Interlude: The Window And The Hearth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHBBII JK LLGGMMNNGGIIBBGGOOGG GGPPQQGG| Twice now that lucid fiction of the pane | A |
| dissolves the sphere that winter's crystal bane | A |
| still charm'd to glass the sad metempsychose | B |
| and futile ages of the suffering rose | B |
| what in its halt the weary mood might show | C |
| Earth stirs in me that stirs with roots below | C |
| and distant nerves shrink with the lilac mist | D |
| of perfume blossom'd round the lure that kist | D |
| is known hard burn o'erflaked and cruel sting | E |
| I would this old illusion of the spring | E |
| might perish once with all her airs that fawn | F |
| and traitor roses of the wooing dawn | F |
| for none hath known the magic dream of gold | G |
| come sooth since that first surge of light outroll'd | G |
| heroic broke the august and mother sleep | H |
| and foam'd and azure was the rearward deep | H |
| and Eden afloat among the virgin boughs | B |
| fused song jewel sudden and flesh was blithe with vows | B |
| to tread divine under the naked air | I |
| nor knew alas self doom'd thro' time to bear | I |
| lewd summer's dusty mock and roses' fall | J |
| and cynic spring returning virginal | K |
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| Chimaera writhes beside the tragic flame | L |
| of the old hearth her starting jaws proclaim | L |
| a silent cry the craven world's attaint | G |
| Her vans that beat against a hard constraint | G |
| leaps as the coals jet in a moment spasm | M |
| yet their taut ribs hurt not the serpent chasm | M |
| of shade that slips swift to its absent den | N |
| to settle grimlier at her throat again | N |
| And starward were their prison roof increas'd | G |
| no sun that bathes him for a dewy east | G |
| would light her mail above the tainted air | I |
| a meteor dazzling gem but the red flare | I |
| kindle disastrous on our burning eyes | B |
| from where the sullen embers agonize | B |
| once the heart's rose flusht dream of living gold | G |
| Therefore her croup thro' many a lapsing fold | G |
| is bound into the iron's night to check | O |
| the frenzy that contorts her charging neck | O |
| her life is flitting with the fitful red | G |
| splashing her flank as 'twere her courage bled | G |
| to curdle with the void whose metal cold | G |
| shall seal her gone a block no art shall mould | G |
| And now the shining tongues that sprang to lick | P |
| the obscene blackness in are tarnisht thick | P |
| insidiously thro' each blank pane the dark | Q |
| invades from space vast cemetery one spark | Q |
| flies up the lessen'd ghost of flame her flight | G |
| stiffens and is a settled piece of night | G |
Christopher John Brennan
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