To The One Of Fictive Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFBG HIJKLMNGG OPCQPQLCR ISTTUGVWW| Sister and mother and diviner love | A |
| And of the sisterhood of the living dead | B |
| Most near most clear and of the clearest bloom | C |
| And of the fragrant mothers the most dear | D |
| And queen and of diviner love the day | E |
| And flame and summer and sweet fire no thread | B |
| Of cloudy silver sprinkles in your gown | F |
| Its venom of renown and on your head | B |
| No crown is simpler than the simple hair | G |
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| Now of the music summoned by the birth | H |
| That separates us from the wind and sea | I |
| Yet leaves us in them until earth becomes | J |
| By being so much of the things we are | K |
| Gross effigy and simulacrum none | L |
| Gives motion to perfection more serene | M |
| Than yours out of our own imperfections wrought | N |
| Most rare or ever of more kindred air | G |
| In the laborious weaving that you wear | G |
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| For so retentive of themselves are men | O |
| That music is intensest which proclaims | P |
| The near the clear and vaunts the clearest bloom | C |
| And of all the vigils musing the obscure | Q |
| That apprehends the most which sees and names | P |
| As in your name an image that is sure | Q |
| Among the arrant spices of the sun | L |
| O bough and bush and scented vine in whom | C |
| We give ourselves our likest issuance | R |
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| Yet not too like yet not so like to be | I |
| Too near too clear saving a little to endow | S |
| Our feigning with the strange unlike whence springs | T |
| The difference that heavenly pity brings | T |
| For this musician in your girdle fixed | U |
| Bear other perfumes On your pale head wear | G |
| A band entwining set with fatal stones | V |
| Unreal give back to us what once you gave | W |
| The imagination that we spurned and crave | W |
Wallace Stevens
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