Chant Of The Changing Hours Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCCCCCC DABEAB CDCCCCCC ABAFBCCCCCCC AB ACBCCDCCDCC DDBDBCCCCCCC CCCCCCC

The Hours passed by a fleet confused crowdA
With wafture of blown garments bright as fireB
Light light of foot and laughing morning browedA
And where they trod the jonquil and the briarB
Thrilled into jocund life the dreaming dellsC
Waked to a morrice chime of jostled bellsC
They danced they danced to piping such asC
flingsC
The garnered music of a million SpringsC
Into one single keener ecstasyC
One paused and shouted to my questioningsC
Lo I am Youth I bid thee follow meC
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The Hours passed by they paced great lords andD
proudA
Crowned on with sunlight robed in rich attireB
Before their conquering word the brute deedE
bowedA
And Ariel fancies served their large desireB
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They spake and roused the mused soul that dwellsC
In dust or smiling shaped new heavens andD
hellsC
Dethroned old gods and made blind beggars kingsC
And what art thou I cried to one that bringsC
His mistress for a brooch the GalaxyC
I am the plumed Thought that soars and singsC
Lo I am Song I bid thee follow meC
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The Hours passed by with veiled eyes endowedA
Of dream and parted lips that scarce suspireB
To breathing dusk and arrowy moonlight vowedA
South wind and shadowy grove and murmuringF
lyreB
Swaying they moved as drows'd of wizard spellsC
Or tranc'd with sight of recent miraclesC
And yet they trembled down their folded wingsC
Quivered the hint of sweet withholden thingsC
Ah bitter sweet in their intensityC
One paused and said unto my wonderingsC
Lo I am Love I bid thee follow meC
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The Hours passed by through huddled cities loudA
With witless hate and stale with stinking mireB
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So cowled monks might march with bier and shroudA
Down streets plague spotted toward some cleansC
ing pyreB
Yet lo strange lilies bloomed in lightless cellsC
And passionate spirits burst their clayey shellsC
And sang the stricken hope that bleeds andD
clingsC
Earth's bruised heart beat in the throbbing stringsC
And joy still struggled through the threnodyD
One stern Hour said unto my marvelingsC
Lo I am Life I bid thee follow meC
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The Hours passed by the stumbling hours andD
cowedD
Uncertain prone to tears and childish ireB
The wavering hours that drift like any cloudD
At whim of winds or fortunate or direB
The feeble shapes that any chance expellsC
Their wisdom useless lacking the blood that swellsC
The tensed vein the hot swift tide that stingsC
With life Ah wise but naked to the slingsC
Of fate and plagued of youthful memoryC
A cracked voice broke upon my pityingsC
Lo I am Age I bid thee follow meC
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Ah Youth we dallied by the babbling wellsC
Where April all her lyric secret tellsC
Ah Song we sped our bold imaginingsC
As far as yon red planet's triple ringsC
O Life O Love I followed followed theeC
There waits one word to end my journeyingsC
Lo I am Death I bid thee follow meC

Don Marquis



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