Scenes Of The Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJKK LLMMNOPPQQLLRRSSTTUU VVRWRRXXXXLLXX| I have run where festival was loud | A |
| With drum and brass among the crowd | A |
| Of panic revellers whose cries | B |
| Affront the quiet of the skies | B |
| Whose dancing lights contract the deep | C |
| Infinity of night and sleep | C |
| To a narrow turmoil of troubled fire | D |
| And I have found my heart's desire | D |
| In beechen caverns that autumn fills | E |
| With the blue shadowiness of distant hills | E |
| Whose luminous grey pillars bear | F |
| The stooping sky calm is the air | F |
| Nor any sound is heard to mar | G |
| That crystal silence as from far | G |
| Far off a man may see | H |
| The busy world all utterly | H |
| Hushed as an old memorial scene | I |
| Long evenings I have sat and been | J |
| Strangely content while in my hands | K |
| I held a wealth of coloured strands | K |
| Shimmering plaits of silk and skeins | L |
| Of soft bright wool Each colour drains | L |
| New life at the lamp's round pool of gold | M |
| Each sinks again when I withhold | M |
| The quickening radiance to a wan | N |
| And shadowy oblivion | O |
| Of what it was And in my mind | P |
| Beauty or sudden love has shined | P |
| And wakened colour in what was dead | Q |
| And turned to gold the sullen lead | Q |
| Of mean desires and everyday's | L |
| Poor thoughts and customary ways | L |
| Sometimes in lands where mountains throw | R |
| Their silent spell on all below | R |
| Drawing a magic circle wide | S |
| About their feet on every side | S |
| Robbed of all speech and thought and act | T |
| I have seen God in the cataract | T |
| In falling water and in flame | U |
| Never at rest yet still the same | U |
| God shows himself And I have known | V |
| The swift fire frozen into stone | V |
| And water frozen changelessly | R |
| Into the death of gems And I | W |
| Long sitting by the thunderous mill | R |
| Have seen the headlong wheel made still | R |
| And in the silence that ensued | X |
| Have known the endless solitude | X |
| Of being dead and utterly nought | X |
| Inhabitant of mine own thought | X |
| I look abroad and all I see | L |
| Is my creation made for me | L |
| Along my thread of life are pearled | X |
| The moments that make up the world | X |
Aldous Huxley
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