Peter Quince At The Clavier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFD GHI JKL MNI A JOPQEQRS TUQQDQ QVQWQV XYZA2Q A QQ RR II B2B2 QQ C2D2D2 QVVVVD2D2 QVVQSQI | A |
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Just as my fingers on these keys | B |
Make music so the self same sounds | C |
On my spirit make a music too | D |
Music is feeling then not sound | E |
And thus it is that what I feel | F |
Here in this room desiring you | D |
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Thinking of your blue shadowed silk | G |
Is music It is like the strain | H |
Waked in the elders by Susanna | I |
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Of a green evening clear and warm | J |
She bathed in her still garden while | K |
The red eyed elders watching felt | L |
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The basses of their beings throb | M |
In witching chords and their thin blood | N |
Pulse pizzicati of Hosanna | I |
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II | A |
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In the green water clear and warm | J |
Susanna lay | O |
She searched | P |
The touch of springs | Q |
And found | E |
Concealed imaginings | Q |
She sighed | R |
For so much melody | S |
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Upon the bank she stood | T |
In the cool | U |
Of spent emotions | Q |
She felt among the leaves | Q |
The dew | D |
Of old devotions | Q |
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She walked upon the grass | Q |
Still quavering | V |
The winds were like her maids | Q |
On timid feet | W |
Fetching her woven scarves | Q |
Yet wavering | V |
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A breath upon her hand | X |
Muted the night | Y |
She turned | Z |
A cymbal crashed | A2 |
Amid roaring horns | Q |
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III | A |
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Soon with a noise like tambourines | Q |
Came her attendant Byzantines | Q |
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They wondered why Susanna cried | R |
Against the elders by her side | R |
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And as they whispered the refrain | I |
Was like a willow swept by rain | I |
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Anon their lamps' uplifted flame | B2 |
Revealed Susanna and her shame | B2 |
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And then the simpering Byzantines | Q |
Fled with a noise like tambourines | Q |
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IV | - |
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Beauty is momentary in the mind | C2 |
The fitful tracing of a portal | D2 |
But in the flesh it is immortal | D2 |
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The body dies the body's beauty lives | Q |
So evenings die in their green going | V |
A wave interminably flowing | V |
So gardens die their meek breath scenting | V |
The cowl of winter done repenting | V |
So maidens die to the auroral | D2 |
Celebration of a maiden's choral | D2 |
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Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings | Q |
Of those white elders but escaping | V |
Left only Death's ironic scraping | V |
Now in its immortality it plays | Q |
On the clear viol of her memory | S |
And makes a constant sacrament of praise | Q |
Wallace Stevens
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