The Choir And Music Of Solitude And Silence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBBHIJFBKBLB MKK NFNOFFF BPCQQQ| Silence is a great blue bell | A |
| Swinging and ringing tinkling and singing | B |
| In measure's pleasure and in the supple symmetry | C |
| of the soaring of the immense intense wings | D |
| glinting against | E |
| All the blue radiance above us and within us hidden | F |
| Save for the stars sparking distant and unheard in their | G |
| singing | B |
| And this is the first meaning of the famous saying | B |
| The stars sang They are the white birds of silence | H |
| And the meaning of the difficult famous saying that the | I |
| sons and daughters of morning sang | J |
| Meant and means that they were and they are the children | F |
| of God and morning | B |
| Delighting in the lights of becoming and the houses of | K |
| being | B |
| Taking pleasure in measure and excess in listening as in | L |
| seeing | B |
| - | |
| Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage | M |
| Courage is the most desperate admirable and noble kind of | K |
| love | K |
| - | |
| So that when the great blue bell of silence is stilled and | N |
| stopped or broken | F |
| By the babel and chaos of desire unrequited irritated and | N |
| frustrated | O |
| When the heart has opened and when the heart has spoken | F |
| Not of the purity and symmetry of gratification but action | F |
| of insatiable distraction's dissatisfaction | F |
| - | |
| Then the heart says in all its blindness and faltering | B |
| emptiness | P |
| There is no God Because I am hope And hope must be | C |
| fed | Q |
| And then the great blue bell of silence is deafened dumbed | Q |
| and has become the tomb of the living dead | Q |
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