Boys Bathing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEEDFFGG HHCEECIGIGJGK LEMHEENOPEEQRSRHTHT CCUVOUEEWAMW CDDLGGGUGU XYYX| Round them a fierce wide crazy noon | A |
| Heaves with crushed lips and glowing sides | B |
| Against the huge and drowsy sun | C |
| Beneath them turn the glittering tides | B |
| Where dizzy waters reel with gold | D |
| And strange rich trophies sink and rise | E |
| From decks of sunken argosies | E |
| With shining arms they cleave the cold | D |
| Far reaches of the sea and beat | F |
| The hissing foam with flash of feet | F |
| Into bright fangs while breathlessly | G |
| Curls over them the amorous sea | G |
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| Naked they laugh and revel there | H |
| One shakes the sea drops from his hair | H |
| Then singing takes the bubbles one | C |
| Lies couched among the shells the sands | E |
| Telling gold hours between his hands | E |
| One floats like sea wrack in the sun | C |
| The gods of Youth the lords of Love | I |
| Greeks of eternal Thessaly | G |
| Mocking the powers they know not of | I |
| Naked and unembraced and free | G |
| To whom the Siren sings in vain | J |
| To day to morrow who shall be | G |
| The destined sport of gods and men | K |
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| Unseen the immortal ones are here | L |
| Remembering their mortal loves | E |
| The strange sweet flesh the lips that were | M |
| Frail and most perishably fair | H |
| Diana leaves her whispering groves | E |
| And of Actaeon dreams and sighs | E |
| And hears the hounds bay in the wood | N |
| Oh Cythera the trembling blood | O |
| Upon one petal's paling mouth | P |
| Before thee and this noon must rise | E |
| While thou remember Adon's eyes | E |
| One mournful and complaining shade | Q |
| Beyond Avernus shakes his head | R |
| Dreaming of one beloved youth | S |
| Borne from him lost and dazed and dead | R |
| Dragged by the nymphs avenging hair | H |
| Into the sea bed oozing dim | T |
| In that cold twilight unaware | H |
| Of each great sunrise over him | T |
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| One day while still these waters run | C |
| And noon still heaves beneath this sun | C |
| You shall creep unremembering | U |
| Whom Life has humbled and subdued | V |
| Ruined your bodies tamed your blood | O |
| No more the lords of anything | U |
| But spent and racked with mortal pains | E |
| The slow tide pushing through your veins | E |
| Coldly you face this magic shore | W |
| For you the dsenchanted noon | A |
| Scarce haunted is with ghosts that were | M |
| Once and were you and are no more | W |
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| Faltering against the wind and sun | C |
| That vainly seek your hair for gold | D |
| Stubborned with habit grey and old | D |
| You know not why you wander here | L |
| Nor what vague dream pursues you still | G |
| For Life ahs taken fullest toll | G |
| Of all your beauty on each soul | G |
| Love's hand has left his bitter mark | U |
| Has had of you his utmost will | G |
| And thrusts you headlong to the dark | U |
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| And colder than these waters are | X |
| The stream that takes your limbs at last | Y |
| Earth's vales and hills drift slowly past | Y |
| One shore far off and one more far | X |
Muriel Stuart
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