Anniversaries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEDEDFDFDGDGHDHD II HHHHJKJKLLDDMN DDOOKKPQPQHMHNHIHI| Once 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 Leonard Huxley
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