In Excelsis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EF GHIJKLEEMC NNAOPQRIST UVIOAW BEOXEAAYZA2| You you | A |
| Your shadow is sunlight on a plate of silver | B |
| Your footsteps the seeding place of lilies | C |
| Your hands moving a chime of bells across a windless air | D |
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| The movement of your hands is the long golden running of light from a rising sun | E |
| It is the hopping of birds upon a garden path | F |
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| As the perfume of jonquils you come forth in the morning | G |
| Young horses are not more sudden than your thoughts | H |
| Your words are bees about a pear tree | I |
| Your fancies are the gold and black striped wasps buzzing among red apples | J |
| I drink your lips | K |
| I eat the whiteness of your hands and feet | L |
| My mouth is open | E |
| As a new jar I am empty and open | E |
| Like white water are you who fill the cup of my mouth | M |
| Like a brook of water thronged with lilies | C |
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| You are frozen as the clouds | N |
| You are far and sweet as the high clouds | N |
| I dare to reach to you | A |
| I dare to touch the rim of your brightness | O |
| I leap beyond the winds | P |
| I cry and shout | Q |
| For my throat is keen as is a sword | R |
| Sharpened on a hone of ivory | I |
| My throat sings the joy of my eyes | S |
| The rushing gladness of my love | T |
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| How has the rainbow fallen upon my heart | U |
| How have I snared the seas to lie in my fingers | V |
| And caught the sky to be a cover for my head How have you come to dwell with me | I |
| Compassing me with the four circles of your mystic lightness | O |
| So that I say Glory Glory and bow before you | A |
| As to a shrine | W |
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| Do I tease myself that morning is morning and a day after | B |
| Do I think the air is a condescension | E |
| The earth a politeness | O |
| Heaven a boon deserving thanks | X |
| So you air earth heaven | E |
| I do not thank you | A |
| I take you | A |
| I live | Y |
| And those things which I say in consequence | Z |
| Are rubies mortised in a gate of stone | A2 |
Amy Lowell
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