Incompleteness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADE FGGFHH IJJIKK LMMLNO FHHFPP QRRQSS TUUIVV SAASWW XYYXHH ZA2A2AB2W| Since first I met thee Dear and long before | A |
| I knew myself beloved save by the sense | B |
| All women have a shadowy confidence | C |
| Half fear that feels its bliss nor asks for more | A |
| I have learned new desires known Love's distress | D |
| Sounded the deepest depths of loneliness | E |
| - | |
| I was a child at heart and lived alone | F |
| Dreaming my dreams as children may at whiles | G |
| Between their hours of play and Earth's broad smiles | G |
| Allured my heart and ocean's marvellous tone | F |
| Woke no strange echoes and the woods' complain | H |
| Made chants sonorous stirred no thoughts of pain | H |
| - | |
| And if sometimes dear Nature spoke to me | I |
| In tones mysterious I had learned so much | J |
| Dwelling beside her daily that her touch | J |
| Made me discerning Though I might not see | I |
| Her purpose nor her meaning I had part | K |
| In the proud throbbing of that mighty heart | K |
| - | |
| But now the earth has put a tiring cloth | L |
| About her face even in the mountains' cheer | M |
| There is a lack and in the sea a fear | M |
| The glad rash sea whose every mood if wroth | L |
| Or soothing mild is dear to me as are | N |
| Joy's new born kisses on the lips of Care | O |
| - | |
| Since I have known thee Dear all life has grown | F |
| An expectation As the swelling grain | H |
| Trembles to harvesting and earth in pain | H |
| Travails till Spring is born so felt alone | F |
| Is the dumb reaching out of things unborn | P |
| The night's gray promise of the amber morn | P |
| - | |
| I long to taste my pleasures through thy lips | Q |
| To sail with thee o'er foaming waves and feel | R |
| Our spirits rise together with the reel | R |
| Of waters and the wavering land's eclipse | Q |
| To see thy fair hair damp with salt sea spray | S |
| And in thine eyes the wildness of the way | S |
| - | |
| I long to share my woods with thee to fly | T |
| To some black hearted forest where the trail | U |
| Of mortals lingers not to hear the gale | U |
| Sweep round us with a shuddering ecstasy | I |
| To feel night's tumult passed the cool soft hand | V |
| Of the untroubled dawn move o'er the land | V |
| - | |
| To swim with thee far out into the bay | S |
| A trembling glitter on the waves the shore | A |
| Glowing with noontide fervor nevermore | A |
| To fear the treacherous depths though long the way | S |
| Sweet beyond words the sighs that breathe and blow | W |
| The moist salt kisses and the glad warm glow | W |
| - | |
| And when the unrest the vague desires that rush | X |
| Over our lives and may not be denied | Y |
| Gone in the tasting lure us where the tide | Y |
| Of men sweeps on let us forget the hush | X |
| Together and in city madness drain | H |
| Our cup of pleasure to its dregs of pain | H |
| - | |
| Ever I need thee Incomplete and poor | Z |
| This life of mine Yet never dream my soul | A2 |
| Craves the old peace Till I may have the whole | A2 |
| My joy is my abiding and what more | A |
| Of dreams and waking bliss the Fates allow | B2 |
| Comes as a gift of Love's great overflow | W |
Sophie M. (almon) Hensley
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