Ode In May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCD EFFEGHIH JKKJLFLF MNNMOPOP QRRSTUTV WBBWXYXY ZWWZMA2MA2

Let me go forth and shareA
The overflowing SunB
With one wise friend or oneB
Better than wise being fairA
Where the pewit wheels and dipsC
On heights of bracken and lingD
And Earth unto her leaflet tipsC
Tingles with the SpringD
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What is so sweet and dearE
As a prosperous morn in MayF
The confident prime of the dayF
And the dauntless youth of the yearE
When nothing that asks for blissG
Asking aright is deniedH
And half of the world a bridegroom isI
And half of the world a brideH
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The Song of Mingling flowsJ
Grave ceremonial pureK
As once from lips that endureK
The cosmic descant roseJ
When the temporal lord of lifeL
Going his golden wayF
Had taken a wondrous maid to wifeL
That long had said him nayF
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For of old the Sun our sireM
Came wooing the mother of menN
Earth that was virginal thenN
Vestal fire to his fireM
Silent her bosom and coyO
But the strong god sued and press'dP
And born of their starry nuptial joyO
Are all that drink of her breastP
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And the triumph of him that begotQ
And the travail of her that boreR
Behold they are evermoreR
As warp and weft in our lotS
We are children of splendour and flameT
Of shuddering also and tearsU
Magnificent out of the dust we cameT
And abject from the SpheresV
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O bright irresistible lordW
We are fruit of Earth's womb each oneB
And fruit of thy loins O SunB
Whence first was the seed outpour'dW
To thee as our Father we bowX
Forbidden thy Father to seeY
Who is older and greater than thou as thouX
Art greater and older than weY
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Thou art but as a word of his speechZ
Thou art but as a wave of his handW
Thou art brief as a glitter of sandW
'Twixt tide and tide on his beachZ
Thou art less than a spark of his fireM
Or a moment's mood of his soulA2
Thou art lost in the notes on the lips of his choirM
That chant the chant of the WholeA2

William Watson



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