The Flight Of The Goddess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJL MCMC ININ OPO QRQR STST UMUM VKWL ABAB| A man should live in a garret aloof | A |
| And have few friends and go poorly clad | B |
| With an old hat stopping the chink in the roof | A |
| To keep the Goddess constant and glad | B |
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| Of old when I walked on a rugged way | C |
| And gave much work but for little bread | D |
| The Goddess dwelt with me night and day | C |
| Sat at my table haunted my bed | D |
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| The narrow mean attic I see it now | E |
| Its window overlooking the city's tiles | F |
| The sunset's fires and the clouds of snow | G |
| And the river wandering miles and miles | F |
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| Just one picture hung in the room | H |
| The saddest story that art can tell | I |
| Dante and Virgil in lurid gloom | H |
| Watching the lovers flow through Hell | I |
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| Wretched enough was I sometimes | J |
| Pinched and harassed with vain desires | K |
| But thicker than clover sprung the rhymes | J |
| As I dwelt as a sparrow among the spires | L |
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| Midnight filled my slumbers with song | M |
| Music haunted my dreams by day | C |
| Now I listen and wait and long | M |
| But the Delphian airs have died away | C |
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| I wonder and wonder how it befell | I |
| Suddenly I had friends in crowds | N |
| I bade the house tops a long farewell | I |
| 'Good by ' I cried 'to the stars and the clouds | N |
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| 'But thou rare soul thou hast dwelt with me | O |
| Spirit of Poesy thou divine | P |
| Breath of the morning thou shalt be | O |
| Goddess for ever and ever mine ' | - |
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| And the woman I loved was now my bride | Q |
| And the house I wanted was my own | R |
| I turned to the Goddess satisfied | Q |
| But the Goddess had somehow flown | R |
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| Flown and I fear she will never return | S |
| I am much too sleek and happy for her | T |
| Whose lovers must hunger and waste and burn | S |
| Ere the beautiful heathen heart will stir | T |
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| I call but she does not stoop to my cry | U |
| I wait but she lingers and ah so long | M |
| It was not so in the years gone by | U |
| When she touched my lips with chrism of song | M |
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| I swear I will get me a garret again | V |
| And adore like a Parsee the sunset's fires | K |
| And lure the Goddess by vigil and pain | W |
| Up with the sparrows among the spires | L |
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| For a man should live in a garret aloof | A |
| And have few friends and go poorly clad | B |
| With an old hat stopping the chink in the roof | A |
| To keep the Goddess constant and glad | B |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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