An Ode To Antares Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCEDEFFGHGIIHJH JKKLMMLNNOOPP FQFQRRSTTSFFUUFF FVVFWWFXWWXYWWY JLJLFFFFFFWWZZA2A2FF B2B2FFC2D2PPWWWWWWLE 2LE2| At dusk when lowlands where dark waters glide | A |
| Robe in gray mist and through the greening hills | B |
| The hoot owl calls his mate and whippoorwills | B |
| Clamor from every copse and orchard side | A |
| I watched the red star rising in the East | C |
| And while his fellows of the flaming sign | D |
| From prisoning daylight more and more released | C |
| Lift their pale lamps and climbing higher higher | E |
| Out of their locks the waters of the Line | D |
| Shaking in clouds of phosphorescent fire | E |
| Rose in the splendor of their curving flight | F |
| Their dolphin leap across the austral night | F |
| From windows southward opening on the sea | G |
| What eyes I wondered might be watching too | H |
| Orbed in some blossom laden balcony | G |
| Where from the garden to the rail above | I |
| As though a lover's greeting to his love | I |
| Should borrow body and form and hue | H |
| And tower in torrents of floral flame | J |
| The crimson bougainvillea grew | H |
| What starlit brow uplifted to the same | J |
| Majestic regress of the summering sky | K |
| What ultimate thing hushed holy throned as high | K |
| Above the currents that tarnish and profane | L |
| As silver summits are whose pure repose | M |
| No curious eyes disclose | M |
| Nor any footfalls stain | L |
| But round their beauty on azure evenings | N |
| Only the oreads go on gauzy wings | N |
| Only the oreads troop with dance and song | O |
| And airy beings in rainbow mists who throng | O |
| Out of those wonderful worlds that lie afar | P |
| Betwixt the outmost cloud and the nearest star | P |
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| Like the moon sanguine in the orient night | F |
| Shines the red flower in her beautiful hair | Q |
| Her breasts are distant islands of delight | F |
| Upon a sea where all is soft and fair | Q |
| Those robes that make a silken sheath | R |
| For each lithe attitude that flows beneath | R |
| Shrouding in scented folds sweet warmths and tumid flowers | S |
| Call them far clouds that half emerge | T |
| Beyond a sunset ocean's utmost verge | T |
| Hiding in purple shade and downpour of soft showers | S |
| Enchanted isles by mortal foot untrod | F |
| And there in humid dells resplendent orchids nod | F |
| There always from serene horizons blow | U |
| Soul easing gales and there all spice trees grow | U |
| That Phoenix robbed to line his fragrant nest | F |
| Each hundred years in Araby the Blest | F |
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| Star of the South that now through orient mist | F |
| At nightfall off Tampico or Belize | V |
| Greetest the sailor rising from those seas | V |
| Where first in me a fond romanticist | F |
| The tropic sunset's bloom on cloudy piles | W |
| Cast out industrious cares with dreams of fabulous isles | W |
| Thou lamp of the swart lover to his tryst | F |
| O'er planted acres at the jungle's rim | X |
| Reeking with orange flower and tuberose | W |
| Dear to his eyes thy ruddy splendor glows | W |
| Among the palms where beauty waits for him | X |
| Bliss too thou bringst to our greening North | Y |
| Red scintillant through cherry blossom rifts | W |
| Herald of summer heat and all the gifts | W |
| And all the joys a summer can bring forth | Y |
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| Be thou my star for I have made my aim | J |
| To follow loveliness till autumn strown | L |
| Sunder the sinews of this flower like frame | J |
| As rose leaves sunder when the bud is blown | L |
| Ay sooner spirit and sense disintegrate | F |
| Than reconcilement to a common fate | F |
| Strip the enchantment from a world so dressed | F |
| In hues of high romance I cannot rest | F |
| While aught of beauty in any path untrod | F |
| Swells into bloom and spreads sweet charms abroad | F |
| Unworshipped of my love I cannot see | W |
| In Life's profusion and passionate brevity | W |
| How hearts enamored of life can strain too much | Z |
| In one long tension to hear to see to touch | Z |
| Now on each rustling night wind from the South | A2 |
| Far music calls beyond the harbor mouth | A2 |
| Each outbound argosy with sail unfurled | F |
| May point the path through this fortuitous world | F |
| That holds the heart from its desire Away | B2 |
| Where tinted coast towns gleam at close of day | B2 |
| Where squares are sweet with bells or shores thick set | F |
| With bloom and bower with mosque and minaret | F |
| Blue peaks loom up beyond the coast plains here | C2 |
| White roads wind up the dales and disappear | D2 |
| By silvery waters in the plains afar | P |
| Glimmers the inland city like a star | P |
| With gilded gates and sunny spires ablaze | W |
| And burnished domes half seen through luminous haze | W |
| Lo with what opportunity Earth teems | W |
| How like a fair its ample beauty seems | W |
| Fluttering with flags its proud pavilions rise | W |
| What bright bazaars what marvelous merchandise | W |
| Down seething alleys what melodious din | L |
| What clamor importuning from every booth | E2 |
| At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in | L |
| Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth | E2 |
Alan Seeger
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