The Awakening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDCDCC EFEFGHH GGHIJJI KLKLLKMCMC| The steam the reek the fume of prayer | A |
| Blown outward for a million years | B |
| Becomes a mist between the spheres | B |
| And waking Sentience struggles there | A |
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| Prayer still creates the boon we pray | C |
| And gods we've hoped for from those hopes | D |
| Will gain sufficient form one day | C |
| And in full godhood storm the slopes | D |
| Where ancient Chaos stark and gray | C |
| Already trembles for his sway | C |
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| When that the restless worlds would fly | E |
| Their wish created rapid wings | F |
| But not till aeons had passed by | E |
| With dower of many idler things | F |
| And when dumb flesh demanded speech | G |
| Speech struggled to the lips at last | H |
| Now the unpeopled Void and vast | H |
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| Clean to that uttermost blank beach | G |
| Whereto the boldest thought may reach | G |
| That voyages from the vaguest past | H |
| Dim realm and ultimate of space | I |
| Is vexed and troubled stirs and shakes | J |
| In prescience of a god that wakes | J |
| Born of man's wish to see God's face | I |
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| The endless groping dumb desires | K |
| The climbing incense thick and sweet | L |
| The lovely purpose that aspires | K |
| The wraiths of vapor wing'd and fleet | L |
| That rise and run with eager feet | L |
| Forth from a myriad altar fires | K |
| All these become a mist that fills | M |
| The vales and chasms nebular | C |
| A shaping Soul that moves and thrills | M |
| The wastes between red star and star | C |
Don Marquis
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