Anniversaries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEDEDFDFDGDGHDHD II HHHHJKJKLLDDMN DDOOKKPQPQHMHNHIHIOnce more the windless days are here | A |
Quiet of autumn when the year | B |
Halts and looks backward and draws breath | C |
Before it plunges into death | C |
Silver of mist and gossamers | D |
Through shine of noonday's glassy gold | E |
Pale blue of skies where nothing stirs | D |
Save one blanched leaf weary and old | E |
That over and over slowly falls | D |
From the mute elm trees hanging on air | F |
Like tattered flags along the walls | D |
Of chapels deep in sunlit prayer | F |
Once more Within its flawless glass | D |
To day reflects that other day | G |
When under the bracken on the grass | D |
We who were lovers happily lay | G |
And hardly spoke or framed a thought | H |
That was not one with the calm hills | D |
And crystal sky Ourselves were nought | H |
Our gusty passions our burning wills | D |
Dissolved in boundlessness and we | I |
Were almost bodiless almost free | I |
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The wind has shattered silver and gold | H |
Night after night of sparkling cold | H |
Orion lifts his tangled feet | H |
From where the tossing branches beat | H |
In a fine surf against the sky | J |
So the trance ended and we grew | K |
Restless we knew not how or why | J |
And there were sudden gusts that blew | K |
Our dreaming banners into storm | L |
We wore the uncertain crumbling form | L |
Of a brown swirl of windy leaves | D |
A phantom shape that stirs and heaves | D |
Shuddering from earth to fall again | M |
With a dry whisper of withered rain | N |
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Last from the dead and shrunken days | D |
We conjured spring lighting the blaze | D |
Of burnished tulips in the dark | O |
And from black frost we struck a spark | O |
Of blue delight and fragrance new | K |
A little world of flowers and dew | K |
Winter for us was over and done | P |
The drought of fluttering leaves had grown | Q |
Emerald shining in the sun | P |
As light as glass as firm as stone | Q |
Real once more for we had passed | H |
Through passion into thought again | M |
Shaped our desires and made that fast | H |
Which was before a cloudy pain | N |
Moulded the dimness fixed defined | H |
In a fair statue strong and free | I |
Twin bodies flaming into mind | H |
Poised on the brink of ecstasy | I |
Aldous Huxley
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