Sirmione Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEFGHIIIJJJ KKLLMMKNNOOPPQQRRSS TTUPUPVVWXYZZY AAA2A2B2B2C2C2HHD2D2 E2E2QQD2D2F2F2KKA2A2 G2G2JJH2H2I2I2J2J2C2 C2K2K2 L2L2ZZIIM2M2J2J2N2N2 O2O2D2D2D2D2OOE2E2D2 D2P2P2 Q2Q2R2R2S2S2E2T2D2D2 U2U2I2I2G2G2D2D2D2D2 V2V2W2W2X2X2F2F2I2I2 Y2Y2Y2SSZ2Z2D2D2Y2Y2 KKF2F2F2F2D2D2Y2Y2Y2 Y2Y2Y2A3A3A3A3A3A3Give me your hand Beloved I cannot see | A |
So close from shadowy branching tree to tree | A |
Dark leaves hang over us How vast and still | B |
Night sleeps and yet a murmur a low thrill | B |
Sighed out of mystery steals slowly near | C |
Solitary as longing or as fear | C |
Through the faint foliage stirring it and shy | D |
Amid the stillness ere it tremble by | D |
Touches us on the cheek and on the brow | E |
Light as a dew dript finger Listen now | E |
'Tis not alone the hushings of the bough | E |
But on the slabbed rock beaches far beneath | F |
Listen the liquid breath | G |
Of the vast lake that rustles up all round | H |
Whispering for ever Soon shall we be where | I |
The trees end and the promontory bare | I |
Breathes all that wide and water wandering air | I |
Which shall our foreheads and our lips delight | J |
Blown darkly through the breadth and depth and height | J |
Of soft immense and solitary Night | J |
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Where is the Day | K |
Bright as a dream that on this same cliff way | K |
Fretted light shadows on old olive stems | L |
By whose gray riven roots like scarlet gems | L |
The little poppies burned Where those clear hues | M |
Of water melted to diviner blues | M |
In the deep distance of each radiant bay | K |
But close beneath us past the narrowed edge | N |
Of shadow from sheer crag and jutting ledge | N |
Shallowing upon the low reef into gold | O |
A ripple of keen light for ever rolled | O |
Up to the frail reed sighing on the shore | P |
Where are those mountains far enthroned and hoar | P |
Above the glittering water's slumbrous heat | Q |
With old blanched towns sprinkled about their feet | Q |
Lifting majestic shoulders that each side | R |
Of that steep misty northern chasm divide | R |
Where ambushed in the dim gulf ere they leap | S |
Wild spirits of the Wind and Thunder sleep | S |
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'Tis flown that many coloured dream is flown | T |
And with the heart of Night we are alone | T |
This is the verge The promontory ends | U |
Now the dim branches cover us no more | P |
Abrupt the path descends | U |
But here will we sit high above the shore | P |
Here where we know what wild flowered bushes cloak | V |
Old ruined walls and crumbling arches choke | V |
With mounded earth though buried from our eyes | W |
In dark now as beneath dark centuries | X |
The marble towered magnificence of Rome | Y |
From whose hot dust the passionate poet fled | Z |
Hither and laid his head | Z |
Where these same waters laughed him welcome home | Y |
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It is all dark but how the air breathes free | A |
Beloved lean to me | A |
Feel how the stillness like a bath desired | A2 |
With happy pressure heals our senses tired | A2 |
And drink the keen sweet fragrance from the grass | B2 |
And wafts from hidden flowers that come and pass | B2 |
None here but we and we have left behind | C2 |
The world and cares confined | C2 |
All with the daylight drowned | H |
In darkness on this height of utmost ground | H |
Where under us the sighing waters cease | D2 |
And over us are only stars and peace | D2 |
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O Love Love Love look up Let your head lean | E2 |
Back on my shoulder Ah I feel the keen | E2 |
Indrawing of your breath and your heart beat | Q |
Under my own and sighing through you sweet | Q |
The wonder of the Night that widely broods | D2 |
Over us with her glittering multitudes | D2 |
Oh in Night's garden has a fountain sprung | F2 |
That over old earth showers forever young | F2 |
A fairy splendour of still dropping spray | K |
Or in mad rapture has enamoured May | K |
Through the warm dusk mounted like wine and towered | A2 |
And in far spaces infinitely flowered | A2 |
Breaking the deep heaven into milky bloom | G2 |
So beautiful in this most tender gloom | G2 |
Ten thousand thousand stars through height on height | J |
Burn over us how breathless and how bright | J |
Some wild some fevered some august and large | H2 |
Royal and blazing like a hero's targe | H2 |
Some faint and secret from abysses brought | I2 |
Lone as an incommunicable thought | I2 |
They throng they reign they droop they bloom they glow | J2 |
Upon our gaze and as we gaze they grow | J2 |
In patience and in glory till the mind | C2 |
Is brimmed and to all other being blind | C2 |
They hang they fall towards us spears of fire | K2 |
Piercing us through with joy and with desire | K2 |
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Ah me Beloved comes an alien gust | L2 |
A sudden cold thought blowing bitter dust | L2 |
Upon this rapture They are dead all dead | Z |
'Tis but the beauty of Medusa's head | Z |
Gleaming on us in icy masks that stare | I |
From everlasting winter blind and bare | I |
They have no answer for our hearts that yearn | M2 |
They have no joy in burning only burn | M2 |
Upon their senseless motion Ah no no | J2 |
Can you not feel the warm truth overflow | J2 |
Light to light answers even as heart to heart | N2 |
And by their shining we in them have part | N2 |
Lo the same light that in the tiniest spark | O2 |
Makes momentary beauty from the dark | O2 |
The light that blesses warm earth and inweaves | D2 |
A million colours in young flowers and leaves | D2 |
That our sick thoughts and melancholy eyes | D2 |
Confounds with magical simplicities | D2 |
Yea that by dawn's beginning shall unfold | O |
Wide glimmering waters and to glory mould | O |
Frore peaks wild torrents in the vales between | E2 |
And golden mists on lawns of living green | E2 |
'Tis the same light that now above us showers | D2 |
These star drops white and fair as falling flowers | D2 |
And silent rings a cry from star to sun | P2 |
Through all the worlds Light life and love are one | P2 |
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Hush your heart now Beloved hush to sink | Q2 |
Your thought down deep as the still mind can think | Q2 |
Then climb as high as boldest thought can climb | R2 |
Were these dark heavens the unfathomed gulfs of Time | R2 |
So might we see bright peopling spirits star | S2 |
The memoriless ages burning far | S2 |
Splendid or faint tempestuous or serene | E2 |
All quick and fiery spirits that have been | T2 |
From whose immortal ecstasies and pains | D2 |
Drops of red life run sanguine in our veins | D2 |
Who lived and loved and prodigally spent | U2 |
Their strength their prayers upon one pure intent | U2 |
In whom no deed was willed no lonely thought | I2 |
Attempered and to sword blade keenness brought | I2 |
But it has helped us even us for whom | G2 |
They shine in glory from the ages' gloom | G2 |
But oh it is not only these I see | D2 |
Look up behold unnumbered hosts to be | D2 |
What shall we do for them whose hope endears | D2 |
Futurity's dark wilderness of years | D2 |
Heroes that shall adventure and attain | V2 |
What broke our wills in passion and in pain | V2 |
Sages to find all that we vainly seek | W2 |
Poets to utter all we cannot speak | W2 |
And they at last shall into strong towers build | X2 |
The stones we bled to gather the unfulfilled | X2 |
House of our dream what was but fable sung | F2 |
Or indignation on a prophet's tongue | F2 |
Made form and hue of life's own tissue wrought | I2 |
Into the rich reality of thought | I2 |
And women ah what majesty of fate | Y2 |
Is theirs for whom the little is made great | Y2 |
The tender strong far off they also wait | Y2 |
The glory of their burden Love what deep | S |
Of mystery unfolds Let your heart leap | S |
Lo at your bosom all the world to come | Z2 |
A child It waits it watches it is dumb | Z2 |
Yet hearkens and desires the vision grows | D2 |
Before us and behind us overflows | D2 |
Mingling as throng on throng of stars o'erhead | Y2 |
One undivided host the mighty dead | Y2 |
The mightier unborn Time is rent away | K |
There is no morrow no nor yesterday | K |
Nor here nor there nor sleeping nor awaking | F2 |
But like full waters into ocean breaking | F2 |
Lost at this moment in our heart's high beating | F2 |
The boundless tides of either world are meeting | F2 |
And by the love cry in my heart that rings | D2 |
And by the answer in your heart that sings | D2 |
We feel at once exulting and afraid | Y2 |
Near to the glowing of the Hand that made | Y2 |
And out of earth with divine fire instinct | Y2 |
Moulded us for each other's need and linked | Y2 |
Our brief breath with the eternal will That light | Y2 |
Shall kindle in the dulling world's despite | Y2 |
The inmost of our spirits burning through | A3 |
The shadow of all we suffer dream and do | A3 |
As surely as mine eyes new facultied | A3 |
In vision to the estranging day denied | A3 |
Still shall behold when this fair night is fled | A3 |
All the stars shine round your belov d head | A3 |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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