Epilogue [english] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DEDE CFCF GCGC AGHGI JCJC KHLI CMCM CNON APQRQ MSMC TUVU WBWB CXCX YZYZ A2KA2K CCCC A2SA2S A2B2A2B2 C2D2C2D2

IA
The sun less hot looks from a sky more clearB
The roses in their sleepy lovelinessC
Nod to the cradling wind The atmosphereB
Enfolds us with a sister's tendernessC
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For once hath Nature left the splendid throneD
Of her indifference and through the mildE
Sun gilded air of Autumn clement grownD
Descends to man her proud revolted childE
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She takes to wipe the tears upon our faceC
Her azure mantle sown with many a starF
And her eternal soul her deathless graceC
Strengthen and calm the weak heart that we areF
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The waving of the boughs the lengthened lineG
Of the horizon full of dreamy huesC
And scattered songs all sing it sail or shineG
To day consoles delivers Let us museC
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IIA
So then this book is closed Dear Fancies mineG
That streaked my grey sky with your wings of lightH
And passing fanned my burning brow benignG
Return return to your blue InfiniteI
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Thou ringing Rhyme thou Verse that smooth didst glideJ
Ye throbbing Rhythms ye musical RefrainsC
And Memories and Dreams and ye besideJ
Fair Figures called to life with anxious painsC
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We needs must part Until the happier dayK
When Art our Lord his thralls shall re uniteH
Companions sweet Farewell and WellawayL
Fly home ye may to your blue InfiniteI
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And true it is we spared not breath or forceC
And our good pleasure like foaming steedM
Blind with the madness of his earliest courseC
Of rest within the quiet shade hath needM
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For always have we held thee PoesyC
To be our Goddess mighty and augustN
Our only passion Mother calling theeO
And holding Inspiration in mistrustN
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IIIA
Ah Inspiration splendid dominantP
Egeria with the lightsome eyes profoundQ
Sudden Erato Genius quick to grantR
Old picture Angel of the gilt backgroundQ
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Muse ay whose voice is powerful indeedM
Since in the first come brain it makes to growS
Thick as some dusty yellow roadside weedM
A gardenful of poems none did sowC
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Dove Holy Ghost Delirium Sacred FireT
Transporting Passion seasonable queenU
Gabriel and lute Latona's son and lyreV
Ah Inspiration summoned at sixteenU
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What we have need of we the Poets TrueW
That not believe in Gods and yet revereB
That have no halo hold no golden clueW
For whom no Beatrix leaves her radiant sphereB
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We that do chisel words like chalicesC
And moving verses shape with unmoved mindX
Whom wandering in groups by evening seasC
In musical converse ye scarce shall findX
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What we need is in midnight hours dim litY
Sleep daunted knowledge earned more knowledge stillZ
Is Faust's brow of the wood cuts sternly knitY
Is stubborn Perseverance and is WillZ
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Is Will eternal holy absoluteA2
That grasps as doth a noble bird of preyK
The steaming flanks of the foredoomed bruteA2
Its project and with it skyward awayK
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What we need we is fixedness intenseC
Unequalled effort strife that shall not ceaseC
Is night the bitter night of labor whenceC
Arises sun like slow the Master pieceC
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Let our Inspired hearts by an eye shot tinedA2
Sway with the birch tree to all winds that blowS
Poor things Art knows not the divided mindA2
Speak Milo's Venus is she stone or noS
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We therefore carve we with the chisel ThoughtA2
The pure block of the Beautiful and gainB2
From out the marble cold where it was notA2
Some starry chitoned statue without stainB2
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That one far day Posterity new MornC2
Enkindling with a golden rosy flameD2
Our Work new Memnon shall to ears unbornC2
Make quiver in the singing air our nameD2

Paul Verlaine



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