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 QVVQSQ

IA
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Just as my fingers on these keysB
Make music so the self same soundsC
On my spirit make a music tooD
Music is feeling then not soundE
And thus it is that what I feelF
Here in this room desiring youD
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Thinking of your blue shadowed silkG
Is music It is like the strainH
Waked in the elders by SusannaI
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Of a green evening clear and warmJ
She bathed in her still garden whileK
The red eyed elders watching feltL
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The basses of their beings throbM
In witching chords and their thin bloodN
Pulse pizzicati of HosannaI
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IIA
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In the green water clear and warmJ
Susanna layO
She searchedP
The touch of springsQ
And foundE
Concealed imaginingsQ
She sighedR
For so much melodyS
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Upon the bank she stoodT
In the coolU
Of spent emotionsQ
She felt among the leavesQ
The dewD
Of old devotionsQ
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She walked upon the grassQ
Still quaveringV
The winds were like her maidsQ
On timid feetW
Fetching her woven scarvesQ
Yet waveringV
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A breath upon her handX
Muted the nightY
She turnedZ
A cymbal crashedA2
Amid roaring hornsQ
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IIIA
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Soon with a noise like tambourinesQ
Came her attendant ByzantinesQ
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They wondered why Susanna criedR
Against the elders by her sideR
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And as they whispered the refrainI
Was like a willow swept by rainI
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Anon their lamps' uplifted flameB2
Revealed Susanna and her shameB2
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And then the simpering ByzantinesQ
Fled with a noise like tambourinesQ
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IV-
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Beauty is momentary in the mindC2
The fitful tracing of a portalD2
But in the flesh it is immortalD2
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The body dies the body's beauty livesQ
So evenings die in their green goingV
A wave interminably flowingV
So gardens die their meek breath scentingV
The cowl of winter done repentingV
So maidens die to the auroralD2
Celebration of a maiden's choralD2
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Susanna's music touched the bawdy stringsQ
Of those white elders but escapingV
Left only Death's ironic scrapingV
Now in its immortality it playsQ
On the clear viol of her memoryS
And makes a constant sacrament of praiseQ

Wallace Stevens



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