Ode In May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCD EFFEGHIH JKKJLFLF MNNMOPOP QRRSTUTV WBBWXYXY ZWWZMA2MA2Let me go forth and share | A |
The overflowing Sun | B |
With one wise friend or one | B |
Better than wise being fair | A |
Where the pewit wheels and dips | C |
On heights of bracken and ling | D |
And Earth unto her leaflet tips | C |
Tingles with the Spring | D |
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What is so sweet and dear | E |
As a prosperous morn in May | F |
The confident prime of the day | F |
And the dauntless youth of the year | E |
When nothing that asks for bliss | G |
Asking aright is denied | H |
And half of the world a bridegroom is | I |
And half of the world a bride | H |
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The Song of Mingling flows | J |
Grave ceremonial pure | K |
As once from lips that endure | K |
The cosmic descant rose | J |
When the temporal lord of life | L |
Going his golden way | F |
Had taken a wondrous maid to wife | L |
That long had said him nay | F |
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For of old the Sun our sire | M |
Came wooing the mother of men | N |
Earth that was virginal then | N |
Vestal fire to his fire | M |
Silent her bosom and coy | O |
But the strong god sued and press'd | P |
And born of their starry nuptial joy | O |
Are all that drink of her breast | P |
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And the triumph of him that begot | Q |
And the travail of her that bore | R |
Behold they are evermore | R |
As warp and weft in our lot | S |
We are children of splendour and flame | T |
Of shuddering also and tears | U |
Magnificent out of the dust we came | T |
And abject from the Spheres | V |
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O bright irresistible lord | W |
We are fruit of Earth's womb each one | B |
And fruit of thy loins O Sun | B |
Whence first was the seed outpour'd | W |
To thee as our Father we bow | X |
Forbidden thy Father to see | Y |
Who is older and greater than thou as thou | X |
Art greater and older than we | Y |
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Thou art but as a word of his speech | Z |
Thou art but as a wave of his hand | W |
Thou art brief as a glitter of sand | W |
'Twixt tide and tide on his beach | Z |
Thou art less than a spark of his fire | M |
Or a moment's mood of his soul | A2 |
Thou art lost in the notes on the lips of his choir | M |
That chant the chant of the Whole | A2 |
William Watson
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