That Bright Chimeric Beast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDF GHGHIJIJ KLKLMNMO CPAPJKJK QQRBRB| That bright chimeric beast | A |
| Conceived yet never born | B |
| Save in the poet's breast | C |
| The white flanked unicorn | B |
| Never may be shaken | D |
| From his solitude | E |
| Never may be taken | D |
| In any earthly wood | F |
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| That bird forever feathered | G |
| Of its new self the sire | H |
| After aeons weathered | G |
| Reincarnate by fire | H |
| Falcon may not nor eagle | I |
| Swerve from his eyrie | J |
| Nor any crumb inveigle | I |
| Down to an earthly tree | J |
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| That fish of the dread regime | K |
| Invented to become | L |
| The fable and the dream | K |
| Of the Lord's aquarium | L |
| Leviathan the jointed | M |
| Harpoon was never wrought | N |
| By which the Lord's anointed | M |
| Will suffer to be caught | O |
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| Bird of the deathless breast | C |
| Fish of the frantic fin | P |
| That bright chimeric beast | A |
| Flashing the argent skin | P |
| If beasts like these you'd harry | J |
| Plumb then the poet's dream | K |
| Make it your aviary | J |
| Make it your wood and stream | K |
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| There only shall the swish | Q |
| Be heard of the regal fish | Q |
| There like a golden knife | R |
| Dart the feet of the unicorn | B |
| And there death brought to life | R |
| The dead bird be reborn | B |
Countee Cullen
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