Al Aaraaf: Part 01 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEEFFCCCGG HHIIJJCCKLMMCC NNGGOOPPQQRR SSTTUUCCUUUUVVWWXXYY UUHHUUVVNNZZA2A2UUWW VV HBHBUGUGVUVUWUWUVB2C 2B2CVUVUBUBUVUVUVUV D2D2BUHHE2F2G2G2 CCBBBVVUUH2H2VVVVBBU UUUVV UUI2I2CCVVO nothing earthly save the ray | A |
Thrown back from flowers of Beauty's eye | B |
As in those gardens where the day | A |
Springs from the gems of Circassy | C |
O nothing earthly save the thrill | D |
Of melody in woodland rill | D |
Or music of the passion hearted | E |
Joy's voice so peacefully departed | E |
That like the murmur in the shell | F |
Its echo dwelleth and will dwell | F |
O nothing of the dross of ours | C |
Yet all the beauty all the flowers | C |
That list our Love and deck our bowers | C |
Adorn yon world afar afar | G |
The wandering star | G |
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'Twas a sweet time for Nesace for there | H |
Her world lay lolling on the golden air | H |
Near four bright suns a temporary rest | I |
An oasis in desert of the blest | I |
Away away 'mid seas of rays that roll | J |
Empyrean splendor o'er th' unchained soul | J |
The soul that scarce the billows are so dense | C |
Can struggle to its destin'd eminence | C |
To distant spheres from time to time she rode | K |
And late to ours the favour'd one of God | L |
But now the ruler of an anchor'd realm | M |
She throws aside the sceptre leaves the helm | M |
And amid incense and high spiritual hymns | C |
Laves in quadruple light her angel limbs | C |
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Now happiest loveliest in yon lovely Earth | N |
Whence sprang the Idea of Beauty into birth | N |
Falling in wreaths thro' many a startled star | G |
Like woman's hair 'mid pearls until afar | G |
It lit on hills Achaian and there dwelt | O |
She look'd into Infinity and knelt | O |
Rich clouds for canopies about her curled | P |
Fit emblems of the model of her world | P |
Seen but in beauty not impeding sight | Q |
Of other beauty glittering thro' the light | Q |
A wreath that twined each starry form around | R |
And all the opal'd air in color bound | R |
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All hurriedly she knelt upon a bed | S |
Of flowers of lilies such as rear'd the head | S |
On the fair Capo Deucato and sprang | T |
So eagerly around about to hang | T |
Upon the flying footsteps of deep pride | U |
Of her who lov'd a mortal and so died | U |
The Sephalica budding with young bees | C |
Uprear'd its purple stem around her knees | C |
And gemmy flower of Trebizond misnam'd | U |
Inmate of highest stars where erst it sham'd | U |
All other loveliness its honied dew | U |
The fabled nectar that the heathen knew | U |
Deliriously sweet was dropp'd from Heaven | V |
And fell on gardens of the unforgiven | V |
In Trebizond and on a sunny flower | W |
So like its own above that to this hour | W |
It still remaineth torturing the bee | X |
With madness and unwonted reverie | X |
In Heaven and all its environs the leaf | Y |
And blossom of the fairy plant in grief | Y |
Disconsolate linger grief that hangs her head | U |
Repenting follies that full long have fled | U |
Heaving her white breast to the balmy air | H |
Like guilty beauty chasten'd and more fair | H |
Nyctanthes too as sacred as the light | U |
She fears to perfume perfuming the night | U |
And Clytia pondering between many a sun | V |
While pettish tears adown her petals run | V |
And that aspiring flower that sprang on Earth | N |
And died ere scarce exalted into birth | N |
Bursting its odorous heart in spirit to wing | Z |
Its way to Heaven from garden of a king | Z |
And Valisnerian lotus thither flown | A2 |
From struggling with the waters of the Rhone | A2 |
And thy most lovely purple perfume Zante | U |
Isola d'oro Fior di Levante | U |
And the Nelumbo bud that floats for ever | W |
With Indian Cupid down the holy river | W |
Fair flowers and fairy to whose care is given | V |
To bear the Goddess' song in odors up to Heaven | V |
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Spirit that dwellest where | H |
In the deep sky | B |
The terrible and fair | H |
In beauty vie | B |
Beyond the line of blue | U |
The boundary of the star | G |
Which turneth at the view | U |
Of thy barrier and thy bar | G |
Of the barrier overgone | V |
By the comets who were cast | U |
From their pride and from their throne | V |
To be drudges till the last | U |
To be carriers of fire | W |
The red fire of their heart | U |
With speed that may not tire | W |
And with pain that shall not part | U |
Who livest that we know | V |
In Eternity we feel | B2 |
But the shadow of whose brow | C2 |
What spirit shall reveal | B2 |
Tho' the beings whom thy Nesace | C |
Thy messenger hath known | V |
Have dream'd for thy Infinity | U |
A model of their own | V |
Thy will is done O God | U |
The star hath ridden high | B |
Thro' many a tempest but she rode | U |
Beneath thy burning eye | B |
And here in thought to thee | U |
In thought that can alone | V |
Ascend thy empire and so be | U |
A partner of thy throne | V |
By winged Fantasy | U |
My embassy is given | V |
Till secrecy shall knowledge be | U |
In the environs of Heaven | V |
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She ceas'd and buried then her burning cheek | D2 |
Abash'd amid the lilies there to seek | D2 |
A shelter from the fervor of His eye | B |
For the stars trembled at the Deity | U |
She stirr'd not breath'd not for a voice was there | H |
How solemnly pervading the calm air | H |
A sound of silence on the startled ear | E2 |
Which dreamy poets name the music of the sphere | F2 |
Ours is a world of words Quiet we call | G2 |
Silence which is the merest word of all | G2 |
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All Nature speaks and ev'n ideal things | C |
Flap shadowy sounds from the visionary wings | C |
But ah not so when thus in realms on high | B |
The eternal voice of God is passing by | B |
And the red winds are withering in the sky | B |
What tho' in worlds which sightless cycles run | V |
Link'd to a little system and one sun | V |
Where all my love is folly and the crowd | U |
Still think my terrors but the thunder cloud | U |
The storm the earthquake and the ocean wrath | H2 |
Ah will they cross me in my angrier path | H2 |
What tho' in worlds which own a single sun | V |
The sands of time grow dimmer as they run | V |
Yet thine is my resplendency so given | V |
To bear my secrets thro' the upper Heaven | V |
Leave tenantless thy crystal home and fly | B |
With all thy train athwart the moony sky | B |
Apart like fire flies in Sicilian night | U |
And wing to other worlds another light | U |
Divulge the secrets of thy embassy | U |
To the proud orbs that twinkle and so be | U |
To ev'ry heart a barrier and a ban | V |
Lest the stars totter in the guilt of man | V |
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Up rose the maiden in the yellow night | U |
The single mooned eve on earth we plight | U |
Our faith to one love and one moon adore | I2 |
The birth place of young Beauty had no more | I2 |
As sprang that yellow star from downy hours | C |
Up rose the maiden from her shrine of flowers | C |
And bent o'er sheeny mountain and dim plain | V |
Her way but left not yet her Therasaean reign | V |
Edgar Allan Poe
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