Wallace Stevens

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It Must Give Pleasure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFF GHI IJK FLF KMN FJO

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To sing jubilas at exact accustomed timesB
To be crested and wear the mane of a multitudeC
And so as part to exult with its great throatD
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To speak of joy and to sing of it borne onE
The shoulders of joyous men to feel the heartF
That is the common the bravest fundamentF
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This is a facile exercise JeromeG
Begat the tubas and the fire wind stringsH
The golden fingers picking dark blue airI
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For companies of voices moving thereI
To find of sound the bleakest ancestorJ
To find of light a music issuingK
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Whereon it falls in more than sensual modeF
But the difficultest rigor is forthwithL
On the image of what we see to catch from thatF
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Irrational moment its unreasoningK
As when the sun comes rising when the seaM
Clears deeply when the moon hangs on the wallN
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Of heaven haven These are not things transformedF
Yet we are shaken by them as if they wereJ
We reason about them with a later reasonO

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