The Palace Of Pan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBDEFEEFGHGGHIJIIJ KLKMLNONNIEPEEPFNFFN FQFFQARAASTUTTUTNTTN VWVVWInscribed to my Mother | A |
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September all glorious with gold as a king | B |
In the radiance of triumph attired | C |
Outlightening the summer outsweetening the spring | B |
Broods wide on the woodlands with limitless wing | B |
A presence of all men desired | D |
Far eastward and westward the sun coloured lands | E |
Smile warm as the light on them smiles | F |
And statelier than temples upbuilded with hands | E |
Tall column by column the sanctuary stands | E |
Of the pine forest's infinite aisles | F |
Mute worship too fervent for praise or for prayer | G |
Possesses the spirit with peace | H |
Fulfilled with the breath of the luminous air | G |
The fragrance the silence the shadows as fair | G |
As the rays that recede or increase | H |
Ridged pillars that redden aloft and aloof | I |
With never a branch for a nest | J |
Sustain the sublime indivisible roof | I |
To the storm and the sun in his majesty proof | I |
And awful as waters at rest | J |
Man's hand hath not measured the height of them thought | K |
May measure not awe may not know | L |
In its shadow the woofs of the woodland are wrought | K |
As a bird is the sun in the toils of them caught | M |
And the flakes of it scattered as snow | L |
As the shreds of a plumage of gold on the ground | N |
The sun flakes by multitudes lie | O |
Shed loose as the petals of roses discrowned | N |
On the floors of the forest engilt and embrowned | N |
And reddened afar and anigh | I |
Dim centuries with darkling inscrutable hands | E |
Have reared and secluded the shrine | P |
For gods that we know not and kindled as brands | E |
On the altar the years that are dust and their sands | E |
Time's glass has forgotten for sign | P |
A temple whose transepts are measured by miles | F |
Whose chancel has morning for priest | N |
Whose floor work the foot of no spoiler defiles | F |
Whose musical silence no music beguiles | F |
No festivals limit its feast | N |
The noon's ministration the night's and the dawn's | F |
Conceals not reveals not for man | Q |
On the slopes of the herbless and blossomless lawns | F |
Some track of a nymph's or some trail of a faun's | F |
To the place of the slumber of Pan | Q |
Thought kindled and quickened by worship and wonder | A |
To rapture too sacred for fear | R |
On the ways that unite or divide them in sunder | A |
Alone may discern if about them or under | A |
Be token or trace of him here | S |
With passionate awe that is deeper than panic | T |
The spirit subdued and unshaken | U |
Takes heed of the godhead terrene and Titanic | T |
Whose footfall is felt on the breach of volcanic | T |
Sharp steeps that their fire has forsaken | U |
By a spell more serene than the dim necromantic | T |
Dead charms of the past and the night | N |
Or the terror that lurked in the noon to make frantic | T |
Where Etna takes shape from the limbs of gigantic | T |
Dead gods disanointed of might | N |
The spirit made one with the spirit whose breath | V |
Makes noon in the woodland sublime | W |
Abides as entranced in a presence that saith | V |
Things loftier than life and serener than death | V |
Triumphant and silent as time | W |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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