Numpholeptos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LMNNOOPPQQRRSS STTUUVWXXYYZA2B2B2B2 B2HHC2C2C2LD2 LRRRRE2F2B2B2G2G2H2H 2B2B2I2I2B2B2B2B2B2J 2K2B2B2L2HRRM2M2VVN2 N2B2B2IIO2O2P2P2B2B2 Q2Q2R2R2R2VWS2S2B2B2 I2I2T2T2C2C2U2V2U2B2 B2W2W2G2G2IIB2A B2X2E2E2Y2Y2Y2Z2Z2T2 T2C2C2T2C2 T2B2B2B2G2G2Still you stand still you listen still you smile | A |
Still melts your moonbeam through me white awhile | A |
Softening sweetening till sweet and soft | B |
Increase so round this heart of mine that oft | C |
I could believe your moonbeam smile has past | D |
The pallid limit lies transformed at last | D |
To sunlight and salvation warms the soul | E |
It sweets softens Would you pass that goal | E |
Gain love's birth at the limit's happier verge | F |
And where an iridescence lurks but urge | F |
The hesitating pallor on to prime | G |
Of dawn true blood streaked sun warmth action time | G |
By heart pulse ripened to a ruddy glow | H |
Of gold above my clay I scarce should know | H |
From gold's self thus suffused For gold means love | I |
What means the sad slow silver smile above | I |
My clay but pity pardon at the best | J |
But acquiescence that I take my rest | J |
Contented to be clay while in your heaven | K |
The sun reserves love for the Spirit Seven | K |
Companioning God's throne they lamp before | L |
Leaves earth a mute waste only wandered o'er | M |
By that pale soft sweet disempassioned moon | N |
Which smiles me slow forgiveness Such the boon | N |
I beg Nay dear submit to this just this | O |
Supreme endeavor As my lips now kiss | O |
Your feet my arms convulse your shrouding robe | P |
My eyes acquainted with the dust dare probe | P |
Your eyes above for what if born would blind | Q |
Mine with redundant bliss as flash may find | Q |
The inert nerve sting awake the palsied limb | R |
Bid with life's ecstasy sense overbrim | R |
And suck back death in the resurging joy | S |
Love the love whole and sole without alloy | S |
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Vainly The promise withers I employ | S |
Lips arms eyes pray the prayer which finds the word | T |
Make the appeal which must be felt not heard | T |
And none the more is changed your calm regard | U |
Rather its sweet and soft grow harsh and hard | U |
Forbearance then repulsion then disdain | V |
Avert the rest I rise see make again | W |
Once more the old departure for some track | X |
Untried yet through a world which brings me back | X |
Ever thus fruitlessly to find your feet | Y |
To fix your eyes to pray the soft and sweet | Y |
Which smile there take from his new pilgrimage | Z |
Your outcast once your inmate and assuage | A2 |
With love not placid pardon now his thirst | B2 |
For a mere drop from out the ocean erst | B2 |
He drank at Well the quest shall be renewed | B2 |
Fear nothing Though I linger unembued | B2 |
With any drop my lips thus close I go | H |
So did I leave you I have found you so | H |
And doubtlessly if fated to return | C2 |
So shall my pleading persevere and earn | C2 |
Pardon not love in that same smile I learn | C2 |
And lose the meaning of to learn once more | L |
Vainly | D2 |
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What fairy track do I explore | L |
What magic hall return to like the gem | R |
Centuply angled o'er a diadem | R |
You dwell there hearted from your mid most home | R |
Rays forth through that fantastic world I roam | R |
Ever from centre to circumference | E2 |
Shaft upon colored shaft this crimsons thence | F2 |
That purples out its precinct through that waste | B2 |
Surely I had your sanction when I faced | B2 |
Fared forth upon that untried yellow ray | G2 |
Whence I retrack my steps They end to day | G2 |
Where they began before your feet beneath | H2 |
Your eyes your smile the blade is shut in sheath | H2 |
Fire quenched in flint irradiation late | B2 |
Triumphant through the distance finds it fate | B2 |
Merged in your blank pure soul alike the source | I2 |
And tomb of that prismatic glow divorce | I2 |
Absolute all conclusive Forth I fared | B2 |
Treading the lambent flamelet little cared | B2 |
If now its flickering took the topaz tint | B2 |
If now my dull caked path gave sulphury hint | B2 |
Of subterranean rage no stay nor stint | B2 |
To yellow since you sanctioned that I bathe | J2 |
Burnish me soul and body swim and swathe | K2 |
In yellow license Here I seek suffused | B2 |
With crocus saffron orange as I used | B2 |
With scarlet purple every dye o' the bow | L2 |
Born of the storm cloud As before you show | H |
Scarce recognition no approval some | R |
Mistrust more wonder at a man become | R |
Monstrous in garb nay flesh disguised as well | M2 |
Through his adventure Whatsoe'er befell | M2 |
I followed wheresoe'er it wound that vein | V |
You authorized should leave your whiteness stain | V |
Earth's sombre stretch beyond your mid most place | N2 |
Of vantage trode that tinct whereof the trace | N2 |
On garb and flesh repel you Yes I plead | B2 |
Your own permission your command indeed | B2 |
That who would worthily retain the love | I |
Must share the knowledge shrined those eyes above | I |
Go boldly on adventure break through bounds | O2 |
O' the quintessential whiteness that surrounds | O2 |
Your feet obtain experience of each tinge | P2 |
That bickers forth to broaden out impinge | P2 |
Plainer his foot its pathway all distinct | B2 |
From every other Ah the wonder linked | B2 |
With fear as exploration manifests | Q2 |
What agency it was first tipped the crests | Q2 |
Of unnamed wildflower soon protruding grew | R2 |
Portentous 'mid the sands as when his hue | R2 |
Betrays him and the burrowing snake gleams through | R2 |
Till last but why parade more shame and pain | V |
Are not the proofs upon me Here again | W |
I pass into your presence I receive | S2 |
Your smile of pity pardon and I leave | S2 |
No not this last of times I leave you mute | B2 |
Submitted to my penance so my foot | B2 |
May yet again adventure tread from source | I2 |
To issue one more ray of rays which course | I2 |
Each other at your bidding from the sphere | T2 |
Silver and sweet their birthplace down that drear | T2 |
Dark of the world you promise shall return | C2 |
Your pilgrim jewelled as with drops o' the urn | C2 |
The rainbow paints from and no smatch at all | U2 |
Of ghastliness at edge of some cloud pall | V2 |
Heaven cowers before as earth awaits the fall | U2 |
O' the bolt and flash of doom Who trusts your word | B2 |
Tries the adventure and returns absurd | B2 |
As frightful in that sulphur steeped disguise | W2 |
Mocking the priestly cloth of gold sole prize | W2 |
The arch heretic was wont to bear away | G2 |
Until he reached the burning No I say | G2 |
No fresh adventure No more seeking love | I |
At end of toil and finding calm above | I |
My passion the old statuesque regard | B2 |
The sad petrific smile | A |
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O you less hard | B2 |
And hateful than mistaken and obtuse | X2 |
Unreason of a she intelligence | E2 |
You very woman with the pert pretence | E2 |
To match the male achievement Like enough | Y2 |
Ay you were easy victors did the rough | Y2 |
Straightway efface itself to smooth the gruff | Y2 |
Grind down and grow a whisper did man's truth | Z2 |
Subdue for sake of chivalry and ruth | Z2 |
Its rapier edge to suit the bulrush spear | T2 |
Womanly falsehood fights with O that ear | T2 |
All fact pricks rudely that thrice superfine | C2 |
Feminity of sense with right divine | C2 |
To waive all process take result stain free | T2 |
From out the very muck wherein | C2 |
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Ah me | T2 |
The true slave's querulous outbreak All the rest | B2 |
Be resignation Forth at your behest | B2 |
I fare Who knows but this the crimson quest | B2 |
May deepen to a sunrise not decay | G2 |
To that cold sad sweet smile which I obey | G2 |
Robert Browning
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