Liminary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFGHIHIJKJK LMLMNONOPQPQBRBRSTST UVUWXYXYZA2ZA2B2C2B2 C2D2E2D2E2F2G2F2G2H2 I2H2H2ZH2ZH2J2K2L2K2 BM2BM2GN2GN2O2JO2JP2 JP2JIH2IH2AO2AO2Q2SQ 2SJOJOR2S2R2S2JH2JH2 TT2TT2JU2JU2JV2JV2W2 AW2AThe hollow crystal of my winter dream | A |
and silences where thought for worship white | B |
shimmer'd within the icy mirror gleam | A |
vanishes down the flood of broader light | B |
The royal weft of arduous device | C |
and starr'd with strangest gems my shadowy pride | D |
and ritual of illusive artifice | E |
is shed away leaving the naked side | D |
No more is set within the secret shrine | F |
a wonder wherein day nor night has part | G |
my passing makes the ways of earth divine | F |
with the wild splendours of a mortal heart | G |
A whisper thrills the living fringe of green | H |
on my retreat tiptoe the silence stands | I |
the breathless morn waits till her step be seen | H |
my summer bride new life from nuptial lands | I |
The hidden places of her beauty hold | J |
the savours shed o'er wastes of island air | K |
and her crown'd body's wealth of torrid gold | J |
burns dusky in her summer storm of hair | K |
Her breasts in baffling curves an upward hope | L |
strain towards the lips pain'd with too eager life | M |
and the rich noons faint on each lustrous slope | L |
where thunder hush in the ardent brake is rife | M |
I cannot tell what god is in her gaze | N |
such depths of slumbrous passion drown my breath | O |
but where the charmed shadow clings and stays | N |
Fate cowers before that high disdain of death | O |
Oh take me to thy bosom's sultry beat | P |
steep all my sense in thy long breath of flame | Q |
oppress me with thy summer's heavy heat | P |
consume all me that wears an uncrown'd name | Q |
burn this my flesh to a clear web of light | B |
send thy keen airy spirit to search each vein | R |
that the hard pulse may throb with strong delight | B |
o'ermastering life and life's divinest pain | R |
Then then we twain will seek each farthest way | S |
mingled in radiance over cloud and lea | T |
our joy shall swell the exultant heart of day | S |
our love shall tinge the rose of sky and sea | T |
And we shall know the steep pride of the hills | U |
and the dark meditation of the wood | V |
or quench our rage where the red wine god spills | U |
o'er glowing rocks the madness of his blood | W |
Our link'd approach shall flush the water maid | X |
that dreams her limpid realm with wistful eyes | Y |
our noon tide rest shall haunt her memory's shade | X |
vexing her dim breast with unwonted sighs | Y |
And where our fiercer joys have thrill'd the earth | Z |
shall burst hard stalks and cruel cups that keep | A2 |
strong soul of seasons dead to fill the dearth | Z |
of lesser lives whose dream is dull with sleep | A2 |
And gloriously our summer's reign shall end | B2 |
in some dark pass that leads into the west | C2 |
burnt incense wise each blood shall sweetly blend | B2 |
exhaled in music from the love slain breast | C2 |
some eve whose dragon dying hides the sky | D2 |
and holds the hour on its empurpled wings | E2 |
while pallid seers proclaim the doom day nigh | D2 |
and shuddering nations watch the death of kings | E2 |
See now the time O eve of smoky brown | F2 |
the morbid season of my close content | G2 |
drown'd flame broad swathes of vapour closing down | F2 |
round the clear gaze that pierces vainly pent | G2 |
and knows how vain the hero death that flung | H2 |
far flame against the craven face of dark | I2 |
poor hero heart the minstrel summer sung | H2 |
O brooding hidden over a bitter cark | H2 |
how vain did not the hot strength of the earth | Z |
exude in drifts of colour dwindling | H2 |
to dimmer odour wafts a hearted worth | Z |
the long defeated tribes to altar bring | H2 |
The unslaked caravans of vast desire | J2 |
seeking in furnace sands some fierier rose | K2 |
with deadly heart the red crusades of ire | L2 |
following some dusky king of mighty woes | K2 |
unto a nameless fall in distant fight | B |
such only freedom from the daily mesh | M2 |
spun by the crafty lord of wrong and right | B |
the pride and splendour of rebellious flesh | M2 |
full sated with wild honey of summer's heart | G |
the golden lot of ignominy that cast | N2 |
and craved the honour of a menial part | G |
to follow on bleeding feet nor fell the last | N2 |
how high their pyre blazed with insensate will | O2 |
that the last word of their red tale be told | J |
and o'er their darkening blood a moment still | O2 |
hung on horizon wings the spirit's gold | J |
the ghost of flame in the vast crucible | P2 |
transmuted of some viewless Trismegist | J |
haply the same whose touch inaudible | P2 |
dissolves the lingering leaf to evening mist | J |
Now with the lucid flower cups in their hands | I |
that star the pale fields of Thulean spring | H2 |
and silver from the moon made table lands | I |
of snow the glimmering distance vanishing | H2 |
with opals that engeal the Boreal gleam | A |
and diamond drip of ether's crystal thrill | O2 |
miraculous the cort ges of dream | A |
over the hills of legend gathering fill | O2 |
the imaginary avenues of gloom | Q2 |
up to the watching windows that betray | S |
the House of Contemplation vaulted room | Q2 |
soaring with shade that broods above pale day | S |
pale day that wastes even since morning drain'd | J |
by ambush'd mystery of its wanton breath | O |
see now the time that rises pale unstain'd | J |
the fixed light that charms the fields of death | O |
A little yet a little wait O files | R2 |
obedient to my dumb command the brow | S2 |
may waive its frigid lordliness the wiles | R2 |
of the spent heart becloud it wait and thou | S2 |
dark presence large above the passing world | J |
biding the full hour of the fated stroke | H2 |
ere in the sudden gust of truth be whirl'd | J |
the veils of kindly Maya leaf or smoke | H2 |
let their suspense of smouldering glory be | T |
yet mirror'd in this mind's unruffled pool | T2 |
or e'er beneath the implacable certainty | T |
of icy light and thought's untarnish'd rule | T2 |
the vacant world stand rigid let me yet | J |
this vesper ween I am not all alone | U2 |
and ponder with luxurious regret | J |
over the singing golden morning flown | U2 |
soon soon enough the spirit unreproved | J |
shall on its proud predestin'd circle range | V2 |
in dread indifferent solitude removed | J |
above the poignant pageantry of change | V2 |
and the broad brows whose curves are centuries | W2 |
arise of Isis' carven front supreme | A |
that bids the lucid soul in silence freeze | W2 |
the glittering crystal of my winter dream | A |
Christopher John Brennan
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