Free Fantasia On Japanese Themes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HHIJ KKKLM NKKIOPK KQRKSKTMKUR UMVK WJKXYKEKKKKGP MJKK| All the afternoon there has been a chirping of birds | A |
| And the sun lies warm and still on the western sides of swollen branches | B |
| There is no wind | C |
| Even the little twigs at the ends of the branches do not move | D |
| And the needles of the pines are solid | E |
| Bands of inarticulated blackness | F |
| Against the blue white sky | G |
| - | |
| Still but alert | H |
| And my heart is still and alert | H |
| Passive with sunshine | I |
| Avid of adventure | J |
| - | |
| I would experience new emotions | K |
| Submit to strange enchantments | K |
| Bend to influences | K |
| Bizarre exotic | L |
| Fresh with burgeoning | M |
| - | |
| I would climb a sacred mountain | N |
| Struggle with other pilgrims up a steep path through pine trees | K |
| Above to the smooth treeless slopes | K |
| And prostrate myself before a painted shrine | I |
| Beating my hands upon the hot earth | O |
| Quieting my eyes upon the distant sparkle | P |
| Of the faint spring sea | K |
| - | |
| I would recline upon a balcony | K |
| In purple curving folds of silk | Q |
| And my dress should be silvered with a pattern | R |
| Of butterflies and swallows | K |
| And the black band of my obi | S |
| Should flash with gold circular threads | K |
| And glitter when I moved | T |
| I would lean against the railing | M |
| While you sang to me of wars | K |
| Past and to come | U |
| Sang and played the samisen | R |
| - | |
| Perhaps I would beat a little hand drum | U |
| In time to your singing | M |
| Perhaps I would only watch the play of light | V |
| Upon the hilt of your two swords | K |
| - | |
| I would sit in a covered boat | W |
| Rocking slowly to the narrow waves of a river | J |
| While above us an arc of moving lanterns | K |
| Curved a bridge | X |
| A hiss of gold | Y |
| Blooming out of darkness | K |
| Rockets exploded | E |
| And died in a soft dripping of colored stars | K |
| We would float between the high trestles | K |
| And drift away from other boats | K |
| Until the rockets flared soundless | K |
| And their falling stars hung silent in the sky | G |
| Like wistaria clusters above the ancient entrance of a temple | P |
| - | |
| I would anything | M |
| Rather than this cold paper | J |
| With outside the quiet son on the sides of burgeoning branches | K |
| And inside only my books | K |
Amy Lowell
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