Andante Con Moto Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Forth from the dust and dinA
The crush the heat the many spotted glareB
The odour and sense of life and lust aflareB
The wrangle and jangle of unrestsC
Let us take horse Dear Heart take horse and winA
As from swart August to the green lap of MayD
To quietness and the fresh and fragrant breastsC
Of the still delicious night not yet awareB
In any of her innumerable nestsC
Of that first sudden plash of dawnE
Clear sapphirine luminous largeF
Which tells that soon the flowing springs of dayD
In deep and ever deeper eddies drawnE
Forward and up in wider and wider wayD
Shall float the sands and brim the shoresC
On this our lith of the World as round it roarsC
And spins into the outlook of the SunG
The Lord's first gift the Lord's especial chargeF
With light with living light from marge to margeF
Until the course He set and staked be runG
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Through street and square through square and streetH
Each with his home grown quality of darkI
And violated silence loud and fleetH
Waylaid by a merry ghost at every lampJ
The hansom wheels and plunges Hark O harkI
Sweet how the old mare's bit and chainK
Ring back a rough refrainK
Upon the marked and cheerful trampJ
Of her four shoes Here is the ParkI
And O the languid midsummer wafts adustH
The tired midsummer bloomsC
O the mysterious distances the gloomsC
Romantic the augustH
And solemn shapes At night this City of TreesC
Turns to a tryst of vague and strangeL
And monstrous MajestiesC
Let loose from some dim underworld to rangeL
These terrene vistas till their twilight setsC
When dispossessed of wonderfulness they standH
Beggared and common plain to all the landH
For stooks of leaves And lo the Wizard HourB
His silent shining sorcery winged with powerB
Still still the streets between their carcanetsC
Of linking gold are avenues of sleepM
But see how gable ends and parapetsC
In gradual beauty and significanceC
Emerge And did you hearB
That little twitter and cheepM
Breaking inordinately loud and clearB
On this still spectral exquisite atmosphereB
'Tis a first nest at matins And beholdH
A rakehell cat how furtive and acoldH
A spent witch homing from some infamous danceC
Obscene quick trotting see her tip and fadeH
Through shadowy railings into a pit of shadeH
And now a little wind and shyN
The smell of ships that earnest of romanceC
A sense of space and water and therebyN
A lamplit bridge ouching the troubled skyN
And look O look a tangle of silver gleamsC
And dusky lights our River and all his dreamsC
His dreams that never save in our deaths can dieN
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What miracle is happening in the airB
Charging the very texture of the grayD
With something luminous and rareB
The night goes out like an ill parcelled fireB
And as one lights a candle it is dayD
The extinguisher that perks it like a spireB
On the little formal church is not yet greenO
Across the water but the house tops nigherB
The corner lines the chimneys look how cleanO
How new how naked See the batch of boatsC
Here at the stairs washed in the fresh sprung beamP
And those are barges that were goblin floatsC
Black hag steered fraught with devilry and dreamP
And in the piles the water frolics clearB
The ripples into loose rings wander and fleeQ
And we we can behold that could but hearB
The ancient River singing as he goesC
New mailed in morning to the ancient SeaQ
The gas burns lank and jaded in its glassC
The old Ruffian soon shall yawn himself awakeR
And light his pipe and shoulder his tools and takeR
His hobnailed way to workS
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Let us too passC
Pass ere the sun leaps and your shadow showsC
Through these long blindfold rowsC
Of casements staring blind to right and leftH
Each with his gaze turned inward on some pieceC
Of life in death's own likeness Life bereftH
Of living looks as by the Great ReleaseC
Pass to an exquisite night's more exquisite closeC
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Reach upon reach of burial so they feelT
These colonies of dreams And as we stealT
Homeward together but for the buxom breezeC
Fitfully frolicking to heelT
With news of dawn drenched woods and tumbling seasC
We might thus awed thus lonely that we areB
Be wandering some dispeopled starB
Some world of memories and unbroken gravesC
So broods the abounding Silence near and farB
Till even your footfall cravesC
Forgiveness of the majesty it bravesC

William Ernest Henley



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