Desire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABB CCDDEEBB FFFFGGCCFFHHCCBB HFFHIIIIB JKJKLLMMCC NNCOOPPPCCHIBBThou who dost dwell alone | A |
Thou who dost know thine own | A |
Thou to whom all are known | A |
From the cradle to the grave | B |
Save O save | B |
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From the world's temptations | C |
From tribulations | C |
From that fierce anguish | D |
Wherein we languish | D |
From that torpor deep | E |
Wherein we lie asleep | E |
Heavy as death cold as the grave | B |
Save O save | B |
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When the soul growing clearer | F |
Sees God no nearer | F |
When the soul mounting higher | F |
To God comes no nigher | F |
But the arch fiend Pride | G |
Mounts at her side | G |
Foiling her high emprize | C |
Sealing her eagle eyes | C |
And when she fain would soar | F |
Make idols to adore | F |
Changing the pure emotion | H |
Of her high devotion | H |
To a skin deep sense | C |
Of her own eloquence | C |
Strong to deceive strong to enslave | B |
Save O save | B |
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From the ingrained fashion | H |
Of this earthly nature | F |
That mars thy creature | F |
From grief that is but passion | H |
From mirth that is but feigning | I |
From tears that bring no healing | I |
From wild and weak complaining | I |
Thine old strength revealing | I |
Save O save | B |
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From doubt where all is doable | J |
Where wise men are not strong | K |
Where comfort turns to trouble | J |
Where just men suffer wrong | K |
Where sorrow treads on joy | L |
Where sweet things soonest cloy | L |
Where faiths are built on dust | M |
Where love is half mistrust | M |
Hungry and barren and sharp as the sea | C |
O set us free | C |
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O let the false dream fly | N |
Where our sick souls do lie | N |
Tossing continually | C |
O where thy voice doth come | O |
Let all doubts be dumb | O |
Let all words be mild | P |
All strife be reconciled | P |
All pains beguiled | P |
Light brings no blindness | C |
Love no unkindness | C |
Knowledge no ruin | H |
Fear no undoing | I |
From the cradle to the grave | B |
Save O save | B |
Matthew Arnold
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