Dining-room Tea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFEE GGHHDDAAGGGIIJJKKGGA A GGEEEEGGL MMNNEEEEEEGGOOAAPQEE EEEEAA| When you were there and you and you | A |
| Happiness crowned the night I too | A |
| Laughing and looking one of all | B |
| I watched the quivering lamplight fall | B |
| On plate and flowers and pouring tea | C |
| And cup and cloth and they and we | C |
| Flung all the dancing moments by | D |
| With jest and glitter Lip and eye | D |
| Flashed on the glory shone and cried | E |
| Improvident unmemoried | E |
| And fitfully and like a flame | F |
| The light of laughter went and came | F |
| Proud in their careless transience moved | E |
| The changing faces that I loved | E |
| - | |
| Till suddenly and otherwhence | G |
| I looked upon your innocence | G |
| For lifted clear and still and strange | H |
| From the dark woven flow of change | H |
| Under a vast and starless sky | D |
| I saw the immortal moment lie | D |
| One instant I an instant knew | A |
| As God knows all And it and you | A |
| I above Time oh blind could see | G |
| In witless immortality | G |
| I saw the marble cup the tea | G |
| Hung on the air an amber stream | I |
| I saw the fire's unglittering gleam | I |
| The painted flame the frozen smoke | J |
| No more the flooding lamplight broke | J |
| On flying eyes and lips and hair | K |
| But lay but slept unbroken there | K |
| On stiller flesh and body breathless | G |
| And lips and laughter stayed and deathless | G |
| And words on which no silence grew | A |
| Light was more alive than you | A |
| - | |
| For suddenly and otherwhence | G |
| I looked on your magnificence | G |
| I saw the stillness and the light | E |
| And you august immortal white | E |
| Holy and strange and every glint | E |
| Posture and jest and thought and tint | E |
| Freed from the mask of transiency | G |
| Triumphant in eternity | G |
| Immote immortal | L |
| - | |
| Dazed at length | M |
| Human eyes grew mortal strength | M |
| Wearied and Time began to creep | N |
| Change closed about me like a sleep | N |
| Light glinted on the eyes I loved | E |
| The cup was filled The bodies moved | E |
| The drifting petal came to ground | E |
| The laughter chimed its perfect round | E |
| The broken syllable was ended | E |
| And I so certain and so friended | E |
| How could I cloud or how distress | G |
| The heaven of your unconsciousness | G |
| Or shake at Time's sufficient spell | O |
| Stammering of lights unutterable | O |
| The eternal holiness of you | A |
| The timeless end you never knew | A |
| The peace that lay the light that shone | P |
| You never knew that I had gone | Q |
| A million miles away and stayed | E |
| A million years The laughter played | E |
| Unbroken round me and the jest | E |
| Flashed on And we that knew the best | E |
| Down wonderful hours grew happier yet | E |
| I sang at heart and talked and eat | E |
| And lived from laugh to laugh I too | A |
| When you were there and you and you | A |
Rupert Brooke
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