Thoughts On The Shape Of The Human Body Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJKK LLKKMNKKOO| How can we find how can we rest how can | A |
| We being gods win joy or peace being man | A |
| We the gaunt zanies of a witless Fate | B |
| Who love the unloving and lover hate | B |
| Forget the moment ere the moment slips | C |
| Kiss with blind lips that seek beyond the lips | C |
| Who want and know not what we want and cry | D |
| With crooked mouths for Heaven and throw it by | D |
| Love's for completeness No perfection grows | E |
| 'Twixt leg and arm elbow and ear and nose | E |
| And joint and socket but unsatisfied | F |
| Sprawling desires shapeless perverse denied | F |
| Finger with finger wreathes we love and gape | G |
| Fantastic shape to mazed fantastic shape | G |
| Straggling irregular perplexed embossed | H |
| Grotesquely twined extravagantly lost | H |
| By crescive paths and strange protuberant ways | I |
| From sanity and from wholeness and from grace | J |
| How can love triumph how can solace be | K |
| Where fever turns toward fever knee toward knee | K |
| Could we but fill to harmony and dwell | L |
| Simple as our thought and as perfectible | L |
| Rise disentangled from humanity | K |
| Strange whole and new into simplicity | K |
| Grow to a radiant round love and bear | M |
| Unfluctuant passion for some perfect sphere | N |
| Love moon to moon unquestioning and be | K |
| Like the star Lunisequa steadfastly | K |
| Following the round clear orb of her delight | O |
| Patiently ever through the eternal night | O |
Rupert Brooke
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