Pippa Passes: Part Ii: Noon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Scene Over Orcana The house of Jules who crosses its threshold with Phene she is silent on which Jules begins	A
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Do not die Phene I am yours now you	B
Are mine now let fate reach me how she likes	C
If you'll not die so never die Sit here	D
My work room's single seat I over lean	E
This length of hair and lustrous front they turn	F
Like an entire flower upward eyes lips last	G
Your chin no last your throat turns 't is their scent	H
Pulls down my face upon you Nay look ever	I
This one way till I change grow you I could	J
Change into you beloved	K
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You by me	L
And I by you this is your hand in mine	M
And side by side we sit all's true Thank God	N
I have spoken speak you	B
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O my life to come	O
My Tydeus must be carved that's there in clay	P
Yet how be carved with you about the room	Q
Where must I place you When I think that once	R
This room full of rough block work seemed my heaven	S
Without you Shall I ever work again	T
Get fairly into my old ways again	T
Bid each conception stand while trait by trait	U
My hand transfers its lineaments to stone	V
Will my mere fancies live near you their truth	W
The live truth passing and repassing me	L
Sitting beside me	L
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Now speak	X
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Only first	Y
See all your letters Was't not well contrived	Z
Their hiding place is Psyche's robe she keeps	A2
Your letters next her skin which drops out foremost	B2
Ah this that swam down like a first moonbeam	C2
Into my world	D2
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Again those eyes complete	E2
Their melancholy survey sweet and slow	F2
Of all my room holds to return and rest	G2
On me with pity yet some wonder too	B
As if God bade some spirit plague a world	D2
And this were the one moment of surprise	H2
And sorrow while she took her station pausing	I2
O'er what she sees finds good and must destroy	J2
What gaze you at Those Books I told you of	K2
Let your first word to me rejoice them too	B
This minion a Coluthus writ in red	L2
Bistre and azure by Bessarion's scribe	M2
Read this line no shame Homer's be the Greek	X
First breathed me from the lips of my Greek girl	N2
This Odyssey in coarse black vivid type	O2
With faded yellow blossoms 'twixt page and page	P2
To mark great places with due gratitude	Q2
He said and on Antinous directed	R2
A bitter shaft a flower blots out the rest	G2
Again upon your search My statues then	T
Ah do not mind that better that will look	S2
When cast in bronze an Almaign Kaiser that	T2
Swart green and gold with truncheon based on hip	U2
This rather turn to What unrecognized	V2
I thought you would have seen that here you sit	W2
As I imagined you Hippolyta	W2
Naked upon her bright Numidian horse	X2
Recall you this then Carve in bold relief	Y2
So you commanded carve against I come	O
A Greek in Athens as our fashion was	Z2
Feasting bay filleted and thunder free	L
Who rises 'neath the lifted myrtle branch	A3
'Praise those who slew Hipparchus ' cry the guests	B3
'While o'er thy head the singer's myrtle waves	C3
'As erst above our champion stand up all '	-
See I have laboured to express your thought	W2
Quite round a cluster of mere hands and arms	D3
Thrust in all senses all ways from all sides	E3
Only consenting at the branch's end	W2
They strain toward serves for frame to a sole face	F3
The Praiser's in the centre who with eyes	H2
Sightless so bend they back to light inside	W2
His brain where visionary forms throng up	G3
Sings minding not that palpitating arch	H3
Of hands and arms nor the quick drip of wine	M
From the drenched leaves o'erhead nor crowns cast off	I3
Violet and parsley crowns to trample on	J3
Sings pausing as the patron ghosts approve	K3
Devoutly their unconquerable hymn	L3
But you must say a well to that say well	M3
Because you gaze am I fantastic sweet	W2
Gaze like my very life's stuff marble marbly	M3
Even to the silence Why before I found	W2
The real flesh Phene I inured myself	N3
To see throughout all nature varied stuff	O3
For better nature's birth by means of art	W2
With me each substance tended to one form	P3
Of beauty to the human archetype	O2
On every side occurred suggestive germs	Q3
Of that the tree the flower or take the fruit	W2
Some rosy shape continuing the peach	R3
Curved beewise o'er its bough as rosy limbs	S3
Depending nestled in the leaves and just	W2
From a cleft rose peach the whole Dryad sprang	T3
But of the stuffs one can be master of	K2
How I divined their capabilities	U3
From the soft rinded smoothening facile chalk	V3
That yields your outline to the air's embrace	F3
Half softened by a halo's pearly gloom	Q
Down to the crisp imperious steel so sure	W3
To cut its one confided thought clean out	W2
Of all the world But marble 'neath my tools	X3
More pliable than jelly as it were	I
Some clear primordial creature dug from depths	Y3
In the earth's heart where itself breeds itself	N3
And whence all baser substance may be worked	W2
Refine it off to air you may condense it	W2
Down to the diamond is not metal there	Z3
When o'er the sudden speck my chisel trips	A4
Not flesh as flake off flake I scale approach	B4
Lay bare those bluish veins of blood asleep	C4
Lurks flame in no strange windings where surprised	W2
By the swift implement sent home at once	R
Flushes and glowings radiate and hover	I
About its track	D4
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Phene what why is this	E4
That whitening cheek those still dilating eyes	H2
Ah you will die I knew that you would die	W2
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Phene begins on his having long remained silent	W2
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Now the end's coming to be sure it must	W2
Have ended sometime Tush why need I speak	X
Their foolish speech I cannot bring to mind	W2
One half of it beside and do not care	Z3
For old Natalia now nor any of them	F4
Oh you what are you if I do not try	W2
To say the words Natalia made me learn	F
To please your friends it is to keep myself	N3
Where your voice lifted me by letting that	W2
Proceed but can it Even you perhaps	G4
Cannot take up now you have once let fall	M3
The music's life and me along with that	W2
No or you would We'll stay then as we are	H4
Above the world	W2
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You creature with the eyes	H2
If I could look for ever up to them	F4
As now you let me I believe all sin	I4
All memory of wrong done suffering borne	J4
Would drop down low and lower to the earth	K4
Whence all that's low comes and there touch and stay	W2
Never to overtake the rest of me	L
All that unspotted reaches up to you	B
Drawn by those eyes What rises is myself	N3
Not me the shame and suffering but they sink	L4
Are left I rise above them Keep me so	F2
Above the world	W2
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But you sink for your eyes	H2
Are altering altered Stay I love you love	K2
I could prevent it if I understood	W2
More of your words to me was't in the tone	V
Or the words your power	I
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Or stay I will repeat	W2
Their speech if that contents you Only change	M4
No more and I shall find it presently	L
Far back here in the brain yourself filled up	G3
Natalia threatened me that harm should follow	F2
Unless I spoke their lesson to the end	W2
But harm to me I thought she meant not you	B
Your friends Natalia said they were your friends	N4
And meant you well because I doubted it	W2
Observing what was very strange to see	L
On every face so different in all else	O4
The same smile girls like me are used to bear	Z3
But never men men cannot stoop so low	F2
Yet your friends speaking of you used that smile	M3
That hateful smirk of boundless self conceit	W2
Which seems to take possession of the world	W2
And make of God a tame confederate	W2
Purveyor to their appetites you know	F2
But still Natalia said they were your friends	N4
And they assented though they smiled the more	P4
And all came round me that thin Englishman	S
With light lank hair seemed leader of the rest	W2
He held a paper What we want said he	L
Ending some explanation to his friends	N4
Is something slow involved and mystical	M3
To hold Jules long in doubt yet take his taste	W2
And lure him on until at innermost	W2
Where he seeks sweetness' soul he may find this	E4
As in the apple's core the noisome fly	W2
For insects on the rind are seen at once	R
And brushed aside as soon but this is found	W2
Only when on the lips or loathing tongue	Q4
And so he read what I have got by heart	W2
I'll speak it Do not die love I am yours	R4
No is not that or like that part of words	S4
Yourself began by speaking Strange to lose	T4
What cost such pains to learn Is this more right	W2
I am a painter who cannot paint	W2
In my life a devil rather than saint	W2
In my brain as poor a creature too	B
No end to all I cannot do	B
Yet do one thing at least I can	U4
Love a man or hate a man	U4
Supremely thus my lore began	U4
Through the Valley of Love I went	W2
In the lovingest spot to abide	W2
And just on the verge where I pitched my tent	W2
I found Hate dwelling beside	W2
Let the Bridegroom ask what the painter meant	W2
Of his Bride of the peerless Bride	W2
And further I traversed Hate's grove	V4
In the hatefullest nook to dwell	M3
But lo where I flung myself prone couched Love	K2
Where the shadow threefold fell	M3
The meaning those black bride's eyes above	K2
Not a painter's lip should tell	M3
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And here said he Jules probably will ask	W4
'You have black eyes Love you are sure enough	O3
'My peerless bride then do you tell indeed	W2
'What needs some explanation What means this '	-
And I am to go on without a word	W2
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So I grew wise in Love and Hate	W2
From simple that I was of late	W2
Once when I loved I would enlace	T4
Breast eyelids hands feet form and face	T4
Of her I loved in one embrace	T4
As if by mere love I could love immensely	L
Once when I hated I would plunge	X4
My sword and wipe with the first lunge	X4
My foe's whole life out like a sponge	X4
As if by mere hate I could hate intensely	L
But now I am wiser know better the fashion	S
How passion seeks aid from its opposite passion	S
And if I see cause to love more hate more	P4
Than ever man loved ever hated before	P4
And seek in the Valley of Love	K2
The nest or the nook in Hate's Grove	V4
Where my soul may surely reach	R3
The essence nought less of each	R3
The Hate of all Hates the Love	K2
Of all Loves in the Valley or Grove	V4
I find them the very warders	T4
Each of the other's borders	T4
When I love most Love is disguised	W2
In Hate and when Hate is surprised	W2
In Love then I hate most ask	W4
How Love smiles through Hate's iron casque	W4
Hate grins through Love's rose braided mask	W4
And how having hated thee	L
I sought long and painfully	L
To reach thy heart nor prick	W4
The skin but pierce to the quick	W4
Ask this my Jules and be answered straight	W2
By thy bride how the painter Lutwyche can hate	W2
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Jules interposes	T4
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Lutwyche Who else But all of them no doubt	W2
Hated me they at Venice presently	L
Their turn however You I shall not meet	W2
If I dreamed saying this would wake me	L
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Keep	C4
What's here the gold we cannot meet again	T
Consider and the money was but meant	W2
For two years' travel which is over now	Y4
All chance or hope or care or need of it	W2
This and what comes from selling these my casts	T4
And books and medals except let them go	W4
Together so the produce keeps you safe	Z4
Out of Natalia's clutches If by chance	T4
For all's chance here I should survive the gang	W4
At Venice root out all fifteen of them	F4
We might meet somewhere since the world is wide	W2
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From without is heard the voice of Pippa singing	W4
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Give her but a least excuse to love me	L
When where	Z3
How can this arm establish her above me	L
If fortune fixed her as my lady there	Z3
There already to eternally reprove me	L
Hist said Kate the Queen	E
But Oh cried the maiden binding her tresses	T4
'T is only a page that carols unseen	E
Crumbling your hounds their messes	T4
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Is she wronged To the rescue of her honour	Z3
My heart	W2
Is she poor What costs it to be styled a donor	Z3
Merely an earth to cleave a sea to part	W2
But that fortune should have thrust all this upon her	Z3
Nay list bade Kate the Queen	E
And still cried the maiden binding her tresses	T4
'T is only a page that carols unseen	E
Fitting your hawks their jesses	T4
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Pippa passes	T4
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Jules resumes	T4
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What name was that the little girl sang forth
Kate The Cornaro doubtless who renounced	W2
The crown of Cyprus to be lady here	Z3
At Asolo where still her memory stays	T4
And peasants sing how once a certain page	P2
Pined for the grace of her so far above	K2
His power of doing good to Kate the Queen	E
She never could be wronged be poor he sighed	W2
Need him to help her	Z3
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Yes a bitter thing	W4
To see our lady above all need of us	T4
Yet so we look ere we will love not I	W2
But the world looks so If whoever loves	T4
Must be in some sort god or worshipper	Z3
The blessing or the blest one queen or page	P2
Why should we always choose the page's part	W2
Here is a woman with utter need of me	L
I find myself queen here it seems	T4
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How strange	M4
Look at the woman here with the new soul	M3
Like my own Psyche fresh upon her lips	T4
Alit the visionary butterfly	W2
Waiting my word to enter and make bright	W2
Or flutter off and leave all blank as first	W2
This body had no soul before but slept	W2
Or stirred was beauteous or ungainly free	L
From taint or foul with stain as outward things	T4
Fastened their image on its passiveness	T4
Now it will wake feel live or die again	T
Shall to produce form out of unshaped stuff	O3
Be Art and further to evoke a soul	M3
From form be nothing This new soul is mine	M
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Now to kill Lutwyche what would that do save
A wretched dauber men will hoot to death
Without me from their hooting Oh to hear	Z3
God's voice plain as I heard it first before	Z3
They broke in with their laughter I heard them	F4
Henceforth not God	W2
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To Ancona Greece some isle	M3
I wanted silence only there is clay	W2
Everywhere One may do whate'er one likes	T4
In Art the only thing is to make sure	Z3
That one does like it which takes pains to know	W4
Scatter all this my Phene this mad dream	C2
Who what is Lutwyche what Natalia's friends	T4
What the whole world except our love my own	V
Own Phene But I told you did I not	W2
Ere night we travel for your land some isle	M3
With the sea's silence on it Stand aside	W2
I do but break these paltry models up	G3
To begin Art afresh Meet Lutwyche I	W2
And save him from my statue meeting him	L3
Some unspected isle in the far seas	T4
Like a god going through his world there stands	T4
One mountain for a moment in the dusk	W4
Whole brotherhoods of cedars on its brow	Z3
And you are ever by me while I gaze	T4
Are in my arms as now as now as now	Z3
Some unsuspected isle in the far seas	T4
Some unsuspected isle in far off seas	T4
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Talk by the way while Pippa is passing from Orcana to the Turret Two or three of the Austrian Police loitering with Bluphocks an English vagabond just in view of the Turret	W2
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Bluphocks	T4
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So that is your Pippa the little girl who passed us singing Well your Bishop's Intendant's money shall be honestly earned now don't make me that sour face because I bring the Bishop's name into the business we know he can have nothing to do with such horrors we know that he is a saint and all that a bishop should be who is a great man beside Oh were but every worm a maggot Every fly a grig Every bough a Christmas faggot Every tune a jig In fact I have abjured all religions but the last I inclined to was the Armenian for I have travelled do you see and at Koenigsberg Prussia Improper so styled because there's a sort of bleak hungry sun there you might remark over a venerable house porch a certain Chaldee inscription and brief as it is a mere glance at it used absolutely to change the mood of every bearded passenger In they turned one and all the young and lightsome with no irreverent pause the aged and decrepit with a sensible alacrity 't was the Grand Rabbi's abode in short Struck with curiosity I lost no time in learning Syriac these are vowels you dogs follow my stick's end in the mud Celarent Darii Ferio and one morning presented myself spelling book in hand a b c I picked it out letter by letter and what was the purport of this miraculous posy Some cherished legend of the past you'll say How Moses hocus pocussed Egypt's land with fly and locust or How to Jonah sounded harshish Get thee up and go to Tarshish or How the angel meeting Balaam Straight his ass returned a salaam In no wise Shackabrack Boach somebody or other Isaach Re cei ver Pur cha ser and Ex chan ger of Stolen Goods So talk to me of the religion of a bishop I have renounced all bishops save Bishop Beveridge mean to live so and die As some Greek dog sage dead and merry Hellward bound in Charon's wherry With food for both worlds under and upper Lupine seed and Hecate's supper And never an obolus Though thanks to you or this Intendant through you or this Bishop through his Intendant I possess a burning pocketful of zwanzigers To pay the Stygian Ferry	L
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st Policeman	S
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There is the girl then go and deserve them the moment you have pointed out to us Signor Luigi and his mother To the rest	W2
I have been noticing a house yonder this long while not a shutter unclosed since morning	W4
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nd Policeman	S
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Old Luca Gaddi's that owns the silkmills here he dozes by the hour wakes up sighs deeply says he should like to be Prince Metternich and then dozes again after having bidden young Sebald the foreigner set his wife to playing draughts Never molest such a household they mean well	M3
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Bluphocks	T4
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Only cannot you tell me something of this little Pippa I must have to do with One could make something of that name Pippa that is short for Felippa rhyming to Panurge consults Hertrippa Believest thou King Agrippa Something might be done with that name
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nd Policeman	S
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Put into rhyme that your head and a ripe musk melon would not be dear at half a zwanziger Leave this fooling and look out the afternoon's over or nearly so	T4
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rd Policeman	S
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Where in this passport of Signor Luigi does our Principal instruct you to watch him so narrowly There What's there beside a simple signature That English fool's busy watching	W4
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nd Policeman	S
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Flourish all round Put all possible obstacles in his way oblong dot at the end Detain him till further advices reach you scratch at bottom Send him back on pretence of some informality in the above ink spirt on right hand side which is the case here Arrest him at once Why and wherefore I don't concern myself but my instructions amount to this if Signor Luigi leaves home to night for Vienna well and good the passport deposed with us for our visa is really for his own use they have misinformed the Office and he means well but let him stay over to night there has been the pretence we suspect the accounts of his corresponding and holding intelligence with the Carbonari are correct we arrest him at once to morrow comes Venice and presently Spielberg Bluphocks makes the signal sure enough That is he entering the turret with his mother no doubt	W2

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