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To The One Of Fictive Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFBG HIJKLMNGG OPCQPQLCR ISTTUGVWW

Sister and mother and diviner loveA
And of the sisterhood of the living deadB
Most near most clear and of the clearest bloomC
And of the fragrant mothers the most dearD
And queen and of diviner love the dayE
And flame and summer and sweet fire no threadB
Of cloudy silver sprinkles in your gownF
Its venom of renown and on your headB
No crown is simpler than the simple hairG
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Now of the music summoned by the birthH
That separates us from the wind and seaI
Yet leaves us in them until earth becomesJ
By being so much of the things we areK
Gross effigy and simulacrum noneL
Gives motion to perfection more sereneM
Than yours out of our own imperfections wroughtN
Most rare or ever of more kindred airG
In the laborious weaving that you wearG
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For so retentive of themselves are menO
That music is intensest which proclaimsP
The near the clear and vaunts the clearest bloomC
And of all the vigils musing the obscureQ
That apprehends the most which sees and namesP
As in your name an image that is sureQ
Among the arrant spices of the sunL
O bough and bush and scented vine in whomC
We give ourselves our likest issuanceR
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Yet not too like yet not so like to beI
Too near too clear saving a little to endowS
Our feigning with the strange unlike whence springsT
The difference that heavenly pity bringsT
For this musician in your girdle fixedU
Bear other perfumes On your pale head wearG
A band entwining set with fatal stonesV
Unreal give back to us what once you gaveW
The imagination that we spurned and craveW

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