Self-dependence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDBD EFF GHCH IBIB AJAJ JBA KLB| Weary of myself and sick of asking | A |
| What I am and what I ought to be | B |
| At this vessel's prow I stand which bears me | B |
| Forwards forwards o'er the starlit sea | B |
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| And a look of passionate desire | C |
| O'er the sea and to the stars I send | D |
| 'Ye who from my childhood up have calm'd me | B |
| Calm me ah compose me to the end | D |
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| 'Ah once more ' I cried 'ye stars ye waters | E |
| On my heart your mighty charm renew | F |
| Still still let me as I gaze upon you | F |
| Feel my soul becoming vast like you ' | - |
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| From the intense clear star sown vault of heaven | G |
| Over the lit sea's unquiet way | H |
| In the rustling night air came the answer | C |
| 'Wouldst thou be as these are Live as they | H |
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| 'Unaffrighted by the silence round them | I |
| Undistracted by the sights they see | B |
| These demand not that the things without them | I |
| Yield them love amusement sympathy | B |
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| 'And with joy the stars perform their shining | A |
| And the sea its long moon silver'd roll | J |
| For self poised they live nor pine with noting | A |
| All the fever of some differing soul | J |
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| 'Bounded by themselves and unregardful | J |
| In what state God's other works may be | B |
| In their own tasks all their powers pouring | A |
| These attain the mighty life you see ' | - |
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| O air born voice long since severely clear | K |
| A cry like thine in mine own heart I hear | L |
| 'Resolve to be thyself and know that he | B |
| Who finds himself loses his misery ' | - |
Matthew Arnold
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