child | X3 |
to a distinguished parent | X |
She says This butterfly | M3 |
this waterfly this nomad | O3 |
that has 'proposed | O3 |
to settle on my hand for life ' | U3 |
What can one do with it | O3 |
There must have been more time | H |
in Shakespeare's day | O3 |
to sit and watch a play | O3 |
You know so many artists are fools | F |
He says You know so many fools | F |
who are not artists | F |
The fact forgot | O3 |
that some have merely rights | F |
while some have obligations | F |
he loves himself so much | U |
he can permit himself | B3 |
no rival in that love | H3 |
She loves herself so much | U |
she cannot see herself enough | Y3 |
a statuette of ivory on ivory | N |
the logical last touch | U |
to an expansive splendor | N |
earned as wages for work done | A |
one is not rich but poor | N |
when one can always seem so right | O3 |
What can one do for them | V3 |
these savages | F |
condemned to disaffect | O3 |
all those who are not visionaries | F |
alert to undertake the silly task | Z3 |
of making people noble | H2 |
This model of petrine fidelity | N |
who leaves her peaceful husband | O3 |
only because she has seen enough of him | A4 |
that orator reminding you | F2 |
I am yours to command | O3 |
Everything to do with love is mystery | N |
it is more than a day's work | B4 |
to investigate this science | F |
One sees that it is rare | N |
that striking grasp of opposites | F |
opposed each to the other not to unity | N |
which in cycloid inclusiveness | F |
has dwarfed the demonstration | A |
of Columbus with the egg | C4 |
a triumph of simplicity | N |
that charitive Euroclydon | A |
of frightening disinterestedness | F |
which the world hates | F |
admitting | L |
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I am such a cow | C2 |
if I had a sorrow | N |
I should feel it a long time | H |
I am not one of those | F |
who have a great sorrow | N |
in the morning | L |
and a great joy at noon | A |
which says I have encountered it | O3 |
among those unpretentious | F |
proteg eacute s of wisdom | O |
where seeming to parade | O3 |
as the debater and the Roman | A |
the statesmanship | D4 |
of an archaic Daniel Webster | N |
persists to their simplicity of temper | N |
as the essence of the matter | N |
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'Liberty and union | A |
now and forever ' | - |
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the book on the writing table | H2 |
the hand in the breast pocket | O3 |
Marianne Moore
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