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The Growth Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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They that in play can do the thing they would	B
Having an instinct throned in reason's place	C
And every perfect action hath the grace	C
Of indolence or thoughtless hardihood	B
These are the best yet be there workmen good	B
Who lose in earnestness control of face	C
Or reckon means and rapt in effort base	C
Reach to their end by steps well understood	B
Me whom thou sawest of late strive with the pains	D
Of one who spends his strength to rule his nerve	E
Even as a painter breathlessly who stains	D
His scarcely moving hand lest it should swerve	E
Behold me now that I have cast my chains	D
Master of the art which for thy sake I serve	E
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For thou art mine and now I am ashamed	B
To have us d means to win so pure acquist	B
And of my trembling fear that might have misst	B
Thro' very care the gold at which I aim'd	B
And am as happy but to hear thee named	B
As are those gentle souls by angels kisst	B
In pictures seen leaving their marble cist	B
To go before the throne of grace unblamed	B
Nor surer am I water hath the skill	F
To quench my thirst or that my strength is freed	B
In delicate ordination as I will	F
Than that to be myself is all I need	B
For thee to be most mine so I stand still	F
And save to taste my joy no more take heed	B
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The whole world now is but the minister	G
Of thee to me I see no other scheme	H
But universal love from timeless dream	H
Waking to thee his joy's interpreter	G
I walk around and in the fields confer	G
Of love at large with tree and flower and stream	H
And list the lark descant upon my theme	H
Heaven's musical accepted worshipper	G
Thy smile outfaceth ill and that old feud	B
'Twixt things and me is quash'd in our new truce	I
And nature now dearly with thee endued	B
No more in shame ponders her old excuse	I
But quite forgets her frowns and antics rude	B
So kindly hath she grown to her new use	I
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The very names of things belov'd are dear	G
And sounds will gather beauty from their sense	J
As many a face thro' love's long residence	K
Groweth to fair instead of plain and sere	G
But when I say thy name it hath no peer	G
And I suppose fortune determined thence	J
Her dower that such beauty's excellence	K
Should have a perfect title for the ear	G
Thus may I think the adopting Muses chose	L
Their sons by name knowing none would be heard	B
Or writ so oft in all the world as those	L
Dan Chaucer mighty Shakespeare then for third	B
The classic Milton and to us arose	L
Shelley with liquid music in the world	B
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The poets were good teachers for they taught	B
Earth had this joy but that 'twould ever be	M
That fortune should be perfected in me	M
My heart of hope dared not engage the thought	B
So I stood low and now but to be caught	B
By any self styled lords of the age with thee	M
Vexes my modesty lest they should see	M
I hold them owls and peacocks things of nought	B
And when we sit alone and as I please	N
I taste thy love's full smile and can enstate	B
The pleasure of my kingly heart at ease	N
My thought swims like a ship that with the weight	B
Of her rich burden sleeps on the infinite seas	N
Becalm'd and cannot stir her golden freight	B
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While yet we wait for spring and from the dry	G
And blackening east that so embitters March	O
Well housed must watch grey fields and meadows parch	O
And driven dust and withering snowflake fly	G
Already in glimpses of the tarnish'd sky	G
The sun is warm and beckons to the larch	O
And where the covert hazels interarch	O
Their tassell'd twigs fair beds of primrose lie	G
Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid	B
A million buds but stay their blossoming	P
And trustful birds have built their nests amid	B
The shuddering boughs and only wait to sing	P
Till one soft shower from the south shall bid	B
And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of spring	P
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In thee my spring of life hath bid the while	Q
A rose unfold beyond the summer's best	B
The mystery of joy made manifest	B
In love's self answering and awakening smile	Q
Whereby the lips in wonder reconcile	Q
Passion with peace and show desire at rest	B
A grace of silence by the Greek unguesst	B
That bloom'd to immortalize the Tuscan style	Q
When first the angel song that faith hath ken'd	B
Fancy pourtray'd above recorded oath	R
Of Israel's God or light of poem pen'd	B
The very countenance of plighted troth	R
'Twixt heaven and earth where in one moment blend	B
The hope of one and happiness of both	R
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For beauty being the best of all we know	S
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims	T
Of nature and on joys whose earthly names	T
Were never told can form and sense bestow	S
And man hath sped his instinct to outgo	S
The step of science and against her shames	T
Imagination stakes out heavenly claims	T
Building a tower above the head of woe	S
Nor is there fairer work for beauty found	B
Than that she win in nature her release	U
From all the woes that in the world abound	B
Nay with his sorrow may his love increase	U
If from man's greater need beauty redound	B
And claim his tears for homage of his peace	U
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Thus to thy beauty doth my fond heart look	V
That late dismay'd her faithless faith forbore	G
And wins again her love lost in the lore	G
Of schools and script of many a learned book	V
For thou what ruthless death untimely took	V
Shalt now in better brotherhood restore	G
And save my batter'd ship that far from shore	G
High on the dismal deep in tempest shook	V
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So in despite of sorrow lately learn'd	B
I still hold true to truth since thou art true	G
Nor wail the woe which thou to joy hast turn'd	B
Nor come the heavenly sun and bathing blue	G
To my life's need more splendid and unearn'd	B
Than hath thy gift outmatch'd desire and due	G
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Winter was not unkind because uncouth	W
His prison'd time made me a closer guest	B
And gave thy graciousness a warmer zest	B
Biting all else with keen and angry tooth	W
And bravelier the triumphant blood of youth	W
Mantling thy cheek its happy home possest	B
And sterner sport by day put strength to test	B
And custom's feast at night gave tongue to truth	W
Or say hath flaunting summer a device	X
To match our midnight revelry that rang	Y
With steel and flame along the snow girt ice	X
Or when we hark't to nightingales that sang	Y
On dewy eves in spring did they entice	X
To gentler love than winter's icy fang	Y
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There's many a would be poet at this hour	G
Rhymes of a love that he hath never woo'd	B
And o'er his lamplit desk in solitude	B
Deems that he sitteth in the Muses' bower	G
And some the flames of earthly love devour	G
Who have taken no kiss of Nature nor renew'd	B
In the world's wilderness with heavenly food	B
The sickly body of their perishing power	G
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So none of all our company I boast	B
But now would mock my penning could they see	M
How down the right it maps a jagged coast	B
Seeing they hold the manlier praise to be	M
Strong hand and will and the heart best when most	B
'Tis sober simple true and fancy free	M
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How could I quarrel or blame you most dear	G
Who all thy virtues gavest and kept back none	Z
Kindness and gentleness truth without peer	G
And beauty that my fancy fed upon	A2
Now not my life's contrition for my fault	B
Can blot that day nor work me recompence	M
Tho' I might worthily thy worth exalt	B
Making thee long amends for short offence	M
For surely nowhere love if not in thee	M
Are grace and truth and beauty to be found	B
And all my praise of these can only be	M
A praise of thee howe'er by thee disown'd	B
While still thou must be mine tho' far removed	B
And I for one offence no more beloved	B
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Now since to me altho' by thee refused	B
The world is left I shall find pleasure still	F
The art that most I have loved but little used	B
Will yield a world of fancies at my will	F
And tho' where'er thou goest it is from me	M
I where I go thee in my heart must bear	G
And what thou wert that wilt thou ever be	M
My choice my best my loved and only fair	G
Farewell yet think not such farewell a change	B2
From tenderness tho' once to meet or part	B
But on short absence so could sense deran	A2