To A Happy Warrior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEFGHIIJKLKMMKL NOOKKKKPPQQRKQRSQTKT KKT UVVUWWXXYWKYKZKKZKKK A2B2KKK SMMSWPYYC2C2D2D2WE2E 2 F2KKG2H2KLH2NKG2KKLK KKNI2J2KKE2E2KG2G2K2 K2KKL2KKL2M2LN2O2 KP2C2Q2JKQ2HG2Q2KG2J KKKR2KR2KS2KS2NNKKQ2 T2T2Q2Q2NNU2Q2KKU2Q2 V2Q2NNV2W2X2Y2Y2 Z2KQ2KKKA3KQ2KKA3KKK B3KNNKKG2K| Glory to God who made a man like this | A |
| To God be praise who in the empty heaven | B |
| Set Earth's gay globe | C |
| With its green vesture given | B |
| And nuptial robe | C |
| To be the home enthroned of happiness | D |
| Who from the silences | E |
| Of the dumb Universe | F |
| For listening ears | G |
| Constructed song | H |
| And fashioned the first note | I |
| Of the first linnet's throat | I |
| His audible whisper the deep woods among | J |
| Who with His dance masters | K |
| The dappled deer | L |
| And their fleet fawns | K |
| With rhythmic beat | M |
| Of their light feet | M |
| Upon the thyme sweet lawns | K |
| Framed the free gamut of the wakening year | L |
| And gave command to mirth His minister | N |
| That all things young and glad | O |
| And mad | O |
| In this fair world's expanse | K |
| Should dance | K |
| Praise be and most for these | K |
| The lyric ecstasies | K |
| Sublime in each least lot | P |
| The passionate plot | P |
| Subtly contrived to propagate their kind | Q |
| By beast and bird and in Man's livelier mind | Q |
| To make of life new life | R |
| Of joy new joy in corporal bliss | K |
| Entwined | Q |
| Man's who is man and wife | R |
| Though neither he have thought | S |
| Nor she in their love blind | Q |
| Of that child's smile | T |
| Half hers half his | K |
| Unborn the while | T |
| They clasp and kiss | K |
| These are the vastnesses | K |
| That bid us give God glory for his depths of guile | T |
| - | |
| And he The ultimate man | U |
| The heir of their delight | V |
| Whose keener sight | V |
| Grasped the full vision of Time's master plan | U |
| And who because he knew | W |
| Found power to do | W |
| What the rest dared not and was thus the priest | X |
| Of the divine high feast | X |
| Of Love on Earth Poet whose prosody | Y |
| Embraced heaven's infinite blue | W |
| And the white light of stars | K |
| The moon's proud chastity | Y |
| And the sea beating on its prison bars | K |
| Whose ritual | Z |
| Was the procession of the months and days | K |
| In ordered praise | K |
| Of ceremonial flowers Earth's virginal | Z |
| Patchwork of shredded colours in the grass | K |
| Whose incense was | K |
| The mist of morning and whose sacrifice | K |
| The sun in splendour by whose light all live | A2 |
| How shall we give | B2 |
| To one thus wise | K |
| Our homage who so loved him and alas | K |
| Now weep for him with unavailing eyes | K |
| - | |
| For what is wisdom more than this one thought | S |
| To harvest happiness Time has its wheat | M |
| Its rule of life discreet | M |
| By scholars taught | S |
| For daily bread and its weeds too | W |
| Its wild crop of the woods which is not bought | P |
| Its way that fools call folly | Y |
| Choke pear crab holly | Y |
| All the riot | C2 |
| Of the bird's diet | C2 |
| For maid and boy | D2 |
| Their winter pick of joy | D2 |
| If they but knew | W |
| And these to learn and gather in their prime | E2 |
| Is youth's sublime | E2 |
| - | |
| Here lay his victory Not flowers alone | F2 |
| Nor fruits were his | K |
| But the world's sadnesses | K |
| He gathered also its loves lost and gone | G2 |
| The tragic things that are | H2 |
| As the maple leaves | K |
| Of the fast dying year | L |
| Crowning its funeral car | H2 |
| The glory of its passing set on fire | N |
| In the late hedges | K |
| The wreathed bryony | G2 |
| Black with the Autumn saltings of the Sea | K |
| And those lone sedges at the lake's edges | K |
| Which winter winds have whitened on the mere | L |
| These as the symbols of his Soul's romance | K |
| In antique lands | K |
| He bound into the sheaves | K |
| Of his desire | N |
| A wreath | I2 |
| Nobler for death | J2 |
| Of these he fashioned a new chivalry | K |
| For days to be | K |
| Incorporate with the glories of all Time | E2 |
| The immortal rhyme | E2 |
| Of Roland and the paladins of France | K |
| Of Charlemagne | G2 |
| The Cid Bivar of Spain | G2 |
| And those pround questers of the Holy Grail | K2 |
| Who rode with Arthur cap pie in mail | K2 |
| Till in his hands | K |
| It seemed the actual lance | K |
| Of Lancelot trembled and took edge and shook | L2 |
| Defiance at his foes in Lyonnesse | K |
| No less than those | K |
| Of whom it is written in the old French book | L2 |
| That he pursued and slew and scattering rent | M2 |
| Their ranks in fear | L |
| While the Earth trembled his glad shout to hear | N2 |
| So he in his high rage in Parliament | O2 |
| - | |
| Anon too at the feasts | K |
| Where with the knights and ladies crowned he sat | P2 |
| Their laureate | C2 |
| Of that famed Table Round its pleasure's lord | Q2 |
| His was the tongue | J |
| To celebrate their praise | K |
| Theirs the adored | Q2 |
| With virile minstrelsy and mirth and song | H |
| And generous wine | G2 |
| Outpoured | Q2 |
| In draughts divine from flagons | K |
| Rich with the mellow fruitage of the vine | G2 |
| His was the tongue | J |
| To tell of valorous deeds | K |
| Done for high honour's needs | K |
| On pestilent dragons in dank forest places | K |
| Vanquished and slain and felon knights laid low | R2 |
| For fair loved faces | K |
| In days long ago | R2 |
| Amorous sad tales of dolorous mistakes | K |
| At hands that sought to save | S2 |
| Ancient heart aches | K |
| Each laid to rest in its forgotten grave | S2 |
| And with them griefs which venturing found their hour | N |
| Fruitage and flower | N |
| And were fulfilled of joy and chiefly hers | K |
| Royal sad Guinevere's | K |
| Noblest of all among the tragic dead | Q2 |
| Of her he loved to tell | T2 |
| And he did well | T2 |
| For she the lady of his dreams one night | Q2 |
| As it is said | Q2 |
| In Glastonbury | N |
| Hearing his young steps hurry | N |
| As to a goal | U2 |
| To kneel at her dead feet | Q2 |
| Where as she lay with her sleep folded palms | K |
| In the long calms | K |
| Of a passed soul | U2 |
| Did from her cerements white | Q2 |
| Awake | V2 |
| And feel her passionate heart beat | Q2 |
| To his desire | N |
| And in new bride's attire | N |
| Arise and live a woman for his sake | V2 |
| A woman and no dream | W2 |
| These were the rhapsodies of life to him | X2 |
| The things that his heart's zeal | Y2 |
| Made real | Y2 |
| - | |
| And who shall wonder if to day we weep | Z2 |
| Our Prince of happiness | K |
| Our warrior dead | Q2 |
| If we who saw | K |
| These wonders beyond law | K |
| And his proud soul's essay | K |
| To live the great life of the Fellowship | A3 |
| In our late day | K |
| Should mourn him fled | Q2 |
| Yet none the less | K |
| Give praise | K |
| To God with chastened but undoubting lip | A3 |
| For this exemplar of His works and ways | K |
| Since that we know that in His scheme of bliss | K |
| No permanent anguish is | K |
| But beauty only and high ruth and truth | B3 |
| And that Life's law is this | K |
| Pleasure is duty duty pleasure | N |
| In equal measure | N |
| And Time's happiness | K |
| God's all sufficient reason with the wise | K |
| As with this man | G2 |
| Who sleeps in Paradise | K |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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