The Truce And The Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEFEGFGFHH IFIFFJFKLMLNFF OFOFPQPQFFFFOO RSRSTUTUFVFVFF WXWXFFFFVYVYFF ZA2ZB2C2D2E2F2RG2RG2 FF FAFAH2I2H2I2J2MJ2NFF N N K2 L2 FM2FN2O2O2 F P2 P2PFPFQ2FQ2FFF N NR2S2R2S2SO2ST2BB FNFNFU2XU2XJUO2UNN| NOVEMBER | A |
| Peace now for every fury has had her day | B |
| Their natural make is moribund they cease | C |
| They carry the inward seeds of quick decay | B |
| Build breakwaters for storm but build on peace | C |
| The mountains' peace answers the peace of the stars | D |
| Our petulances are cracked against their term | E |
| God built our peace and plastered it with wars | F |
| Those frescoes fade flake off peace remains firm | E |
| In the beginning before light began | G |
| We lay or fluttered blind in burdened wombs | F |
| And like that first so is the last of man | G |
| When under death for husband the amorous tombs | F |
| Are covered and conceived nine months go by | H |
| No midwife called nine years no baby's cry | H |
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| II | - |
| Peace now though purgatory fires were hot | I |
| They always had a heart something like ice | F |
| That coldly peered and wondered suffering not | I |
| Nor pleased in any park nor paradise | F |
| Of slightly swelling breasts and beautiful arms | F |
| And throat engorged with very carnal blood | J |
| It coldly peered and wondered 'Strong God your charms | F |
| Are glorious I remember solitude | K |
| Before youth towered we knew a time of truth | L |
| To have eyes was nearly rapture ' Peace now for war | M |
| Will find the cave that childhood found and youth | L |
| Ten million lives are stolen and not one star | N |
| Dulled wars die out life will die out death cease | F |
| Beauty lives always and the beauty of peace | F |
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| III | - |
| Peace to the world in time or in a year | O |
| In the inner world I have touched the instant peace | F |
| Man's soul's a flawless crystal coldly clear | O |
| A cold white mansion that he yields in lease | F |
| To tenant dreams and tyrants from the brain | P |
| And riotous burnings of the lovelier flesh | Q |
| We pour strange wines and purples all in vain | P |
| The crystal remains pure the mansion fresh | Q |
| All the Asian bacchanals and those from Thrace | F |
| Lived there and left no wine mark on the walls | F |
| What were they doing in that more sacred place | F |
| All the Asian and the Thracian bacchanals | F |
| Peace to the world to morrow or in a year | O |
| Peace in that mansion white that crystal clear | O |
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| IV | - |
| Peace now poor earth They fought for freedom's sake | R |
| She was starving in a corner while they fought | S |
| They knew not whom they stabbed by Onega Lake | R |
| Whom lashed from Archangel whom loved whom sought | S |
| How can she die she is the blood unborn | T |
| The energy in earth's arteries beating red | U |
| The world will flame with her in some great morn | T |
| The whole great world flame with her and we be dead | U |
| Here in the west it grows by dim degrees | F |
| In the east flashed and will flame terror and light | V |
| Peace now poor earth peace to that holier peace | F |
| Deep in the soul held secret from all sight | V |
| That crystal the pure home the holier peace | F |
| Fires flaw not scars the crudest cannot crease | F |
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| V | - |
| South of the Big Sur River up the hill | W |
| Three graves are marked thick weeds and grasses heap | X |
| Under the forest there I have stood still | W |
| Hours thinking it the sweetest place to sleep | X |
| Strewing all sufficient death with compliments | F |
| Sincere and unrequired coveting peace | F |
| Boards at the head not stones the text's rude paints | F |
| Mossed rain rubbed wasting hours of scanty lease | F |
| To admire their peace made perfect From that height | V |
| But for the trees the whole valley might be seen | Y |
| But for the heavy dirt the eye pits no light | V |
| Enters the heavy dirt the grass growing green | Y |
| Over the dirt the molelike secretness | F |
| The immense withdrawal the dirt the quiet the peace | F |
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| VI | - |
| Women cried that morning bells rocked with mirth | Z |
| We all were glad a long while afterward | A2 |
| But still in dreary places of the earth | Z |
| A hundred hardly fed shall labor hard | B2 |
| To clothe one belly and stuff it with soft meat | C2 |
| Blood paid for peace but still those poor shall buy it | D2 |
| This sweat of slaves is no good wine but yet | E2 |
| Sometimes it climbs to the brain Be happy and quiet | F2 |
| Be happy and live be quiet or God might wake | R |
| He sleeps in the mountain that is heart of man's heart | G2 |
| He also in promontory fists and make | R |
| Of stubborn muscled limbs he will not start | G2 |
| For a little thing his great hands grope unclose | F |
| Feel out for the main pillars pull down the house | F |
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| VII | - |
| After all after all we endured who has grown wise | F |
| We take our mortal momentary hour | A |
| With too much gesture the derisive skies | F |
| Twinkle against our wrongs our rights our power | A |
| Look up the night starlight's a steadying draught | H2 |
| For nerves at angry tension They have all meant well | I2 |
| Our enemies and the knaves at whom we've laughed | H2 |
| The liars the clowns in office the kings in hell | I2 |
| fhey have all meant well in the main some of them tried | J2 |
| The mountain road of tolerance They have made war | M |
| Conspired oppressed robbed murdered lied and lied | J2 |
| Meant well played the loud fool and star by star | N |
| Winter Orion pursues the Pleiades | F |
| In pale and huge parade silence and peace | F |
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| VIII | - |
| That ice within the soul the admonisher | N |
| Of madness when we're wildest the unwinking eye | - |
| That measures all things with indifferent stare | N |
| Choosing far stars to check near objects by | - |
| That quiet lake inside and underneath | K2 |
| Strong undisturbed by any angel of strife | - |
| Being so tranquil seems the presence of death | L2 |
| Being so central seems the essence of life | - |
| Is it perhaps that death and life make truce | F |
| In neutral zone while their old feud beyond | M2 |
| Fires the towered cities Surely for a strange use | F |
| He sphered that eye of flawless diamond | N2 |
| It does not serve him but with line and rod | O2 |
| Measures him how indeed should God serve God | O2 |
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| IX | F |
| It does not worship him it will not serve | - |
| And death and life within that Eye combine | P2 |
| Within that only untorturable nerve | - |
| Of those that make a man within that shrine | P2 |
| Which there is nothing ever can profane | P |
| Where life and death are sister and brother and lovers | F |
| The golden voice of Christ were heard in vain | P |
| The holy spirit of God visibly hovers | F |
| Small breasted girls lithe women heavy haired | Q2 |
| Loves that once grew into our nerves and veins | F |
| Yours Freedom was desire that deeper dared | Q2 |
| To the citadel where mastery remains | F |
| Yours to the spirit discount the penny that is | F |
| Ungivable this Eye this God this Peace | F |
| All in a simple innocence I strove | - |
| To give myself away to any power | N |
| Wasting on women's bodies wealth of love | - |
| Worshipping every sunrise mountain tower | N |
| Some failure mocked me still denying perfection | R2 |
| Parts of me might be spended not the whole | S2 |
| I sought of wine surrender and self correction | R2 |
| I failed I could not give away my soul | S2 |
| Again seeking to give myself I sought | S |
| Outward in vain through all things out through God | O2 |
| And tried all heights all gulfs all dreams all thought | S |
| I found this wisdom on the wonderful road | T2 |
| The essential Me cannot be given away | B |
| The single Eye God cased in blood shot clay | B |
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| XI | F |
| Peace to the world in time or in a year | N |
| But always all our lives this peace was ours | F |
| Peace is not hard to have it lies more near | N |
| Than breathing to the breast When brigand powers | F |
| Of anger or pain or the sick dream of sin | U2 |
| Break our soul's house outside the ruins we weep | X |
| We look through the breached wall why there within | U2 |
| All the red while our peace was lying asleep | X |
| Smiling in dreams while the broad knives drank blood | J |
| The robbers triumphed the roof burned overhead | U |
| The eternal living and untroubled God | O2 |
| Lying asleep upon a lily bed | U |
| Men screamed the bugles screamed walls broke in the air | N |
| We never knew till then that He was there | N |
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