Retrospect (the South Seas) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFAAGGHHDD IJHHKK LLMMNNOOLLLLPP| In your arms was still delight | A |
| Quiet as a street at night | A |
| And thoughts of you I do remember | B |
| Were green leaves in a darkened chamber | B |
| Were dark clouds in a moonless sky | C |
| Love in you went passing by | C |
| Penetrative remote and rare | D |
| Like a bird in the wide air | D |
| And as the bird it left no trace | E |
| In the heaven of your face | E |
| In your stupidity I found | F |
| The sweet hush after a sweet sound | F |
| All about you was the light | A |
| That dims the greying end of night | A |
| Desire was the unrisen sun | G |
| Joy the day not yet begun | G |
| With tree whispering to tree | H |
| Without wind quietly | H |
| Wisdom slept within your hair | D |
| And Long Suffering was there | D |
| And in the flowing of your dress | I |
| Undiscerning Tenderness | J |
| And when you thought it seemed to me | H |
| Infinitely and like a sea | H |
| About the slight world you had known | K |
| Your vast unconsciousness was thrown | K |
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| O haven without wave or tide | L |
| Silence in which all songs have died | L |
| Holy book where hearts are still | M |
| And home at length under the hill | M |
| O mother quiet breasts of peace | N |
| Where love itself would faint and cease | N |
| O infinite deep I never knew | O |
| I would come back come back to you | O |
| Find you as a pool unstirred | L |
| Kneel down by you and never a word | L |
| Lay my head and nothing said | L |
| In your hands ungarlanded | L |
| And a long watch you would keep | P |
| And I should sleep and I should sleep | P |
Rupert Brooke
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