Metabole Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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An Apostrophe To The Moon	A
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O silvery moon fair mistress of the night	B
Thou mellow ever vaccilating orb	C
How many eons of unmeasured time	D
Hast thou observant from thy astral poise	E
Thy ever changing station in the skies	F
Beheld the wastes of earth of air and space	G
Ruling the waters and the sombre night	B
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Pale queen of night fair coquette of the skies	F
Thou who with fickle sweet inconstancy	H
Receives the smile from the admiring sun	I
And straight transmits it to the sordid earth	J
How many cycles of the silent past	K
Hast thou beheld the rise and fall of man	L
His proud ascendency and swift decline	M
His zenith and his pitiful decay	N
E'er he emerged from out the dismal cave	O
His habitation rude and primitive	P
E'er yet the forest trembled at his stroke	Q
E'er his indenting chisel cleaved the stones	R
And framed the first crude human domicile	S
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As time rolled on and human skill advanced	T
By almost imperceptible degrees	U
Of slow experimental tutorage	V
Along a nobler more artistic plane	W
He hewed the stones in form of ornament	X
Sculptured device of various design	M
Embellishment of cunning symmetry	H
Man's first attempt to scale the realms of art	Y
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Thou hast beheld him on his suppliant kneel	S
Engaged in worship audible or mute	Z
Invoking thy protection and thy aid	A2
Thy gracious favor and beatitude	A2
With arms outstretched in reverential awe	B2
Propitiating thee with fervent prayer	C2
For the remission of thy baleful stroke	Q
Thou hast beheld his superstitious fear	D2
And heard his curses and his solemn prayers	E2
As thy dark form eclipsed the smiling sun	I
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Thou hast beheld him fashion and adorn	F2
The gorgeous altar and the totem pole	S
With fervent zeal and blind simplicity	A2
From base materials of wood or stone	G2
Carve out a God then kneel and worship it	A2
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Thou too hast heard the slave whip's poignant crack	H2
The sound of avarice and turpitude	A2
As hands unwilling plied their arduous task	I2
Creating monuments to iron will	S
Human injustice greed and servitude	A2
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Thou hast beheld him shape the pyramids	J2
Heap up the mound and build the massive wall	S
Create the castle and the towering spire	K2
The ponderous dome and stately edifice	L2
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From thy observant orbit in the skies	F
Did'st thou behold that sacrilegious tower	M2
Which reared its massive form on Babel's plain	W
Built by misguided and presumptuous men	N2
In vain and ineffectual attempt	A2
To scale the heavens surreptitiously	A2
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E'er the completion of the impious pile	S
Thou mayest have heard with silent nonchalance	O2
That strange catastrophe of human speech	P2
That dire confusion of the languages	Q2
Confounding all the tongues and dialects	R2
To unknown chaos of peculiar sounds	S2
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Changing the conversation of the day	A2
To accents strange and unintelligible	S
Unlike to common and accepted terms	T2
To tones mysterious and unnatural	S
Conglomerated forms of utterance	U2
Which bore no semblance to the human voice	V2
Some rent the air with unaccustomed words	W2
Striving in desperation to converse	X2
With ears which heard but could not understand	A2
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Some cursed with oaths unknown to all but them	Y2
While some essayed to frame the words of prayer	C2
Or to articulate the stern command	A2
And one in most supreme authority	A2
Declaimed a ponderous regal ordinance	U2
But heard a sea of unfamiliar sounds	S2
Confused and desultory turbulence and dissonance of harsh	Z2
discordant tones	R
Instead of due attention and applause	A3
Nor were his words and usual forms of speech	P2
Respected by the idle wondering craft	A2
Which lately comprehended and obeyed	A2
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Workmen addressed each other but conveyed	A2
No sense of meaning in their jargonings	A3
Nor had cognizance from the stammered tones	A3
Answered in turn in verbal nothingness	A3
The crabbed cynic might no longer rail	S
Nor those of sober countenance discourse	A3
In melancholy and foreboding strains	A3
Nor light and frivolous sons of levity	A2
On others perpetrate the humorous jest	A2
Fathers attempted to correct their sons	A3
Who listening with filial reverence	A3
Heard but unknown and strange garrulity	A2
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Some shrank in terror as their ears discerned	A2
Their own distorted efforts to converse	A3
Some ran in aimless frenzy to and fro	B3
Falling upon the earth with frantic cries	A3
Some stood in gaping wonder nor perceived	A2
The dire calamity which bound them all	S
In one unbroken chain of misery	A2
Some beat their breasts in paroxysmal woe	B3
Some wore the driveling look of idiocy	A2
Some lost their reason and serenely smiled	A2
Some stalked with features imperturbable	S
Finding no tear nor vent for their distress	A3
Some groaned some shrieked some wept in their despair	C2
Relaxing all attempts at vocal speech	P2
Some recognized the face but not the voice	A3
Of some familiar friend and grasped the hand	A2
Spoke with the eyes when words no longer served	A2
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Did'st thou behold that temple which arose	A3
On Mount Moriah's slope the proud result	A2
Of the endeavors of a noble race	A3
Whose tireless energy and wondrous skill	S
In architecture and the various arts	A3
Were famed throughout the world whose nimble hands	A3
Carved out the pillar and the pedestal	S
The column polished and cylindrical	S
The slab and ornamented architrave	O
From Parian marble of unblemished hue	C3
With stately cedars from the sloping sides	A3
Of proud but long denuded Lebanon	I
Erected that superb and marvelous pile	S
Whose wondrous grandeur and imposing form	D3
Correct proportions and true symmetry	A2
And perfect uniformity of shape	E3
Beauty of contour and embellishment	A2
Splendor of finish and magnificence	A3
Excelled the proudest edifice of earth	J
A fitting tribute to the Deity	A2
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Thou hast beheld the triumphs of his skill	S
Touched by the desolating hand of time	D
Crumble disintegrate and pass away	A2
Resolved to pristine particles of dust	A2
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His strongest castle bold and insolent	A2
Of warlike aspect and defiant mien	F3
With wall and rampart unassailable	S
Impregnable to the assaults of man	L
Surrender at the mold's insidious tread	A2
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Thou hast beheld	A2
His palace and his most exalted courts	A3
Bestrewn with fragments of the Peristyle	S
The broken column slab and monolith	G3
O'erhung with pendant moss and slimy mold	A2
Its dismal haunts and gloomy apertures	A3
Become the habitation of the bat	A2
The hissing serpent and the scorpion	I
The basking lizard dull and indolent	A2
And forms of reptile foul and venomous	A3
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The throne where ruled the king with iron sway	A2
Is vacant as the empty wastes of air	C2
Is ruled by desolation and decay	A2
No more the sceptered voice in stern command	A2
Rings through its halls nor can the dazzling flash	H3
Of the tiara and the diadem	Y2
The ensign and insignia of power	M2
The emblazoned crest and jeweled coat of arms	A3
Or proud escutcheon of illustrious name	I3
Excite with envy or inspire with fear	D2
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The boisterous carousal and the sound	A2
Of wassail mirth inebriate and loud	A2
And midnight revelry is hushed and still	S
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Time shifts the scenes	A3
The haughty prince and the most abject slave	O
Who cowered and trembled 'neath his austere glance	A3
The fawning and ignoble sycophant	A2
The courtier and the basest serf have met	A2
On equal terms beneath the silent dust	A2
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From thy celestial 'minions thou hast seen	F3
His proudest temples sink into decay	A2
Grim desolation and desuetude	A2
The silent hush succeed the plaintive hymn	J3
The anthem cease to swell in rhythmic praise	A3
Or vaulted dome re echo with the sound	A2
Of pipe of organ harp and dulcimer	M2
The voice of sacerdotal eloquence	A3
Become as silent as the unborn thought	A2
The fragrant perfume of the frankincense	A3
The scent of swinging censor and of myrrh	M2
Supplanted by foul odors of decay	A2
The sacred flame extinguished and forgot	A2
Its votaries and congregations fled	A2
The forms who ministered and forms who knelt	A2
The burnished altar and the hoary priest	A2
Commingling their atoms in the dust	A2
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Thou too hast heard the clash of hostile arms	A3
The blast of trumpet and the martial tread	A2
The neigh of charger anxious for the fray	A2
The din and the confusion of the fight	A2
The noise and turmoil of contending hosts	A3
The crunch of breaking bones and shrieks of pain	W
The angry challenge and defiant taunt	A2
The cries of rage and curses of despair	C2
The dying groan and gnash of clench ed teeth	K3
The plea for mercy with uplifted arms	A3
As through the bosom plunged the ruthless steel	S
The clank of shackles and the captives groan	G2
As marched the vanquished forth to servitude	A2
To ceaseless toil rewarded by the scourge	V
To stand within the slave marts and endure	L3
The taunts and bear the chains of slavery	A2
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Did'st thou look down with neutral radiance	A3
On that incursion from the Scythian plain	W
A surging multitude beyond the power	M2
Of mental computation and which seemed	A2
A seething mass of spears and shapes of war	M3
A sea of bellicose barbarity	A2
O'erwhelming helpless and ill fated Tyre	K2
With a resistless deluge of the sword	A2
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Or when that vast and uncomputed horde	A2
Swept westward from the steppes of Tartary	K2
With stern Atilla riding at its head	A2
Leaving in ruthless Mongol truculence	A3
Awake both red and blackened by the torch	N3
The scourge perhaps of God perhaps of Hell	S
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Did'st thou not flinch when t'ward the Christian west	A2
The fell invasion of the Saracen	W
Headed its course with crimson scimitar	K2
Supplanting the mild precepts of the Cross	A3
With those of lust of hate and bigotry	K2
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Did'st thou not weep when proud Atlantis sunk	O3
Beneath the surging and engulfing waves	A3
The aftermath of Earth's most tragic shock	P3
Or when the ark upon that greatest flood	A2
Which from the black and pregnant heavens fell	S
For forty days and forty weary nights	A3
Above the ruins of a deluged world	A2
Floated in safety with its living freight	A2
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Did'st Thou look down in idle apathy	K2
When grim Vesuvius from his dormant rest	A2
Awoke in molten fury and o'ercame	I3
With liquid flood and scoriaceous hail	S
The sleeping cities which beneath him lay	A2
Interring with such fiery burial	S
That neither remnant nor inhabitant	A2
Escaped from that both grave and funeral pyre	K2
Nor vestige of their proud magnificence	A3
Rose from the scene with charred and blackened form	I3
And rolling centuries in passing left	A2
But dim remembrance in the minds of men	W
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Did'st thou in age more ancient and remote	A2
Gaze from thy poise with cold complacency	A3
Upon the guilty cities of the plain	W
Surcharged with lust and the extremes of sin	W
Which Holy Writ avers when 'neath the shower	K2
Of well deserved combustion from the skies	A3
They sunk in conflagration with their vice	A3
And perishing to ages yet to come	I3
Bequeathed a foul and blasted heritage	V
An infamous and execrated name	I3
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Art thou to human anguish so inured	A2
That thou hast neither sentiment of grief	Q3
Nor sense of pity for terrestrial ills	A3
Can agonizing and heart rending scenes	A3
Relax thy obdurate and placid face	A3
To semblance of emotion Can man's woes	A3
Excite thy tranquil immobility	A3
To the pathetic look of tenderness	A3
Or touch thy bosom's calm indifference	A3
With profuse throbs of sympathetic ruth	R3
Can'st thou unmoved behold the widow's tears	A3
Or those of orphaned childish innocence	A3
Or those which wondering infant eyes have shed	A2
On unresponsive breasts which nevermore	K2
Throb with maternal warmth and suckle them	I3
Can'st thou with cold unsympathizing light	A2
Illuminate the ruined maid's despair	K2
Without the echo of a lunar groan	W
Hast thou no pang of sorrow or regret	A2
For guilty man nor tear for his distress	A3
Or are the tides within thy moist control	S
The copious weepings of thy mellow lids	A3
Thy sea of teardrops shed for human woes	A3
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Did'st thou behold when that most favored star	K2
Transcending in refulgence all the orbs	A3
Of boundless and bejewelled firmament	A2
With flash of overwhelming brilliancy	A3
Plunged through the wondering heavens whose pale spheres	A3
In contrast dimmed to insignificance	A3
And gliding through the twinkling realms of space	A3
Burst with such splendor as the envious stars	A3
Had never witnessed since the heavens stood	A2
Halting in glory o'er Judea's plain	W
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Halted and burned in stellar reverence	A3
Above a fold where wrapped in swaddling clothes	A3
A new born infant in a manger lay	A2
In humble contrast to the throne of light	A2
He left to tread the thorny paths of earth	J
In undefiled and stainless innocence	A3
Which earth with all her foul iniquities	A3
Might never tarnish nor pollute with sin	W
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Perhaps upon that sage triumvirate	A2
Which journeyed from the famed and affluent East	A2
In regal pomp and rich munificence	A3
To lay their costly presents at His feet	A2
And worship at that new born infant's shrine	W
Thou shed'st thy mellow rays and lit the way	A2
O'er deserts to the hills of Bethlehem	I3
Dividing honors with that prince of stars	A3
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Wert thou a witness on that selfsame night	A2
When humble shepherds on Judea's hills	A3
Watching their flocks with all attentive care	K2
Beheld unwonted grandeur in the skies	A3
The ordinary stars were glittering	S3
In unaccustomed glory and the orbs	A3
Which twinkle in that pale celestial train	W
Which cleaves in twain the ambient universe	A3
Had changed their milky hue to that of gold	A2
But all the forms of stellar brilliancy	A3
Made way for that most bright and luminous	A3
Which glowed with holy radiance which might	A2
Not emanate from aught but sacred star	K2
Dispensing such serene magnificence	A3
That e'en the admiring heavens stood abashed	A2
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At such a sight	A2
Though savoring more of blessing than of curse	A3
Small marvel 'twas their unenlightened minds	A3
Were seized with sudden and peculiar fear	K2
So that their trembling knees together smote	A2
And as they stood	A2
In awestruck trepidation and alarm	I3
The heavens as the bifurcated door	K2
Of some familiar hospitable tent	A2
Parted their gorgeous curtains and disclosed	A2
A multitude of the celestial host	A2
Numerous beyond all efforts to compute	A2
Solemn of countenance yet beautiful	S
Beyond the comprehension of the eye	T3
Surging in such immaculate array	A2
Of various raiment as the stainless white	A2
Of snows which countless centuries have placed	A2
On rugged Ararat's tremendous heights	A3
Were blended in an essence	A3
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Then for a moment's time	I3
The heavens were silent as those forms were fair	K2
Then instantly throughout the realms of light	A2
Was heard a crash in sacred unison	W
As all the trumpets and the harps of heaven	W
And all the varied instruments of earth	J
Had burst in one grand detonating chord	A2
Now rose the quavering vibratory tones	A3
Of flageolet and solitary reed	A2
Now as a blending of all instruments	A3
In echoing harmonics sweet and low	S
In soft reverberating resonance	A3
The voice of cornet and sonorous horn	W
Blent with the warbling accents of the flute	A2
And chime of mellow bells unknown to earth	J
Paean of dulcimer and harpsichord	A2
In combination of concordant tone	W
Melting the stars with dulcet symphony	A3
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But sweeter than those instruments of joy	V
Tuned by angelic fingers rose the strains	A3
Of vocal concord and mellifluence	A3
As swelled in chorus those seraphic throats	A3
In falling cadence and ecstatic flight	A2
Surpassing heaven's grandest melody	A3
In all that appertains to choral song	U3
The acme of celestial harmony	A3
Which angel ears discerned with glad surprise	A3
But sweeter than that song the glad refrain	W
Wafted from angel tongues innumerable	S
To earth and the inhabitants thereof	V3
Peace Peace on Earth the Deity's Good Will	S
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Didst thou not shrink when on Golgotha's crest	A2
Three crosses as three grizzly spectres rose	A3
Spreading their ghastly arms protestingly	S
In silent malediction o'er the scene	W
And even nature paused and stood aghast	A2
In shuddering horror at the awful sight	A2
Relaxing with the trembling earthquake shock	P3
Her sympathetic tension	W
And when the lightning rent the canopy	A3
Of black sepulchral clouds which like a shroud	A2
Enveloped earth on that terrific night	A2
They lit a face compassionate and pure	K2
E'en from beneath the cruel crown of thorns	A3
Glancing in pity kindled not with wrath	W3
At his tormentors those who loved him not	A2
The multitude which surged about the cross	A3
Cursing with accents vile and crying loud	A2
Crucify Him Crucify Him	I3
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Rejected and despised of men	W
Earth which hath ever slain her noblest sons	A3
Slays also her Redeemer	K2
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Creation is but systematized decay	A2
And Change is blazoned on the very skies	A3
As in ephemeral telluric scenes	A3
And through the whole cosmogony of worlds	A3
Is written and rewritten	W
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Thou who hast seen the stately mastodon	W
Roam at his will o'er earth's prolific plains	A3
And the unwieldy megatherium	I3
Dragging his cumbrous disproportioned weight	A2
Through quaternary marsh and stagnant fen	W
Or watched the ichthyosaurus plow the seas	A3
Churning the waters till the glistening foam	I3
Rode on the greenish undulating waves	A3
And huge saurian and reptilian shapes	A3
Amphibious and pelagic swim and crawl	S
Cleaving the waters with tremendous strokes	A3
Writhing with foul contortions in disport	A2
Splashing and laving in the thermal seas	A3
Of the remote and prehistoric past	A2
Thou who hast seen them fail and pass away	A2
Shalt also shine when man has disappeared	A2
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Thou who hast seen the rank luxuriance	A3
Of vegetation flourish and decay	A2
Vanish and pass away insensibly	S
Perish from off the earth which nourished it	A2
And time supplant its rich exuberance	A3
With arid wastes of bleak sterility	A2
Wilt thou look down in silent unconcern	W
When countless eons of denuding time	I3
Have rendered earth as barren as thyself	V3
Bereft of verdure's last habiliment	A2
When men with all their passions and desires	A3
Their strange combines of evil and of good	A2
Their proud achievements and exalted aims	A3
Have passed away forever	K2
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The universe is but a sepulcher	K2
For worlds defunct as earth for living forms	A3
And thou O Moon who hast surveyed all this	A3
Thyself shalt be consumed with fervent heat	A2
For e'en the firmament shall pass away	A2
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Supreme Intelligence	A3
Thou who createst worlds and satellites	A3
And Who canst estimate the universe	A3
Weighing the heavens in Thy balances	A3
Who hast ordained the laws of cosmic space	A3
To guide aright the planetary spheres	A3
Thou Ruler of the infinite and great	A2
Alike of vast and infinitesimal	S
Thou fundamental cause of all that is	A3
In process of creation and decay	A2
In the mutation and the ravages	A3
Sequent of constant lapse and flight of time	I3
Reveal Thy laws that we may follow them	I3
Help us to recognize in all Thy works	A3
Whether of atom or stupendous mass	A3
The hand of Deity	A2

Alfred Castner King

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