Al Aaraaf: Part 01 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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O nothing earthly save the rayA
Thrown back from flowers of Beauty's eyeB
As in those gardens where the dayA
Springs from the gems of CircassyC
O nothing earthly save the thrillD
Of melody in woodland rillD
Or music of the passion heartedE
Joy's voice so peacefully departedE
That like the murmur in the shellF
Its echo dwelleth and will dwellF
O nothing of the dross of oursC
Yet all the beauty all the flowersC
That list our Love and deck our bowersC
Adorn yon world afar afarG
The wandering starG
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'Twas a sweet time for Nesace for thereH
Her world lay lolling on the golden airH
Near four bright suns a temporary restI
An oasis in desert of the blestI
Away away 'mid seas of rays that rollJ
Empyrean splendor o'er th' unchained soulJ
The soul that scarce the billows are so denseC
Can struggle to its destin'd eminenceC
To distant spheres from time to time she rodeK
And late to ours the favour'd one of GodL
But now the ruler of an anchor'd realmM
She throws aside the sceptre leaves the helmM
And amid incense and high spiritual hymnsC
Laves in quadruple light her angel limbsC
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Now happiest loveliest in yon lovely EarthN
Whence sprang the Idea of Beauty into birthN
Falling in wreaths thro' many a startled starG
Like woman's hair 'mid pearls until afarG
It lit on hills Achaian and there dweltO
She look'd into Infinity and kneltO
Rich clouds for canopies about her curledP
Fit emblems of the model of her worldP
Seen but in beauty not impeding sightQ
Of other beauty glittering thro' the lightQ
A wreath that twined each starry form aroundR
And all the opal'd air in color boundR
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All hurriedly she knelt upon a bedS
Of flowers of lilies such as rear'd the headS
On the fair Capo Deucato and sprangT
So eagerly around about to hangT
Upon the flying footsteps of deep prideU
Of her who lov'd a mortal and so diedU
The Sephalica budding with young beesC
Uprear'd its purple stem around her kneesC
And gemmy flower of Trebizond misnam'dU
Inmate of highest stars where erst it sham'dU
All other loveliness its honied dewU
The fabled nectar that the heathen knewU
Deliriously sweet was dropp'd from HeavenV
And fell on gardens of the unforgivenV
In Trebizond and on a sunny flowerW
So like its own above that to this hourW
It still remaineth torturing the beeX
With madness and unwonted reverieX
In Heaven and all its environs the leafY
And blossom of the fairy plant in griefY
Disconsolate linger grief that hangs her headU
Repenting follies that full long have fledU
Heaving her white breast to the balmy airH
Like guilty beauty chasten'd and more fairH
Nyctanthes too as sacred as the lightU
She fears to perfume perfuming the nightU
And Clytia pondering between many a sunV
While pettish tears adown her petals runV
And that aspiring flower that sprang on EarthN
And died ere scarce exalted into birthN
Bursting its odorous heart in spirit to wingZ
Its way to Heaven from garden of a kingZ
And Valisnerian lotus thither flownA2
From struggling with the waters of the RhoneA2
And thy most lovely purple perfume ZanteU
Isola d'oro Fior di LevanteU
And the Nelumbo bud that floats for everW
With Indian Cupid down the holy riverW
Fair flowers and fairy to whose care is givenV
To bear the Goddess' song in odors up to HeavenV
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Spirit that dwellest whereH
In the deep skyB
The terrible and fairH
In beauty vieB
Beyond the line of blueU
The boundary of the starG
Which turneth at the viewU
Of thy barrier and thy barG
Of the barrier overgoneV
By the comets who were castU
From their pride and from their throneV
To be drudges till the lastU
To be carriers of fireW
The red fire of their heartU
With speed that may not tireW
And with pain that shall not partU
Who livest that we knowV
In Eternity we feelB2
But the shadow of whose browC2
What spirit shall revealB2
Tho' the beings whom thy NesaceC
Thy messenger hath knownV
Have dream'd for thy InfinityU
A model of their ownV
Thy will is done O GodU
The star hath ridden highB
Thro' many a tempest but she rodeU
Beneath thy burning eyeB
And here in thought to theeU
In thought that can aloneV
Ascend thy empire and so beU
A partner of thy throneV
By winged FantasyU
My embassy is givenV
Till secrecy shall knowledge beU
In the environs of HeavenV
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She ceas'd and buried then her burning cheekD2
Abash'd amid the lilies there to seekD2
A shelter from the fervor of His eyeB
For the stars trembled at the DeityU
She stirr'd not breath'd not for a voice was thereH
How solemnly pervading the calm airH
A sound of silence on the startled earE2
Which dreamy poets name the music of the sphereF2
Ours is a world of words Quiet we callG2
Silence which is the merest word of allG2
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All Nature speaks and ev'n ideal thingsC
Flap shadowy sounds from the visionary wingsC
But ah not so when thus in realms on highB
The eternal voice of God is passing byB
And the red winds are withering in the skyB
What tho' in worlds which sightless cycles runV
Link'd to a little system and one sunV
Where all my love is folly and the crowdU
Still think my terrors but the thunder cloudU
The storm the earthquake and the ocean wrathH2
Ah will they cross me in my angrier pathH2
What tho' in worlds which own a single sunV
The sands of time grow dimmer as they runV
Yet thine is my resplendency so givenV
To bear my secrets thro' the upper HeavenV
Leave tenantless thy crystal home and flyB
With all thy train athwart the moony skyB
Apart like fire flies in Sicilian nightU
And wing to other worlds another lightU
Divulge the secrets of thy embassyU
To the proud orbs that twinkle and so beU
To ev'ry heart a barrier and a banV
Lest the stars totter in the guilt of manV
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Up rose the maiden in the yellow nightU
The single mooned eve on earth we plightU
Our faith to one love and one moon adoreI2
The birth place of young Beauty had no moreI2
As sprang that yellow star from downy hoursC
Up rose the maiden from her shrine of flowersC
And bent o'er sheeny mountain and dim plainV
Her way but left not yet her Therasaean reignV

Edgar Allan Poe



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