The Fish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAADDEEFFCCGGAA HHIIAAAAAAAAJJKKA HHAALLMMNNOOHH PPAAQQLLRRQQ SSAATTAAMMHHDDIn a cool curving world he lies | A |
And ripples with dark ecstasies | A |
The kind luxurious lapse and steal | B |
Shapes all his universe to feel | B |
And know and be the clinging stream | C |
Closes his memory glooms his dream | C |
Who lips the roots o' the shore and glides | A |
Superb on unreturning tides | A |
Those silent waters weave for him | D |
A fluctuant mutable world and dim | D |
Where wavering masses bulge and gape | E |
Mysterious and shape to shape | E |
Dies momently through whorl and hollow | F |
And form and line and solid follow | F |
Solid and line and form to dream | C |
Fantastic down the eternal stream | C |
An obscure world a shifting world | G |
Bulbous or pulled to thin or curled | G |
Or serpentine or driving arrows | A |
Or serene slidings or March narrows | A |
There slipping wave and shore are one | H |
And weed and mud No ray of sun | H |
But glow to glow fades down the deep | I |
As dream to unknown dream in sleep | I |
Shaken translucency illumes | A |
The hyaline of drifting glooms | A |
The strange soft handed depth subdues | A |
Drowned colour there but black to hues | A |
As death to living decomposes | A |
Red darkness of the heart of roses | A |
Blue brilliant from dead starless skies | A |
And gold that lies behind the eyes | A |
The unknown unnameable sightless white | J |
That is the essential flame of night | J |
Lustreless purple hooded green | K |
The myriad hues that lie between | K |
Darkness and darkness | A |
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And all's one | H |
Gentle embracing quiet dun | H |
The world he rests in world he knows | A |
Perpetual curving Only grows | A |
An eddy in that ordered falling | L |
A knowledge from the gloom a calling | L |
Weed in the wave gleam in the mud | M |
The dark fire leaps along his blood | M |
Dateless and deathless blind and still | N |
The intricate impulse works its will | N |
His woven world drops back and he | O |
Sans providence sans memory | O |
Unconscious and directly driven | H |
Fades to some dank sufficient heaven | H |
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O world of lips O world of laughter | P |
Where hope is fleet and thought flies after | P |
Of lights in the clear night of cries | A |
That drift along the wave and rise | A |
Thin to the glittering stars above | Q |
You know the hands the eyes of love | Q |
The strife of limbs the sightless clinging | L |
The infinite distance and the singing | L |
Blown by the wind a flame of sound | R |
The gleam the flowers and vast around | R |
The horizon and the heights above | Q |
You know the sigh the song of love | Q |
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But there the night is close and there | S |
Darkness is cold and strange and bare | S |
And the secret deeps are whisperless | A |
And rhythm is all deliciousness | A |
And joy is in the throbbing tide | T |
Whose intricate fingers beat and glide | T |
In felt bewildering harmonies | A |
Of trembling touch and music is | A |
The exquisite knocking of the blood | M |
Space is no more under the mud | M |
His bliss is older than the sun | H |
Silent and straight the waters run | H |
The lights the cries the willows dim | D |
And the dark tide are one with him | D |
Rupert Brooke
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