The Rising Of The Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJHKLMNFOPH QRHSATTUHH| I did not expect to live in such an unusual moment | A |
| When the God of thunders and of rocky heights | B |
| The Lord of hosts Kyrios Sabaoth | C |
| Would humble people to the quick | D |
| Allowing them to act whatever way they wished | E |
| Leaving to them conclusions saying nothing | F |
| It was a spectacle that was indeed unlike | G |
| The agelong cycle of royal tragedies | H |
| Roads on concrete pillars cities of glass and cast iron | I |
| Airfields larger than tribal dominions | H |
| Suddenly ran short of their essence and disintegrated | J |
| Not in a dream but really for subtracted from themselves | H |
| They could only hold on as do things which should not last | K |
| Out of trees field stones even lemons on the table | L |
| Materiality escaped and their spectrum | M |
| Proved to be a void a haze on a film | N |
| Dispossessed of its objects space was swarming | F |
| Everywhere was nowhere and nowhere everywhere | O |
| Letters in books turned silver pale wobbled and faded | P |
| The hand was not able to trace the palm sign the river sign or the sign of ibis | H |
| A hullabaloo of many tongues proclaimed the mortality of the language | Q |
| A complaint was forbidden as it complained to itself | R |
| People afflicted with an incomprehensible distress | H |
| Were throwing off their clothes on the piazzas so that nakedness might call | S |
| For judgment | A |
| But in vain they were longing after horror pity and anger | T |
| Neither work nor leisure | T |
| Was justified | U |
| Nor the face nor the hair nor the loins | H |
| Nor any existence | H |
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