Introduction And Conclusion Of A Long Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGHIJKLMNO PQRSHTUVWXXYZA2B2C2D 2E2L F2G2LH2YLI2J2K2LL2XM 2ZN2O2P2Q2R2S2T2B2U2 V2W2X2Y2C2Z2A3H2P2SB 3| I have gone sometimes by the gates of Death | A |
| And stood beside the cavern through whose doors | B |
| Enter the voyagers into the unseen | C |
| From that dread threshold only gazing back | D |
| Have eyes in swift illumination seen | C |
| Life utterly revealed and guessed therein | E |
| What things were vital and what things were vain | F |
| Know then like a vast ocean from my feet | G |
| Spreading away into the morning sky | H |
| I saw unrolled my vanished days and lo | I |
| Oblivion like a morning mist obscured | J |
| Toils trials ambitions agitations ease | K |
| And like green isles sun kissed with sweet perfume | L |
| Loading the airs blown back from that dim gulf | M |
| Gleamed only through the all involving haze | N |
| The hours when we have loved and been beloved | O |
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| Therefore sweet friends as often as by Love | P |
| You rise absorbed into the harmony | Q |
| Of planets singing round magnetic suns | R |
| Let not propriety nor prejudice | S |
| Nor the precepts of jealous age deny | H |
| What Sense so incontestably affirms | T |
| Cling to the blessed moment and drink deep | U |
| Of the sweet cup it tends as there alone | V |
| Were that which makes life worth the pain to live | W |
| What is so fair as lovers in their joy | X |
| That dies in sleep their sleep that wakes in joy | X |
| Caressing arms are their light pillows They | Y |
| That like lost stars have wandered hitherto | Z |
| Lonesome and lightless through the universe | A2 |
| Now glow transfired at Nature's flaming core | B2 |
| They are the centre constellated heaven | C2 |
| Is the embroidered panoply spread round | D2 |
| Their bridal and the music of the spheres | E2 |
| Rocks them in hushed epithalamium | L |
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| I know that there are those whose idle tongues | F2 |
| Blaspheme the beauty of the world that was | G2 |
| So wondrous and so worshipful to me | L |
| I call them those that in the palace where | H2 |
| Down perfumed halls the Sleeping Beauty lay | Y |
| Wandered without the secret or the key | L |
| I know that there are those of gentler heart | I2 |
| Broken by grief or by deception bowed | J2 |
| Who in some realm beyond the grave conceive | K2 |
| The bliss they found not here but as for me | L |
| In the soft fibres of the tender flesh | L2 |
| I saw potentialities of Joy | X |
| Ten thousand lifetimes could not use Dear Earth | M2 |
| In this dark month when deep as morning dew | Z |
| On thy maternal breast shall fall the blood | N2 |
| Of those that were thy loveliest and thy best | O2 |
| If it be fate that mine shall mix with theirs | P2 |
| Hear this my natural prayer for purified | Q2 |
| By that Lethean agony and clad | R2 |
| In more resplendent powers I ask nought else | S2 |
| Than reincarnate to retrace my path | T2 |
| Be born again of woman walk once more | B2 |
| Through Childhood's fragrant flowery wonderland | U2 |
| And entered in the golden realm of Youth | V2 |
| Fare still a pilgrim toward the copious joys | W2 |
| I savored here yet scarce began to sip | X2 |
| Yea with the comrades that I loved so well | Y2 |
| Resume the banquet we had scarce begun | C2 |
| When in the street we heard the clarion call | Z2 |
| And each man sprang to arms ay even myself | A3 |
| Who loved sweet Youth too truly not to share | H2 |
| Its pain no less than its delight If prayers | P2 |
| Are to be prayed lo here is mine Be this | S |
| My resurrection this my recompense | B3 |
Alan Seeger
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