Plutonian Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDECFGDHIJIKLMBBBNL LFCILILL OKCIBIACLKCDCIIIBBLL FPICCBCBQKRDBIIILLCI BLCIIIKDIILLIALIBIIB LILKLJBIDLLLJCLBBBLB LBQJ A LILCSCTBICJBLCCLLLFC KUCIII A LIKIILLPCICBIBLVCIWI | A |
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What new element before us unborn in nature Is there | B |
a new thing under the Sun | C |
At last inquisitive Whitman a modern epic detonative | D |
Scientific theme | E |
First penned unmindful by Doctor Seaborg with poison | C |
ous hand named for Death's planet through the | F |
sea beyond Uranus | G |
whose chthonic ore fathers this magma teared Lord of | D |
Hades Sire of avenging Furies billionaire Hell | H |
King worshipped once | I |
with black sheep throats cut priests's face averted from | J |
underground mysteries in single temple at Eleusis | I |
Spring green Persephone nuptialed to his inevitable | K |
Shade Demeter mother of asphodel weeping dew | L |
her daughter stored in salty caverns under white snow | M |
black hail grey winter rain or Polar ice immemor | B |
able seasons before | B |
Fish flew in Heaven before a Ram died by the starry | B |
bush before the Bull stamped sky and earth | N |
or Twins inscribed their memories in clay or Crab'd | L |
flood | L |
washed memory from the skull or Lion sniffed the | F |
lilac breeze in Eden | C |
Before the Great Year began turning its twelve signs | I |
ere constellations wheeled for twenty four thousand | L |
sunny years | I |
slowly round their axis in Sagittarius one hundred | L |
sixty seven thousand times returning to this night | L |
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Radioactive Nemesis were you there at the beginning | O |
black dumb tongueless unsmelling blast of Disil | K |
lusion | C |
I manifest your Baptismal Word after four billion years | I |
I guess your birthday in Earthling Night I salute your | B |
dreadful presence last majestic as the Gods | I |
Sabaot Jehova Astapheus Adonaeus Elohim Iao | A |
Ialdabaoth Aeon from Aeon born ignorant in an | C |
Abyss of Light | L |
Sophia's reflections glittering thoughtful galaxies whirl | K |
pools of starspume silver thin as hairs of Einstein | C |
Father Whitman I celebrate a matter that renders Self | D |
oblivion | C |
Grand Subject that annihilates inky hands pages' | I |
prayers old orators' inspired Immortalities | I |
I begin your chant openmouthed exhaling into spacious | I |
sky over silent mills at Hanford Savannah River | B |
Rocky Flats Pantex Burlington Albuquerque | B |
I yell thru Washington South Carolina Colorado | L |
Texas Iowa New Mexico | L |
Where nuclear reactors creat a new Thing under the | F |
Sun where Rockwell war plants fabricate this death | P |
stuff trigger in nitrogen baths | I |
Hanger Silas Mason assembles the terrified weapon | C |
secret by ten thousands where Manzano Moun | C |
tain boasts to store | B |
its dreadful decay through two hundred forty millenia | C |
while our Galaxy spirals around its nebulous core | B |
I enter your secret places with my mind I speak with | Q |
your presence I roar your Lion Roar with mortal | K |
mouth | R |
One microgram inspired to one lung ten pounds of | D |
heavy metal dust adrift slow motion over grey | B |
Alps | I |
the breadth of the planet how long before your radiance | I |
speeds blight and death to sentient beings | I |
Enter my body or not I carol my spirit inside you | L |
Unnaproachable Weight | L |
O heavy heavy Element awakened I vocalize your con | C |
sciousness to six worlds | I |
I chant your absolute Vanity Yeah monster of Anger | B |
birthed in fear O most | L |
Ignorant matter ever created unnatural to Earth Delusion | C |
of metal empires | I |
Destroyer of lying Scientists Devourer of covetous | I |
Generals Incinerator of Armies Melter of Wars | I |
Judgement of judgements Divine Wind over vengeful | K |
nations Molester of Presidents Death Scandal of | D |
Capital politics Ah civilizations stupidly indus | I |
trious | I |
Canker Hex on multitudes learned or illiterate Manu | L |
factured Spectre of human reason O solidified | L |
imago of practicioner in Black Arts | I |
I dare your reality I challenge your very being I | A |
publish your cause and effect | L |
I turn the wheel of Mind on your three hundred tons | I |
Your name enters mankind's ear I embody your | B |
ultimate powers | I |
My oratory advances on your vaunted Mystery This | I |
breath dispels your braggart fears I sing your | B |
form at last | L |
behind your concrete iron walls inside your fortress | I |
of rubber translucent silicon shields in filtered | L |
cabinets and baths of lathe oil | K |
My voice resounds through robot glove boxes ignot | L |
cans and echoes in electric vaults inert of atmo | J |
sphere | B |
I enter with spirit out loud into your fuel rod drums | I |
underground on soundless thrones and beds of | D |
lead | L |
O density This weightless anthem trumpets transcendent | L |
through hidden chambers and breaks through | L |
iron doors into the Infernal Room | J |
Over your dreadful vibration this measured harmony | C |
floats audible these jubilant tones are honey and | L |
milk and wine sweet water | B |
Poured on the stone black floor these syllables are | B |
barley groats I scatter on the Reactor's core | B |
I call your name with hollow vowels I psalm your Fate | L |
close by my breath near deathless ever at your | B |
side | L |
to Spell your destiny I set this verse prophetic on your | B |
mausoleum walls to seal you up Eternally with | Q |
Diamond Truth O doomed Plutonium | J |
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II | A |
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The Bar surveys Plutonian history from midnight | L |
lit with Mercury Vapor streetlamps till in dawn's | I |
early light | L |
he contemplates a tranquil politic spaced out between | C |
Nations' thought forms proliferating bureaucratic | S |
horrific arm'd Satanic industries projected sudden | C |
with Five Hundred Billion Dollar Strength | T |
around the world same time this text is set in Boulder | B |
Colorado before front range of Rocky Mountains | I |
twelve miles north of Rocky Flats Nuclear Facility in | C |
United States of North America Western Hemi | J |
sphere | B |
of planet Earth six months and fourteen days around | L |
our Solar System in a Spiral Galaxy | C |
the local year after Dominion of the last God nineteen | C |
hundred seventy eight | L |
Completed as yellow hazed dawn clouds brighten East | L |
Denver city white below | L |
Blue sky transparent rising empty deep spacious to a | F |
morning star high over the balcony | C |
above some autos sat with wheels to curb downhill | K |
from Flatiron's jagged pine ridge | U |
sunlit mountain meadows sloped to rust red sandstone | C |
cliffs above brick townhouse roofs | I |
as sparrows waked whistling through Marine Street's | I |
summer green leafed trees | I |
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III | A |
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This ode to you O Poets and Orators to come you | L |
father Whitman as I join your side you Congress | I |
and American people | K |
you present meditators spiritual friends teachers | I |
you O Master of the Diamond Arts | I |
Take this wheel of syllables in hand these vowels and | L |
consonants to breath's end | L |
take this inhalation of black poison to your heart breath | P |
out this blessing from your breast on our creation | C |
forests cities oceans deserts rocky flats and mountains | I |
in the Ten Directions pacify with exhalation | C |
enrich this Plutonian Ode to explode its empty thunder | B |
through earthen thought worlds | I |
Magnetize this howl with heartless compassion destroy | B |
this mountain of Plutonium with ordinary mind | L |
and body speech | V |
thus empower this Mind guard spirit gone out gone | C |
out gone beyond gone beyond me Wake space | I |
so Ah | W |
Allen Ginsberg
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