Numpholeptos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Still you stand still you listen still you smileA
Still melts your moonbeam through me white awhileA
Softening sweetening till sweet and softB
Increase so round this heart of mine that oftC
I could believe your moonbeam smile has pastD
The pallid limit lies transformed at lastD
To sunlight and salvation warms the soulE
It sweets softens Would you pass that goalE
Gain love's birth at the limit's happier vergeF
And where an iridescence lurks but urgeF
The hesitating pallor on to primeG
Of dawn true blood streaked sun warmth action timeG
By heart pulse ripened to a ruddy glowH
Of gold above my clay I scarce should knowH
From gold's self thus suffused For gold means loveI
What means the sad slow silver smile aboveI
My clay but pity pardon at the bestJ
But acquiescence that I take my restJ
Contented to be clay while in your heavenK
The sun reserves love for the Spirit SevenK
Companioning God's throne they lamp beforeL
Leaves earth a mute waste only wandered o'erM
By that pale soft sweet disempassioned moonN
Which smiles me slow forgiveness Such the boonN
I beg Nay dear submit to this just thisO
Supreme endeavor As my lips now kissO
Your feet my arms convulse your shrouding robeP
My eyes acquainted with the dust dare probeP
Your eyes above for what if born would blindQ
Mine with redundant bliss as flash may findQ
The inert nerve sting awake the palsied limbR
Bid with life's ecstasy sense overbrimR
And suck back death in the resurging joyS
Love the love whole and sole without alloyS
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Vainly The promise withers I employS
Lips arms eyes pray the prayer which finds the wordT
Make the appeal which must be felt not heardT
And none the more is changed your calm regardU
Rather its sweet and soft grow harsh and hardU
Forbearance then repulsion then disdainV
Avert the rest I rise see make againW
Once more the old departure for some trackX
Untried yet through a world which brings me backX
Ever thus fruitlessly to find your feetY
To fix your eyes to pray the soft and sweetY
Which smile there take from his new pilgrimageZ
Your outcast once your inmate and assuageA2
With love not placid pardon now his thirstB2
For a mere drop from out the ocean erstB2
He drank at Well the quest shall be renewedB2
Fear nothing Though I linger unembuedB2
With any drop my lips thus close I goH
So did I leave you I have found you soH
And doubtlessly if fated to returnC2
So shall my pleading persevere and earnC2
Pardon not love in that same smile I learnC2
And lose the meaning of to learn once moreL
VainlyD2
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What fairy track do I exploreL
What magic hall return to like the gemR
Centuply angled o'er a diademR
You dwell there hearted from your mid most homeR
Rays forth through that fantastic world I roamR
Ever from centre to circumferenceE2
Shaft upon colored shaft this crimsons thenceF2
That purples out its precinct through that wasteB2
Surely I had your sanction when I facedB2
Fared forth upon that untried yellow rayG2
Whence I retrack my steps They end to dayG2
Where they began before your feet beneathH2
Your eyes your smile the blade is shut in sheathH2
Fire quenched in flint irradiation lateB2
Triumphant through the distance finds it fateB2
Merged in your blank pure soul alike the sourceI2
And tomb of that prismatic glow divorceI2
Absolute all conclusive Forth I faredB2
Treading the lambent flamelet little caredB2
If now its flickering took the topaz tintB2
If now my dull caked path gave sulphury hintB2
Of subterranean rage no stay nor stintB2
To yellow since you sanctioned that I batheJ2
Burnish me soul and body swim and swatheK2
In yellow license Here I seek suffusedB2
With crocus saffron orange as I usedB2
With scarlet purple every dye o' the bowL2
Born of the storm cloud As before you showH
Scarce recognition no approval someR
Mistrust more wonder at a man becomeR
Monstrous in garb nay flesh disguised as wellM2
Through his adventure Whatsoe'er befellM2
I followed wheresoe'er it wound that veinV
You authorized should leave your whiteness stainV
Earth's sombre stretch beyond your mid most placeN2
Of vantage trode that tinct whereof the traceN2
On garb and flesh repel you Yes I pleadB2
Your own permission your command indeedB2
That who would worthily retain the loveI
Must share the knowledge shrined those eyes aboveI
Go boldly on adventure break through boundsO2
O' the quintessential whiteness that surroundsO2
Your feet obtain experience of each tingeP2
That bickers forth to broaden out impingeP2
Plainer his foot its pathway all distinctB2
From every other Ah the wonder linkedB2
With fear as exploration manifestsQ2
What agency it was first tipped the crestsQ2
Of unnamed wildflower soon protruding grewR2
Portentous 'mid the sands as when his hueR2
Betrays him and the burrowing snake gleams throughR2
Till last but why parade more shame and painV
Are not the proofs upon me Here againW
I pass into your presence I receiveS2
Your smile of pity pardon and I leaveS2
No not this last of times I leave you muteB2
Submitted to my penance so my footB2
May yet again adventure tread from sourceI2
To issue one more ray of rays which courseI2
Each other at your bidding from the sphereT2
Silver and sweet their birthplace down that drearT2
Dark of the world you promise shall returnC2
Your pilgrim jewelled as with drops o' the urnC2
The rainbow paints from and no smatch at allU2
Of ghastliness at edge of some cloud pallV2
Heaven cowers before as earth awaits the fallU2
O' the bolt and flash of doom Who trusts your wordB2
Tries the adventure and returns absurdB2
As frightful in that sulphur steeped disguiseW2
Mocking the priestly cloth of gold sole prizeW2
The arch heretic was wont to bear awayG2
Until he reached the burning No I sayG2
No fresh adventure No more seeking loveI
At end of toil and finding calm aboveI
My passion the old statuesque regardB2
The sad petrific smileA
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O you less hardB2
And hateful than mistaken and obtuseX2
Unreason of a she intelligenceE2
You very woman with the pert pretenceE2
To match the male achievement Like enoughY2
Ay you were easy victors did the roughY2
Straightway efface itself to smooth the gruffY2
Grind down and grow a whisper did man's truthZ2
Subdue for sake of chivalry and ruthZ2
Its rapier edge to suit the bulrush spearT2
Womanly falsehood fights with O that earT2
All fact pricks rudely that thrice superfineC2
Feminity of sense with right divineC2
To waive all process take result stain freeT2
From out the very muck whereinC2
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Ah meT2
The true slave's querulous outbreak All the restB2
Be resignation Forth at your behestB2
I fare Who knows but this the crimson questB2
May deepen to a sunrise not decayG2
To that cold sad sweet smile which I obeyG2

Robert Browning



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