To A. C. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ RSTUVWXQQQYZXA2QB2A2 QC2QRD2Q XXHE2F2DQQG2H2I2J2K2 L2A2M2XK2QK2IN2 SQQXQK2A2K2Not to the staring Day | A |
For all the importunate questionings he pursues | B |
In his big violent voice | C |
Shall those mild things of bulk and multitude | D |
The Trees God's sentinels | E |
Over His gift of live life giving air | F |
Yield of their huge unutterable selves | G |
Midsummer manifold each one | H |
Voluminous a labyrinth of life | I |
They keep their greenest musings and the dim dreams | J |
That haunt their leafier privacies | K |
Dissembled baffling the random gapeseed still | L |
With blank full faces or the innocent guile | M |
Of laughter flickering back from shine to shade | N |
And disappearances of homing birds | O |
And frolicsome freaks | P |
Of little boughs that frisk with little boughs | Q |
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But at the word | R |
Of the ancient sacerdotal Night | S |
Night of the many secrets whose effect | T |
Transfiguring hierophantic dread | U |
Themselves alone may fully apprehend | V |
They tremble and are changed | W |
In each the uncouth individual soul | X |
Looms forth and glooms | Q |
Essential and their bodily presences | Q |
Touched with inordinate significance | Q |
Wearing the darkness like the livery | Y |
Of some mysterious and tremendous guild | Z |
They brood they menace they appal | X |
Or the anguish of prophecy tears them and they wring | A2 |
Wild hands of warning in the face | Q |
Of some inevitable advance of the doom | B2 |
Or each to the other bending beckoning signing | A2 |
As in some monstrous market place | Q |
They pass the news these Gossips of the Prime | C2 |
In that old speech their forefathers | Q |
Learned on the lawns of Eden ere they heard | R |
The troubled voice of Eve | D2 |
Naming the wondering folk of Paradise | Q |
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Your sense is sealed or you should hear them tell | X |
The tale of their dim life with all | X |
Its compost of experience how the Sun | H |
Spreads them their daily feast | E2 |
Sumptuous of light firing them as with wine | F2 |
Of the old Moon's fitful solicitude | D |
And those mild messages the Stars | Q |
Descend in silver silences and dews | Q |
Or what the sweet breathing West | G2 |
Wanton with wading in the swirl of the wheat | H2 |
Said and their leafage laughed | I2 |
And how the wet winged Angel of the Rain | J2 |
Came whispering whispering and the gifts of the Year | K2 |
The sting of the stirring sap | L2 |
Under the wizardry of the young eyed Spring | A2 |
Their summer amplitudes of pomp | M2 |
Their rich autumnal melancholy and the shrill | X |
Embittered housewifery | K2 |
Of the lean Winter all such things | Q |
And with them all the goodness of the Master | K2 |
Whose right hand blesses with increase and life | I |
Whose left hand honours with decay and death | N2 |
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Thus under the constraint of Night | S |
These gross and simple creatures | Q |
Each in his scores of rings which rings are years | Q |
A servant of the Will | X |
And God the Craftsman as He walks | Q |
The floor of His workshop hearkens full of cheer | K2 |
In thus accomplishing | A2 |
The aims of His miraculous artistry | K2 |
William Ernest Henley
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