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 nightA
Stealing amid the waving of the cornB
That waited golden for the harvest mornB
The dream fell on him through the still moonlightA
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The land lay silent and the new mown hayC
Rested upon it like a dreamy sleepD
And stealing softly o'er each yellow heapD
The night breeze bore sweet incense breath awayC
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The dew lay thick upon the unstirr'd leavesE
The glow worm glisten'd brightly as he pass'dF
The thrush still chaunted but the swallows fastF
Hied to their home beneath lone cottage eavesE
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He had been straying through the land that dayC
Dreaming of beauty as some dream of loveG
And all the earth beneath the heaven aboveG
In mirror'd glory on his spirit layC
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And as he went from every sight and soundH
From silence from the sweetness in the airI
From earth from heaven from nature everywhereI
Gleam'd forth a deep dim thought and clasp'd him roundH
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The thought oppress'd him with a weary joyJ
Seeking for ever for its perfect shapeK
That from his eager eyes would still escapeK
Flatter him onward then his hopes destroyJ
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He sought it in the bosom of the hillsL
He sought it in the silence of the woodsM
Their sunny nooks and shady solitudesM
He sought it in the fountains and the rillsM
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He watch'd the stars come faintly through the skiesM
And on his upturn'd brow the clear moon shoneN
Flooding his heart like pale EndymionN
But still the thought hid dimly from his eyesM
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Its voice came to him on the evening breezeM
That flutter'd faintly through his summer dreamsM
He heard it through the flowing of the streamsM
He heard it softly rustling through the treesM
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Yet still the thought that murmur'd through his heartO
He found not anywhere about the landP
Ne'er saw its spirit shape before him standP
Though from all nature it seem'd prone to startO
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And thus he wander'd homeward dreaming stillQ
Of all the beauty that had haunted himR
With mystic meanings shadowy and dimR
By woodland and by meadow vale and hillQ
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He wander'd homeward and in musing moodS
Stay'd his slow steps beside a marble blockT
Hewn from some far unstain'd Italian rockT
That for his shaping chisel waiting stoodU
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Then his heart spoke out to him Not aloneN
This thought divine hides in the streams and woodsM
Seeking expression through their solitudesM
Perchance e'en lies it in this unhewn stoneN
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It may be that the soul which fills all spaceM
And speaks up to us from each thing we seeM
In words that are for ever mysteryM
Within this Parian too hath resting placeM
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He gazed on dreaming through the dim twilightA
And to his inner sight the marble grewV
Clear and translucent so that gazing throughV
A mystic shape form'd to his wondering sightA
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That seem'd imprison'd in the Parian cellW
Seeking in vain release and utteranceM
For evermore with upward beaming glanceM
Framing the words its lips could never tellW
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The vision pass'd but still with unseen powerX
It stirr'd within his heart by night and dayC
And swift to hew the prison walls awayC
The Sculptor toil'd love strengthen'd from that hourX
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He wrought with patience and at length amazedY
Beheld the mystic form all perfect standP
Released in beauty by his artist handP
He scarce knew how and wonder'd as he gazedY
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It was a lovely form whose lifted armsM
Yearn'd towards heaven with all its radiant frameZ
As though the soul within on wings of flameZ
Up from the earth would waft its angel charmsM
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But still one touch retain'd it to the groundH
So that the love that beam'd up from its eyesM
Flow'd evermore towards the distant skiesM
And yet to earth the shape remain'd spell boundH
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The dream fell on him one calm summer nightA
And thus in that fair form still heavenward turningA2
Eternal aspiration endless yearningA2
Stood now the Thought before his gladden'd sightA

Walter R. Cassels



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