The Reef Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA BCCB DEED CBBC FGFG HBBH IJIJ KLLK MNMN OBBO MPMP LBCB MNNM QIQI MCMC| My green aquarium of phantom fish | A |
| Goggling in on me through the misty panes | B |
| My rotting leaves and fields spongy with rains | B |
| My few clear quiet autumn days I wish | A |
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| I could leave all clearness and mistiness | B |
| Sodden or goldenly crystal all too still | C |
| Yes and I too rot with the leaves that fill | C |
| The hollows in the woods I am grown less | B |
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| Than human listless aimless as the green | D |
| Idiot fishes of my aquarium | E |
| Who loiter down their dim tunnels and come | E |
| And look at me and drift away nought seen | D |
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| Or understood but only glazedly | C |
| Reflected Upwards upwards through the shadows | B |
| Through the lush sponginess of deep sea meadows | B |
| Where hare lipped monsters batten let me ply | C |
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| Winged fins bursting this matrix dark to find | F |
| Jewels and movement mintage of sunlight | G |
| Scattered largely by the profuse wind | F |
| And gulfs of blue brightness too deep for sight | G |
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| Free newly born on roads of music and air | H |
| Speeding and singing I shall seek the place | B |
| Where all the shining threads of water race | B |
| Drawn in green ropes and foamy meshes There | H |
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| On the red fretted ramparts of a tower | I |
| Of coral rooted in the depths shall break | J |
| An endless sequence of joy and speed and power | I |
| Green shall shatter to foam flake with white flake | J |
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| Shall create an instant's shining constellation | K |
| Upon the blue and all the air shall be | L |
| Full of a million wings that swift and free | L |
| Laugh in the sun all power and strong elation | K |
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| Yes I shall seek that reef which is beyond | M |
| All isles however magically sleeping | N |
| In tideless seas uncharted and unconned | M |
| Save by blind eyes beyond the laughter and weeping | N |
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| That brood like a cloud over the lands of men | O |
| Movement passion of colour and pure wings | B |
| Curving to cut like knives these are the things | B |
| I search for passion beyond the ken | O |
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| Of our foiled violences and more swift | M |
| Than any blow which man aims against time | P |
| The invulnerable motion that shall rift | M |
| All dimness with the lightning of a rhyme | P |
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| Or note or colour And the body shall be | L |
| Quick as the mind and will shall find release | B |
| From bondage to brute things and joyously | C |
| Soul will and body in the strength of triune peace | B |
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| Shall live the perfect grace of power unwasted | M |
| And love consummate marvellously blending | N |
| Passion and reverence in a single spring | N |
| Of quickening force till now never yet tasted | M |
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| But ever ceaselessly thirsted for shall crown | Q |
| The new life with its ageless starry fire | I |
| I go to seek that reef far down far down | Q |
| Below the edge of everyday's desire | I |
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| Beyond the magical islands where of old | M |
| I was content dreaming to give the lie | C |
| To misery They were all strong and bold | M |
| That thither came and shall I dare to try | C |
Aldous Huxley
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