Self-dependence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDBD EFF GHCH IBIB AJAJ JBA KLBWeary 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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