It Must Give Pleasure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFF GHI IJK FLF KMN FJO| I | A |
| To sing jubilas at exact accustomed times | B |
| To be crested and wear the mane of a multitude | C |
| And so as part to exult with its great throat | D |
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| To speak of joy and to sing of it borne on | E |
| The shoulders of joyous men to feel the heart | F |
| That is the common the bravest fundament | F |
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| This is a facile exercise Jerome | G |
| Begat the tubas and the fire wind strings | H |
| The golden fingers picking dark blue air | I |
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| For companies of voices moving there | I |
| To find of sound the bleakest ancestor | J |
| To find of light a music issuing | K |
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| Whereon it falls in more than sensual mode | F |
| But the difficultest rigor is forthwith | L |
| On the image of what we see to catch from that | F |
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| Irrational moment its unreasoning | K |
| As when the sun comes rising when the sea | M |
| Clears deeply when the moon hangs on the wall | N |
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| Of heaven haven These are not things transformed | F |
| Yet we are shaken by them as if they were | J |
| We reason about them with a later reason | O |
Wallace Stevens
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