Ode To Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACDDAEDEAFFAAGFGG FFHFIHIF FFFFAJFJAAFKLMKMLAAF AFANNOOF AKKAFAAAFADDPQPAAQFI FFFIF| O woven fabric and bright web of sound | A |
| Whose threads are magical | B |
| And with swift weaving thrall | C |
| And hold the spirit bound | A |
| We may not know whence thy strange sorceries fall | C |
| Whether they be Earth's voices wild and strong | D |
| Her high and perfect song | D |
| Or broken dreams of higher worlds unfound | A |
| For lo thou art as dreams | E |
| And to thy realm all hidden things belong | D |
| All fugitive and evanescent gleams | E |
| The soul hath vainly sought | A |
| All mystic immanence | F |
| All visions of ungrasped magnificence | F |
| And great ideals pinnacled in thought | A |
| All paths with marvel fraught | A |
| That lead to lands obscure | G |
| For lo upon thy road of sound we pass | F |
| Seeking thy magic lure | G |
| To vales mist implicated and unsure | G |
| Where all seems strange as visions in a glass | F |
| And wonder haunted hills | F |
| Where Beauty is an echo and a dream | H |
| In sighing pines and rills | F |
| Clouded and deep with imaged tree and sky | I |
| And where bright rivers gleam | H |
| Past cities towering high | I |
| Each wonderful as some cloud fantasy | F |
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| Thou looseneth the bodage of the years | F |
| Making the spirit free | F |
| Of all sublunar joys and fears | F |
| Who mounts on thine imperious wings shall see | F |
| The ways of life as threads of day and night | A |
| Serene above their change | J |
| His eyes shall know but far transcendant things | F |
| His ears shall hark but voices free and strange | J |
| Vast seas of outer light | A |
| Shall break upon his sight | A |
| Eternal winds shall touch him with their wings | F |
| His heart shall thrill | K |
| To larger purer joy and grief more deep | L |
| Than earth may know | M |
| And e'en as dews of morning fill | K |
| The opened flower into his soul shall flow | M |
| High melodies like tears that angels weep | L |
| Then shall he penetrate | A |
| The veils and outer barriers of sound | A |
| And near the soul of melody | F |
| Where rapt in aural splendors ultimate | A |
| His soul shall see | F |
| The marvel and the glory that surround | A |
| Eternal Beauty's shrine | N |
| And catch afar the glint divine | N |
| Of her moon colored robe or haply hear | O |
| With world oblivious ear | O |
| Some echo of her voice's mystery | F |
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| Thou hast Love's power to find | A |
| The soul's most secret chords that else were still | K |
| And stir'st them till they thrill | K |
| Disclosed to least faint movements of thy wind | A |
| Thine aural sorcery | F |
| O'erwhelms the heart as sunset storms the sight | A |
| For thou art Beauty bodied forth in sound | A |
| Her colors bright | A |
| And diverse forms expressed in harmony | F |
| Within thy bound | A |
| The flare of morning is become a song | D |
| And tree and flower a music sweet and long | D |
| And in thy speech | P |
| The power and majesty that swing | Q |
| Planet and sun and each | P |
| Dim atom of the system manifest | A |
| Become articulate expressed | A |
| Like ocean in the brooklet's whispering | Q |
| Beyond the woof of finite things | F |
| Thy threads of wonder deep entangled lie | I |
| Time's intertexturings | F |
| Within Eternity | F |
| With Song mayhap to be his memories | F |
| For Beauty borders nigh | I |
| The ultimate eternal Verities | F |
Clark Ashton Smith
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