London Voluntaries - To Charles Whibley - Iii - Scherzando Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAB DDCEFAGGHHFIIJJKKLLM MJJLMJNNOPQPMMMM RRGGRMSMTMMUVMWMVUMM XWMXMYZA2B2MZMA2MM| Down through the ancient Strand | A |
| The spirit of October mild and boon | B |
| And sauntering takes his way | C |
| This golden end of afternoon | B |
| As though the corn stood yellow in all the land | A |
| And the ripe apples dropped to the harvest moon | B |
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| Lo the round sun half down the western slope | D |
| Seen as along an unglazed telescope | D |
| Lingers and lolls loth to be done with day | C |
| Gifting the long lean lanky street | E |
| And its abounding confluences of being | F |
| With aspects generous and bland | A |
| Making a thousand harnesses to shine | G |
| As with new ore from some enchanted mine | G |
| And every horse's coat so full of sheen | H |
| He looks new tailored and every 'bus feels clean | H |
| And never a hansom but is worth the feeing | F |
| And every jeweller within the pale | I |
| Offers a real Arabian Night for sale | I |
| And even the roar | J |
| Of the strong streams of toil that pause and pour | J |
| Eastward and westward sounds suffused | K |
| Seems as it were bemused | K |
| And blurred and like the speech | L |
| Of lazy seas on a lotus haunted beach | L |
| With this enchanted lustrousness | M |
| This mellow magic that as a man's caress | M |
| Brings back to some faded face beloved before | J |
| A heavenly shadow of the grace it wore | J |
| Ere the poor eyes were minded to beseech | L |
| Old things transfigures and you hail and bless | M |
| Their looks of long lapsed loveliness once more | J |
| Till Clement's angular and cold and staid | N |
| Gleams forth in glamour's very stuffs arrayed | N |
| And Bride's her aery unsubstantial charm | O |
| Through flight on flight of springing soaring stone | P |
| Grown flushed and warm | Q |
| Laughs into life full mooded and fresh blown | P |
| And the high majesty of Paul's | M |
| Uplifts a voice of living light and calls | M |
| Calls to his millions to behold and see | M |
| How goodly this his London Town can be | M |
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| For earth and sky and air | R |
| Are golden everywhere | R |
| And golden with a gold so suave and fine | G |
| The looking on it lifts the heart like wine | G |
| Trafalgar Square | R |
| The fountains volleying golden glaze | M |
| Shines like an angel market High aloft | S |
| Over his couchant Lions in a haze | M |
| Shimmering and bland and soft | T |
| A dust of chrysoprase | M |
| Our Sailor takes the golden gaze | M |
| Of the saluting sun and flames superb | U |
| As once he flamed it on his ocean round | V |
| The dingy dreariness of the picture place | M |
| Turned very nearly bright | W |
| Takes on a luminous transiency of grace | M |
| And shows no more a scandal to the ground | V |
| The very blind man pottering on the kerb | U |
| Among the posies and the ostrich feathers | M |
| And the rude voices touched with all the weathers | M |
| Of the long varying year | X |
| Shares in the universal alms of light | W |
| The windows with their fleeting flickering fires | M |
| The height and spread of frontage shining sheer | X |
| The quiring signs the rejoicing roofs and spires | M |
| 'Tis El Dorado El Dorado plain | Y |
| The Golden City And when a girl goes by | Z |
| Look as she turns her glancing head | A2 |
| A call of gold is floated from her ear | B2 |
| Golden all golden In a golden glory | M |
| Long lapsing down a golden coasted sky | Z |
| The day not dies but seems | M |
| Dispersed in wafts and drifts of gold and shed | A2 |
| Upon a past of golden song and story | M |
| And memories of gold and golden dreams | M |
William Ernest Henley
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