Rome: The Vatican--sala Delle Muse (1887) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEBB FFGG HHBB EEII| I sat in the Muses' Hall at the mid of the day | A |
| And it seemed to grow still and the people to pass away | A |
| And the chiselled shapes to combine in a haze of sun | B |
| Till beside a Carrara column there gleamed forth One | B |
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| She was nor this nor that of those beings divine | C |
| But each and the whole an essence of all the Nine | C |
| With tentative foot she neared to my halting place | D |
| A pensive smile on her sweet small marvellous face | D |
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| Regarded so long we render thee sad said she | E |
| Not you sighed I but my own inconstancy | E |
| I worship each and each in the morning one | B |
| And then alas another at sink of sun | B |
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| To day my soul clasps Form but where is my troth | F |
| Of yesternight with Tune can one cleave to both | F |
| Be not perturbed said she Though apart in fame | G |
| As I and my sisters are one those too are the same | G |
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| But my loves go further to Story and Dance and Hymn | H |
| The lover of all in a sun sweep is fool to whim | H |
| Is swayed like a river weed as the ripples run | B |
| Nay wight thou sway'st not These are but phases of one | B |
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| And that one is I and I am projected from thee | E |
| One that out of thy brain and heart thou causest to be | E |
| Extern to thee nothing Grieve not nor thyself becall | I |
| Woo where thou wilt and rejoice thou canst love at all | I |
Thomas Hardy
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