The Great Lover (the South Seas) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFAAGGHHIIJJ JJKKLMLNNOPJJQQJJRRS SJJJJJLLTTUUVVWWJJXX YYNNZZJA2A2JJJ B2B2C2MI have been so great a lover filled my days | A |
So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise | A |
The pain the calm and the astonishment | B |
Desire illimitable and still content | C |
And all dear names men use to cheat despair | D |
For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear | D |
Our hearts at random down the dark of life | E |
Now ere the unthinking silence on that strife | E |
Steals down I would cheat drowsy Death so far | F |
My night shall be remembered for a star | F |
That outshone all the suns of all men's days | A |
Shall I not crown them with immortal praise | A |
Whom I have loved who have given me dared with me | G |
High secrets and in darkness knelt to see | G |
The inenarrable godhead of delight | H |
Love is a flame we have beaconed the world's night | H |
A city and we have built it these and I | I |
An emperor we have taught the world to die | I |
So for their sakes I loved ere I go hence | J |
And the high cause of Love's magnificence | J |
And to keep loyalties young I'll write those names | J |
Golden for ever eagles crying flames | J |
And set them as a banner that men may know | K |
To dare the generations burn and blow | K |
Out on the wind of Time shining and streaming | L |
These I have loved | M |
White plates and cups clean gleaming | L |
Ringed with blue lines and feathery faery dust | N |
Wet roofs beneath the lamp light the strong crust | N |
Of friendly bread and many tasting food | O |
Rainbows and the blue bitter smoke of wood | P |
And radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers | J |
And flowers themselves that sway through sunny hours | J |
Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon | Q |
Then the cool kindliness of sheets that soon | Q |
Smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss | J |
Of blankets grainy wood live hair that is | J |
Shining and free blue massing clouds the keen | R |
Unpassioned beauty of a great machine | R |
The benison of hot water furs to touch | S |
The good smell of old clothes and other such | S |
The comfortable smell of friendly fingers | J |
Hair's fragrance and the musty reek that lingers | J |
About dead leaves and last year's ferns | J |
Dear names | J |
And thousand other throng to me Royal flames | J |
Sweet water's dimpling laugh from tap or spring | L |
Holes in the ground and voices that do sing | L |
Voices in laughter too and body's pain | T |
Soon turned to peace and the deep panting train | T |
Firm sands the little dulling edge of foam | U |
That browns and dwindles as the wave goes home | U |
And washen stones gay for an hour the cold | V |
Graveness of iron moist black earthen mould | V |
Sleep and high places footprints in the dew | W |
And oaks and brown horse chestnuts glossy new | W |
And new peeled sticks and shining pools on grass | J |
All these have been my loves And these shall pass | J |
Whatever passes not in the great hour | X |
Nor all my passion all my prayers have power | X |
To hold them with me through the gate of Death | Y |
They'll play deserter turn with the traitor breath | Y |
Break the high bond we made and sell Love's trust | N |
And sacramented covenant to the dust | N |
Oh never a doubt but somewhere I shall wake | Z |
And give what's left of love again and make | Z |
New friends now strangers | J |
But the best I've known | A2 |
Stays here and changes breaks grows old is blown | A2 |
About the winds of the world and fades from brains | J |
Of living men and dies | J |
Nothing remains | J |
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O dear my loves O faithless once again | B2 |
This one last gift I give that after men | B2 |
Shall know and later lovers far removed | C2 |
Praise you All these were lovely say He loved | M |
Rupert Brooke
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