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 beforeA
I knew myself beloved save by the senseB
All women have a shadowy confidenceC
Half fear that feels its bliss nor asks for moreA
I have learned new desires known Love's distressD
Sounded the deepest depths of lonelinessE
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I was a child at heart and lived aloneF
Dreaming my dreams as children may at whilesG
Between their hours of play and Earth's broad smilesG
Allured my heart and ocean's marvellous toneF
Woke no strange echoes and the woods' complainH
Made chants sonorous stirred no thoughts of painH
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And if sometimes dear Nature spoke to meI
In tones mysterious I had learned so muchJ
Dwelling beside her daily that her touchJ
Made me discerning Though I might not seeI
Her purpose nor her meaning I had partK
In the proud throbbing of that mighty heartK
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But now the earth has put a tiring clothL
About her face even in the mountains' cheerM
There is a lack and in the sea a fearM
The glad rash sea whose every mood if wrothL
Or soothing mild is dear to me as areN
Joy's new born kisses on the lips of CareO
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Since I have known thee Dear all life has grownF
An expectation As the swelling grainH
Trembles to harvesting and earth in painH
Travails till Spring is born so felt aloneF
Is the dumb reaching out of things unbornP
The night's gray promise of the amber mornP
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I long to taste my pleasures through thy lipsQ
To sail with thee o'er foaming waves and feelR
Our spirits rise together with the reelR
Of waters and the wavering land's eclipseQ
To see thy fair hair damp with salt sea sprayS
And in thine eyes the wildness of the wayS
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I long to share my woods with thee to flyT
To some black hearted forest where the trailU
Of mortals lingers not to hear the galeU
Sweep round us with a shuddering ecstasyI
To feel night's tumult passed the cool soft handV
Of the untroubled dawn move o'er the landV
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To swim with thee far out into the bayS
A trembling glitter on the waves the shoreA
Glowing with noontide fervor nevermoreA
To fear the treacherous depths though long the wayS
Sweet beyond words the sighs that breathe and blowW
The moist salt kisses and the glad warm glowW
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And when the unrest the vague desires that rushX
Over our lives and may not be deniedY
Gone in the tasting lure us where the tideY
Of men sweeps on let us forget the hushX
Together and in city madness drainH
Our cup of pleasure to its dregs of painH
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Ever I need thee Incomplete and poorZ
This life of mine Yet never dream my soulA2
Craves the old peace Till I may have the wholeA2
My joy is my abiding and what moreA
Of dreams and waking bliss the Fates allowB2
Comes as a gift of Love's great overflowW

Sophie M. (almon) Hensley



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