Rhymes And Rhythms - Xxiv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIBJKBLBBB MNOPQRSBBBATSUBVUBWB MXB SSCYZEBBA2B2C2D2E2F2 UG2SE2BE2DH2 NBBSBE2UE2| To A C | A |
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| What should the Trees | B |
| Midsummer manifold each one | C |
| Voluminous a labyrinth of life | D |
| What should such things of bulk and multitude | E |
| Yield of their huge unutterable selves | F |
| To the random importunity of Day | G |
| The blabbing journalist | H |
| Alert to snatch and publish hour by hour | I |
| Their greenest hints their leafiest privacies | B |
| How can he other than endure | J |
| The ruminant irony that foists him off | K |
| With broad blown falsehoods or the obviousness | B |
| Of laughter flickering back from shine to shade | L |
| And disappearances of homing birds | B |
| And frolicsome freaks | B |
| Of little boughs that frisk with little boughs | B |
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| Now at the word | M |
| Of the ancient sacerdotal Night | N |
| Night of the many secrets whose effect | O |
| Transfiguring hierophantic dread | P |
| Themselves alone may fully apprehend | Q |
| They tremble and are changed | R |
| In each the uncouth individual soul | S |
| Looms forth and glooms | B |
| Essential and their bodily presences | B |
| Touched with inordinate significance | B |
| Wearing the darkness like the livery | A |
| Of some mysterious and tremendous guild | T |
| They brood they menace they appal | S |
| Or the anguish of prophecy tears them and they wring | U |
| Wild hands of warning in the face | B |
| Of some inevitable advance of doom | V |
| Or each to the other bending beckoning signing | U |
| As in some monstrous market place | B |
| They pass the news these Gossips of the Prime | W |
| In that old speech their forefathers | B |
| Learned on the lawns of Eden ere they heard | M |
| The troubled voice of Eve | X |
| Naming the wondering folk of Paradise | B |
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| Your sense is sealed or you should hear them tell | S |
| The tale of their dim life and all | S |
| Its compost of experience how the Sun | C |
| Spreads them their daily feast | Y |
| Sumptuous of light firing them as with wine | Z |
| Of the old Moon's fitful solicitude | E |
| And those mild messages the Stars | B |
| Descend in silver silences and dews | B |
| Or what the buxom West | A2 |
| Wanton with wading in the swirl of the wheat | B2 |
| Said and their leafage laughed | C2 |
| And how the wet winged Angel of the Rain | D2 |
| Came whispering whispering and the gifts of the Year | E2 |
| The sting of the stirring sap | F2 |
| Under the wizardry of the young eyed Spring | U |
| Their summer amplitudes of pomp | G2 |
| And rich autumnal melancholy and the shrill | S |
| Embittered housewifery | E2 |
| Of the lean Winter all such things | B |
| And with them all the goodness of the Master | E2 |
| Whose right hand blesses with increase and life | D |
| Whose left hand honours with decay and death | H2 |
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| So under the constraint of Night | N |
| These gross and simple creatures | B |
| Each in his scores of rings which rings are years | B |
| A servant of the Will | S |
| And God the Craftsman as He walks | B |
| The floor of His workshop hearkens full of cheer | E2 |
| In thus accomplishing | U |
| The aims of His miraculous artistry | E2 |
William Ernest Henley
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