The Sculptor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE CGGC HIIH JKKJ LMMM MNNM MMMM OPPO QRRQ STTU NMMN MMMM AVVA WMMW XCCX YPPY MZZM HMMH AA2A2A| The dream fell on him one calm summer night | A |
| Stealing amid the waving of the corn | B |
| That waited golden for the harvest morn | B |
| The dream fell on him through the still moonlight | A |
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| The land lay silent and the new mown hay | C |
| Rested upon it like a dreamy sleep | D |
| And stealing softly o'er each yellow heap | D |
| The night breeze bore sweet incense breath away | C |
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| The dew lay thick upon the unstirr'd leaves | E |
| The glow worm glisten'd brightly as he pass'd | F |
| The thrush still chaunted but the swallows fast | F |
| Hied to their home beneath lone cottage eaves | E |
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| He had been straying through the land that day | C |
| Dreaming of beauty as some dream of love | G |
| And all the earth beneath the heaven above | G |
| In mirror'd glory on his spirit lay | C |
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| And as he went from every sight and sound | H |
| From silence from the sweetness in the air | I |
| From earth from heaven from nature everywhere | I |
| Gleam'd forth a deep dim thought and clasp'd him round | H |
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| The thought oppress'd him with a weary joy | J |
| Seeking for ever for its perfect shape | K |
| That from his eager eyes would still escape | K |
| Flatter him onward then his hopes destroy | J |
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| He sought it in the bosom of the hills | L |
| He sought it in the silence of the woods | M |
| Their sunny nooks and shady solitudes | M |
| He sought it in the fountains and the rills | M |
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| He watch'd the stars come faintly through the skies | M |
| And on his upturn'd brow the clear moon shone | N |
| Flooding his heart like pale Endymion | N |
| But still the thought hid dimly from his eyes | M |
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| Its voice came to him on the evening breeze | M |
| That flutter'd faintly through his summer dreams | M |
| He heard it through the flowing of the streams | M |
| He heard it softly rustling through the trees | M |
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| Yet still the thought that murmur'd through his heart | O |
| He found not anywhere about the land | P |
| Ne'er saw its spirit shape before him stand | P |
| Though from all nature it seem'd prone to start | O |
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| And thus he wander'd homeward dreaming still | Q |
| Of all the beauty that had haunted him | R |
| With mystic meanings shadowy and dim | R |
| By woodland and by meadow vale and hill | Q |
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| He wander'd homeward and in musing mood | S |
| Stay'd his slow steps beside a marble block | T |
| Hewn from some far unstain'd Italian rock | T |
| That for his shaping chisel waiting stood | U |
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| Then his heart spoke out to him Not alone | N |
| This thought divine hides in the streams and woods | M |
| Seeking expression through their solitudes | M |
| Perchance e'en lies it in this unhewn stone | N |
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| It may be that the soul which fills all space | M |
| And speaks up to us from each thing we see | M |
| In words that are for ever mystery | M |
| Within this Parian too hath resting place | M |
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| He gazed on dreaming through the dim twilight | A |
| And to his inner sight the marble grew | V |
| Clear and translucent so that gazing through | V |
| A mystic shape form'd to his wondering sight | A |
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| That seem'd imprison'd in the Parian cell | W |
| Seeking in vain release and utterance | M |
| For evermore with upward beaming glance | M |
| Framing the words its lips could never tell | W |
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| The vision pass'd but still with unseen power | X |
| It stirr'd within his heart by night and day | C |
| And swift to hew the prison walls away | C |
| The Sculptor toil'd love strengthen'd from that hour | X |
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| He wrought with patience and at length amazed | Y |
| Beheld the mystic form all perfect stand | P |
| Released in beauty by his artist hand | P |
| He scarce knew how and wonder'd as he gazed | Y |
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| It was a lovely form whose lifted arms | M |
| Yearn'd towards heaven with all its radiant frame | Z |
| As though the soul within on wings of flame | Z |
| Up from the earth would waft its angel charms | M |
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| But still one touch retain'd it to the ground | H |
| So that the love that beam'd up from its eyes | M |
| Flow'd evermore towards the distant skies | M |
| And yet to earth the shape remain'd spell bound | H |
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| The dream fell on him one calm summer night | A |
| And thus in that fair form still heavenward turning | A2 |
| Eternal aspiration endless yearning | A2 |
| Stood now the Thought before his gladden'd sight | A |
Walter R. Cassels
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