Ode In May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCD EFFEGHIH JKKJLFLF MNNMOPOP QRRSTUTV WBBWXYXY ZWWZMA2MA2| Let 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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