To Beethoven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN FOFO OOO EBEB PQPQ FBFB FOFO FOFO CDCD EFEF FRFR| In o'er strict calyx lingering | A |
| Lay music's bud too long unblown | B |
| Till thou Beethoven breathed the spring | A |
| Then bloomed the perfect rose of tone | B |
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| O Psalmist of the weak the strong | C |
| O Troubadour of love and strife | D |
| Co Litanist of right and wrong | C |
| Sole Hymner of the whole of life | D |
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| I know not how I care not why | E |
| Thy music sets my world at ease | F |
| And melts my passion's mortal cry | E |
| In satisfying symphonies | F |
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| It soothes my accusations sour | G |
| 'Gainst thoughts that fray the restless soul | H |
| The stain of death the pain of power | G |
| The lack of love 'twixt part and whole | H |
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| The yea nay of Freewill and Fate | I |
| Whereof both cannot be yet are | J |
| The praise a poet wins too late | I |
| Who starves from earth into a star | J |
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| The lies that serve great parties well | K |
| While truths but give their Christ a cross | L |
| The loves that send warm souls to hell | K |
| While cold blood neuters take no loss | L |
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| Th' indifferent smile that nature's grace | M |
| On Jesus Judas pours alike | N |
| Th' indifferent frown on nature's face | M |
| When luminous lightnings strangely strike | N |
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| The sailor praying on his knees | F |
| And spare his mate that's cursing God | O |
| How babes and widows starve and freeze | F |
| Yet Nature will not stir a clod | O |
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| Why Nature blinds us in each act | O |
| Yet makes no law in mercy bend | O |
| No pitfall from our feet retract | O |
| No storm cry out 'Take shelter friend ' | - |
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| Why snakes that crawl the earth should ply | E |
| Rattles that whoso hears may shun | B |
| While serpent lightnings in the sky | E |
| But rattle when the deed is done | B |
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| How truth can e'er be good for them | P |
| That have not eyes to bear its strength | Q |
| And yet how stern our lights condemn | P |
| Delays that lend the darkness length | Q |
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| To know all things save knowingness | F |
| To grasp yet loosen feeling's rein | B |
| To waste no manhood on success | F |
| To look with pleasure upon pain | B |
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| Though teased by small mixt social claims | F |
| To lose no large simplicity | O |
| And midst of clear seen crimes and shames | F |
| To move with manly purity | O |
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| To hold with keen yet loving eyes | F |
| Art's realm from Cleverness apart | O |
| To know the Clever good and wise | F |
| Yet haunt the lonesome heights of Art | O |
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| O Psalmist of the weak the strong | C |
| O Troubadour of love and strife | D |
| Co Litanist of right and wrong | C |
| Sole Hymner of the whole of life | D |
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| I know not how I care not why | E |
| Thy music brings this broil at ease | F |
| And melts my passion's mortal cry | E |
| In satisfying symphonies | F |
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| Yea it forgives me all my sins | F |
| Fits life to love like rhyme to rhyme | R |
| And tunes the task each day begins | F |
| By the last trumpet note of Time | R |
Sidney Lanier
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