In Utrumque Paratus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCCC DCDECEC FGHIGIG JIJFIFI CCCFCFC IEICEC| If in the silent mind of One all pure | A |
| At first imagin'd lay | B |
| The sacred world and by procession sure | A |
| From those still deeps in form and colour drest | C |
| Seasons alternating and night and day | C |
| The long mus'd thought to north south east and west | C |
| Took then its all seen way | C |
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| O waking on a world which thus wise springs | D |
| Whether it needs thee count | C |
| Betwixt thy waking and the birth of things | D |
| Ages or hours O waking on Life's stream | E |
| By lonely pureness to the all pure Fount | C |
| Only by this thou canst the colour'd dream | E |
| Of Life remount | C |
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| Thin thin the pleasant human noises grow | F |
| And faint the city gleams | G |
| Rare the lone pastoral huts marvel not thou | H |
| The solemn peaks but to the stars are known | I |
| But to the stars and the cold lunar beams | G |
| Alone the sun arises and alone | I |
| Spring the great streams | G |
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| But if the wild unfather'd mass no birth | J |
| In divine seats hath known | I |
| In the blank echoing solitude if Earth | J |
| Rocking her obscure body to and fro | F |
| Ceases not from all time to heave and groan | I |
| Unfruitful oft and at her happiest throe | F |
| Forms what she forms alone | I |
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| O seeming sole to awake thy sun bath'd head | C |
| Piercing the solemn cloud | C |
| Round thy still dreaming brother world outspread | C |
| O man whom Earth thy long vext mother bare | F |
| Not without joy so radiant so endow'd | C |
| Such happy issue crown'd her painful care | F |
| Be not too proud | C |
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| O when most self exalted most alone | I |
| Chief dreamer own thy dream | E |
| Thy brother world stirs at thy feet unknown | I |
| Who hath a monarch's hath no brother's part | C |
| Yet doth thine inmost soul with yearning teem | E |
| O what a spasm shakes the dreamer's heart | C |
| 'I too but seem ' | - |
Matthew Arnold
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