To A Gipsy Child By The Sea-shore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEFE GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP NQNQ RQRQ STSU HVHV WXWY ZA2ZA2 B2RC2R ND2ND2 E2DE2K VHVF2| Douglas Isle of Man | A |
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| Who taught this pleading to unpractis'd eyes | B |
| Who hid such import in an infant's gloom | C |
| Who lent thee child this meditative guise | B |
| What clouds thy forehead and fore dates thy doom | C |
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| Lo sails that gleam a moment and are gone | D |
| The swinging waters and the cluster'd pier | E |
| Not idly Earth and Ocean labour on | F |
| Nor idly do these sea birds hover near | E |
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| But thou whom superfluity of joy | G |
| Wafts not from thine own thoughts nor longings vain | H |
| Nor weariness the full fed soul's annoy | G |
| Remaining in thy hunger and thy pain | H |
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| Thou drugging pain by patience half averse | I |
| From thine own mother's breast that knows not thee | J |
| With eyes that sought thine eyes thou didst converse | I |
| And that soul searching vision fell on me | J |
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| Glooms that go deep as thine I have not known | K |
| Moods of fantastic sadness nothing worth | L |
| Thy sorrow and thy calmness are thine own | K |
| Glooms that enhance and glorify this earth | L |
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| What mood wears like complexion to thy woe | M |
| His who in mountain glens at noon of day | N |
| Sits rapt and hears the battle break below | M |
| Ah thine was not the shelter but the fray | N |
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| What exile's changing bitter thoughts with glad | O |
| What seraph's in some alien planet born | P |
| No exile's dream was ever half so sad | O |
| Nor any angel's sorrow so forlorn | P |
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| Is the calm thine of stoic souls who weigh | N |
| Life well and find it wanting nor deplore | Q |
| But in disdainful silence turn away | N |
| Stand mute self centred stern and dream no more | Q |
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| Or do I wait to hear some grey hair'd king | R |
| Unravel all his many colour'd lore | Q |
| Whose mind hath known all arts of governing | R |
| Mus'd much lov'd life a little loath'd it more | Q |
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| Down the pale cheek long lines of shadow slope | S |
| Which years and curious thought and suffering give | T |
| Thou hast foreknown the vanity of hope | S |
| Foreseen thy harvest yet proceed'st to live | U |
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| O meek anticipant of that sure pain | H |
| Whose sureness grey hair'd scholars hardly learn | V |
| What wonder shall time breed to swell thy strain | H |
| What heavens what earth what suns shalt thou discern | V |
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| Ere the long night whose stillness brooks no star | W |
| Match that funereal aspect with her pall | X |
| I think thou wilt have fathom'd life too far | W |
| Have known too much or else forgotten all | Y |
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| The Guide of our dark steps a triple veil | Z |
| Betwixt our senses and our sorrow keeps | A2 |
| Hath sown with cloudless passages the tale | Z |
| Of grief and eas'd us with a thousand sleeps | A2 |
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| Ah not the nectarous poppy lovers use | B2 |
| Not daily labour's dull Lethaean spring | R |
| Oblivion in lost angels can infuse | C2 |
| Of the soil'd glory and the trailing wing | R |
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| And though thou glean what strenuous gleaners may | N |
| In the throng'd fields where winning comes by strife | D2 |
| And though the just sun gild as all men pray | N |
| Some reaches of thy storm vext stream of life | D2 |
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| Though that blank sunshine blind thee though the cloud | E2 |
| That sever'd the world's march and thine is gone | D |
| Though ease dulls grace and Wisdom be too proud | E2 |
| To halve a lodging that was all her own | K |
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| Once ere the day decline thou shalt discern | V |
| Oh once ere night in thy success thy chain | H |
| Ere the long evening close thou shalt return | V |
| And wear this majesty of grief again | F2 |
Matthew Arnold
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