To Nimue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BB CCC DDD EEE FFF CCC GG CCC HHH CCC| I had clean forgotten all her face who had caused my trouble | A |
| Gone was she as a cloud as a bird which passed in the wind as a glittering stream borne bubble | A |
| As a shadow set by a ship on the sea where the sail looks down on its double | A |
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| I had laid her face to the wall on the shelf where my fancies sleep | B |
| I had laid my pain in its grave in its rose leaf passionless grave with the things I had dared not keep | B |
| I had left it there I had dried my tears I had said Ah why should I weep '' | - |
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| I will not be fooled by her by the spell of her fair child's face | C |
| What is its meaning to me who have seen who have known who have loved what miracle forms of grace | C |
| What are its innocent wiles its smiles its idle sweet girlishness | C |
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| I will not love without love I despise the ways of a fool | D |
| Let me prevail as of old as lover as lord as king or have done with Love's tyrant rule | D |
| I was born to command not serve not obey No boy am I in Love's school | D |
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| I have fled to the fields the plains the desert places of rest | E |
| To the forest's infinite smile where the cushat calls from the trees and the yaffle has lined her nest | E |
| To the purple hills with the spray of the sea when the wind blows loud from the west | E |
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| I have done with her love and her the wine draughts of human pleasure | F |
| The voice of nature is best the cradle song of the trees which is hymned to Time's stateliest measure | F |
| As once a boy in the woods I heard it and held it an exquisite treasure | F |
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| I had clean forgotten all I had sung to the indolent hills | C |
| Songs of joy without grief since grief is of human things the shadow of human ills | C |
| I sang aloud in my pride of song to the chime of the answering rills | C |
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| And behold the whole world heard the dull mad manridden Earth | G |
| And they cried A prophet hath risen a sage with the heart of a child a bard of no human birth | G |
| A soul that hath known nor pain nor sin a singer of infinite mirth '' | - |
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| And she too heard it and came And she knew it was I grown wise | C |
| And she stood from the rest apart and I watched her with pitying scorn and then with a sad surprise | C |
| And last with a new sweet passionate joy for I saw there were tears in her eyes | C |
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| And she came and sat at my feet as in days ere our grief began | H |
| And I saw her a woman grown And I was a prophet no more but a desolate voiceless man | H |
| And I clasped her fast in my arms in joy and kissed her tears as they ran | H |
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| And I shall not be fooled by her though her face is fair as a rose | C |
| And I shall not live without love though the world should forget my songs and I should forget its woes | C |
| And the purple hills should forget the sea and the spray when the west wind blows | C |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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