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 C2D2C2D2I | A |
The sun less hot looks from a sky more clear | B |
The roses in their sleepy loveliness | C |
Nod to the cradling wind The atmosphere | B |
Enfolds us with a sister's tenderness | C |
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For once hath Nature left the splendid throne | D |
Of her indifference and through the mild | E |
Sun gilded air of Autumn clement grown | D |
Descends to man her proud revolted child | E |
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She takes to wipe the tears upon our face | C |
Her azure mantle sown with many a star | F |
And her eternal soul her deathless grace | C |
Strengthen and calm the weak heart that we are | F |
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The waving of the boughs the lengthened line | G |
Of the horizon full of dreamy hues | C |
And scattered songs all sing it sail or shine | G |
To day consoles delivers Let us muse | C |
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II | A |
So then this book is closed Dear Fancies mine | G |
That streaked my grey sky with your wings of light | H |
And passing fanned my burning brow benign | G |
Return return to your blue Infinite | I |
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Thou ringing Rhyme thou Verse that smooth didst glide | J |
Ye throbbing Rhythms ye musical Refrains | C |
And Memories and Dreams and ye beside | J |
Fair Figures called to life with anxious pains | C |
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We needs must part Until the happier day | K |
When Art our Lord his thralls shall re unite | H |
Companions sweet Farewell and Wellaway | L |
Fly home ye may to your blue Infinite | I |
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And true it is we spared not breath or force | C |
And our good pleasure like foaming steed | M |
Blind with the madness of his earliest course | C |
Of rest within the quiet shade hath need | M |
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For always have we held thee Poesy | C |
To be our Goddess mighty and august | N |
Our only passion Mother calling thee | O |
And holding Inspiration in mistrust | N |
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III | A |
Ah Inspiration splendid dominant | P |
Egeria with the lightsome eyes profound | Q |
Sudden Erato Genius quick to grant | R |
Old picture Angel of the gilt background | Q |
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Muse ay whose voice is powerful indeed | M |
Since in the first come brain it makes to grow | S |
Thick as some dusty yellow roadside weed | M |
A gardenful of poems none did sow | C |
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Dove Holy Ghost Delirium Sacred Fire | T |
Transporting Passion seasonable queen | U |
Gabriel and lute Latona's son and lyre | V |
Ah Inspiration summoned at sixteen | U |
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What we have need of we the Poets True | W |
That not believe in Gods and yet revere | B |
That have no halo hold no golden clue | W |
For whom no Beatrix leaves her radiant sphere | B |
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We that do chisel words like chalices | C |
And moving verses shape with unmoved mind | X |
Whom wandering in groups by evening seas | C |
In musical converse ye scarce shall find | X |
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What we need is in midnight hours dim lit | Y |
Sleep daunted knowledge earned more knowledge still | Z |
Is Faust's brow of the wood cuts sternly knit | Y |
Is stubborn Perseverance and is Will | Z |
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Is Will eternal holy absolute | A2 |
That grasps as doth a noble bird of prey | K |
The steaming flanks of the foredoomed brute | A2 |
Its project and with it skyward away | K |
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What we need we is fixedness intense | C |
Unequalled effort strife that shall not cease | C |
Is night the bitter night of labor whence | C |
Arises sun like slow the Master piece | C |
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Let our Inspired hearts by an eye shot tined | A2 |
Sway with the birch tree to all winds that blow | S |
Poor things Art knows not the divided mind | A2 |
Speak Milo's Venus is she stone or no | S |
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We therefore carve we with the chisel Thought | A2 |
The pure block of the Beautiful and gain | B2 |
From out the marble cold where it was not | A2 |
Some starry chitoned statue without stain | B2 |
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That one far day Posterity new Morn | C2 |
Enkindling with a golden rosy flame | D2 |
Our Work new Memnon shall to ears unborn | C2 |
Make quiver in the singing air our name | D2 |
Paul Verlaine
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