Anniversaries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEDEDFDFDGDGHDHD II HHHHJKJKLLDDMN DDOOKKPQPQHMHNHIHI

Once more the windless days are hereA
Quiet of autumn when the yearB
Halts and looks backward and draws breathC
Before it plunges into deathC
Silver of mist and gossamersD
Through shine of noonday's glassy goldE
Pale blue of skies where nothing stirsD
Save one blanched leaf weary and oldE
That over and over slowly fallsD
From the mute elm trees hanging on airF
Like tattered flags along the wallsD
Of chapels deep in sunlit prayerF
Once more Within its flawless glassD
To day reflects that other dayG
When under the bracken on the grassD
We who were lovers happily layG
And hardly spoke or framed a thoughtH
That was not one with the calm hillsD
And crystal sky Ourselves were noughtH
Our gusty passions our burning willsD
Dissolved in boundlessness and weI
Were almost bodiless almost freeI
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The wind has shattered silver and goldH
Night after night of sparkling coldH
Orion lifts his tangled feetH
From where the tossing branches beatH
In a fine surf against the skyJ
So the trance ended and we grewK
Restless we knew not how or whyJ
And there were sudden gusts that blewK
Our dreaming banners into stormL
We wore the uncertain crumbling formL
Of a brown swirl of windy leavesD
A phantom shape that stirs and heavesD
Shuddering from earth to fall againM
With a dry whisper of withered rainN
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Last from the dead and shrunken daysD
We conjured spring lighting the blazeD
Of burnished tulips in the darkO
And from black frost we struck a sparkO
Of blue delight and fragrance newK
A little world of flowers and dewK
Winter for us was over and doneP
The drought of fluttering leaves had grownQ
Emerald shining in the sunP
As light as glass as firm as stoneQ
Real once more for we had passedH
Through passion into thought againM
Shaped our desires and made that fastH
Which was before a cloudy painN
Moulded the dimness fixed definedH
In a fair statue strong and freeI
Twin bodies flaming into mindH
Poised on the brink of ecstasyI

Aldous Huxley



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