Al Aaraaf: Part 2 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGFGGHIJJK KGGLMNNOOPPJJQQRSPP JJNNTTJJ UULMJJJJVWGG JJXXUUNN YDYDYZYZJA2CA2NB2NB2 C2JD2JE2JE2JNNJJC2JC 2J F2CJCG2H2G2H2JGJG YJYJH2I2H2I2LYMYH2H2 H2H2JDJDH2JH2JNJNJJJ CJYJ2YJ2CK2CK2YJYJ JYJJYYL2L2F2F2NNM2M2 JJXXTTH2H2YYN2N2XXE2 E2YYJJNNNNJJMM YYO2O2XXHHJJP2P2FFYY P2P2HHHYYNNJJP2P2 JJE2E2 JJJJJJYYYJH2H2Q2Q2 H2H2HHJJJJH2H2JJNNP2 P2 YYH2H2High on a mountain of enamell'd head | A |
Such as the drowsy shepherd on his bed | A |
Of giant pasturage lying at his ease | B |
Raising his heavy eyelid starts and sees | B |
With many a mutter'd hope to be forgiven | C |
What time the moon is quadrated in Heaven | C |
Of rosy head that towering far away | D |
Into the sunlit ether caught the ray | D |
Of sunken suns at eve at noon of night | E |
While the moon danc'd with the fair stranger light | E |
Uprear'd upon such height arose a pile | F |
Of gorgeous columns on th' unburthen'd air | G |
Flashing from Parian marble that twin smile | F |
Far down upon the wave that sparkled there | G |
And nursled the young mountain in its lair | G |
Of molten stars their pavement such as fall | H |
Thro' the ebon air besilvering the pall | I |
Of their own dissolution while they die | J |
Adorning then the dwellings of the sky | J |
A dome by linked light from Heaven let down | K |
Sat gently on these columns as a crown | K |
A window of one circular diamond there | G |
Look'd out above into the purple air | G |
And rays from God shot down that meteor chain | L |
And hallow'd all the beauty twice again | M |
Save when between th' empyrean and that ring | N |
Some eager spirit Flapp'd his dusky wing | N |
But on the pillars Seraph eyes have seen | O |
The dimness of this world that greyish green | O |
That Nature loves the best Beauty's grave | P |
Lurk'd in each cornice round each architrave | P |
And every sculptur'd cherub thereabout | J |
That from his marble dwelling peered out | J |
Seem'd earthly in the shadow of his niche | Q |
Achaian statues in a world so rich | Q |
Friezes from Tadmor and Persepolis | R |
From Balbec and the stilly clear abyss | S |
Of beautiful Gomorrah O the wave | P |
Is now upon thee but too late to save | P |
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Sound loves to revel in a summer night | J |
Witness the murmur of the grey twilight | J |
That stole upon the ear in Eyraco | N |
Of many a wild star gazer long ago | N |
That stealeth ever on the ear of him | T |
Who musing gazeth on the distance dim | T |
And sees the darkness coming as a cloud | J |
Is not its form its voice most palpable and loud | J |
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But what is this it cometh and it brings | U |
A music with it 'tis the rush of wings | U |
A pause and then a sweeping falling strain | L |
And Nesace is in her halls again | M |
From the wild energy of wanton haste | J |
Her cheeks were flushing and her lips aPart | J |
And zone that clung around her gentle waist | J |
Had burst beneath the heaving of her heart | J |
Within the centre of that hall to breathe | V |
She paused and panted Zanthe all beneath | W |
The fairy light that kiss'd her golden hair | G |
And long'd to rest yet could but sparkle there | G |
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Young flowers were whispering in melody | J |
To happy flowers that night and tree to tree | J |
Fountains were gushing music as they fell | X |
In many a star lit grove or moon lit dell | X |
Yet silence came upon material things | U |
Fair flowers bright waterfalls and angel wings | U |
And sound alone that from the spirit sprang | N |
Bore burthen to the charm the maiden sang | N |
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'Neath the blue bell or streamer | Y |
Or tufted wild spray | D |
That keeps from the dreamer | Y |
The moonbeam away | D |
Bright beings that ponder | Y |
With half closing eyes | Z |
On the stars which your wonder | Y |
Hath drawn from the skies | Z |
Till they glance thro' the shade and | J |
Come down to your brow | A2 |
Like eyes of the maiden | C |
Who calls on you now | A2 |
Arise from your dreaming | N |
In violet bowers | B2 |
To duty beseeming | N |
These star litten hours | B2 |
And shake from your tresses | C2 |
Encumber'd with dew | J |
The breath of those kisses | D2 |
That cumber them too | J |
O how without you Love | E2 |
Could angels be blest | J |
Those kisses of true Love | E2 |
That lull'd ye to rest | J |
Up shake from your wing | N |
Each hindering thing | N |
The dew of the night | J |
It would weigh down your flight | J |
And true love caresses | C2 |
O leave them aPart | J |
They are light on the tresses | C2 |
But lead on the heart | J |
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Ligeia Ligeia | F2 |
My beautiful one | C |
Whose harshest idea | J |
Will to melody run | C |
O is it thy will | G2 |
On the breezes to toss | H2 |
Or capriciously still | G2 |
Like the lone Albatros | H2 |
Incumbent on night | J |
As she on the air | G |
To keep watch with delight | J |
On the harmony there | G |
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Ligeia wherever | Y |
Thy image may be | J |
No magic shall sever | Y |
Thy music from thee | J |
Thou hast bound many eyes | H2 |
In a dreamy sleep | I2 |
But the strains still arise | H2 |
Which thy vigilance keep | I2 |
The sound of the rain | L |
Which leaps down to the flower | Y |
And dances again | M |
In the rhythm of the shower | Y |
The murmur that springs | H2 |
From the growing of grass | H2 |
Are the music of things | H2 |
But are modell'd alas | H2 |
Away then my dearest | J |
Oh hie thee away | D |
To the springs that lie clearest | J |
Beneath the moon ray | D |
To lone lake that smiles | H2 |
In its dream of deep rest | J |
At the many star isles | H2 |
That enjewel its breast | J |
Where wild flowers creeping | N |
Have mingled their shade | J |
On its margin is sleeping | N |
Full many a maid | J |
Some have left the cool glade and | J |
Have slept with the bee | J |
Arouse them my maiden | C |
On moorland and lea | J |
Go breathe on their slumber | Y |
All softly in ear | J2 |
Thy musical number | Y |
They slumbered to hear | J2 |
For what can awaken | C |
An angel so soon | K2 |
Whose sleep hath been taken | C |
Beneath the cold moon | K2 |
As the spell which no slumber | Y |
Of witchery may test | J |
The rhythmical number | Y |
Which lull'd him to rest | J |
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Spirits in wing and angels to the view | J |
A thousand seraphs burst th' Empyrean thro' | Y |
Young dreams still hovering on their drowsy flight | J |
Seraphs in all but Knowledge the keen light | J |
That fell refracted thro' thy bounds afar | Y |
O Death from eye of God upon that star | Y |
Sweet was that error sweeter still that death | L2 |
Sweet was that error even with us the breath | L2 |
Of Science dims the mirror of our joy | F2 |
To them 'twere the Simoom and would destroy | F2 |
For what to them availeth it to know | N |
That Truth is Falsehood or that Bliss is Woe | N |
Sweet was their death with them to die was rife | M2 |
With the last ecstasy of satiate life | M2 |
Beyond that death no immortality | J |
But sleep that pondereth and is not to be' | J |
And there oh may my weary spirit dwell | X |
APart from Heaven's Eternity and yet how far from Hell | X |
What guilty spirit in what shrubbery dim | T |
Heard not the stirring summons of that hymn | T |
But two they fell for Heaven no grace imParts | H2 |
To those who hear not for their beating hearts | H2 |
A maiden angel and her seraph lover | Y |
O where and ye may seek the wide skies over | Y |
Was Love the blind near sober Duty known | N2 |
Unguided Love hath fallen 'mid tears of perfect moan | N2 |
He was a goodly spirit he who fell | X |
A wanderer by moss y mantled well | X |
A gazer on the lights that shine above | E2 |
A dreamer in the moonbeam by his love | E2 |
What wonder for each star is eye like there | Y |
And looks so sweetly down on Beauty's hair | Y |
And they and ev'ry mossy spring were holy | J |
To his love haunted heart and melancholy | J |
The night had found to him a night of woe | N |
Upon a mountain crag young Angelo | N |
Beetling it bends athwart the solemn sky | N |
And scowls on starry worlds that down beneath it lie | N |
Here sat he with his love his dark eye bent | J |
With eagle gaze along the firmament | J |
Now turn'd it upon her but ever then | M |
It trembled to the orb of Earth again | M |
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Ianthe dearest see how dim that ray | Y |
How lovely 'tis to look so far away | Y |
She seem'd not thus upon that autumn eve | O2 |
I left her gorgeous halls nor mourn'd to leave | O2 |
That eve that eve I should remember well | X |
The sun ray dropp'd in Lemnos with a spell | X |
On th' arabesque carving of a gilded hall | H |
Wherein I sate and on the draperied wall | H |
And on my eyelids O the heavy light | J |
How drowsily it weigh'd them into night | J |
On flowers before and mist and love they ran | P2 |
With Persian Saadi in his Gulistan | P2 |
But O that light I slumber'd Death the while | F |
Stole o'er my senses in that lovely isle | F |
So softly that no single silken hair | Y |
Awoke that slept or knew that he was there | Y |
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The last spot of Earth's orb I trod upon | P2 |
Was a proud temple call'd the Parthenon | P2 |
More beauty clung around her column'd wall | H |
Than ev'n thy glowing bosom beats withal | H |
And when old Time my wing did disenthral | H |
Thence sprang I as the eagle from his tower | Y |
And years I left behind me in an hour | Y |
What time upon her airy bounds I hung | N |
One half the garden of her globe was flung | N |
Unrolling as a chart unto my view | J |
Tenantless cities of the desert too | J |
Ianthe beauty crowded on me then | P2 |
And half I wish'd to be again of men | P2 |
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My Angelo and why of them to be | J |
A brighter dwelling place is here for thee | J |
And greener fields than in yon world above | E2 |
And woman's loveliness and passionate love | E2 |
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But list Ianthe when the air so soft | J |
Fail'd as my pennon'd spirit leapt aloft | J |
Perhaps my brain grew dizzy but the world | J |
I left so late was into chaos hurl'd | J |
Sprang from her station on the winds aPart | J |
And roll'd a flame the fiery Heaven athwart | J |
Methought my sweet one then I ceased to soar | Y |
And fell not swiftly as I rose before | Y |
But with a downward tremulous motion thro' | Y |
Light brazen rays this golden star unto | J |
Nor long the measure of my falling hours | H2 |
For nearest of all stars was thine to ours | H2 |
Dread star that came amid a night of mirth | Q2 |
A red Daedalion on the timid Earth | Q2 |
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We came and to thy Earth but not to us | H2 |
Be given our lady's bidding to discuss | H2 |
We came my love around above below | H |
Gay fire fly of the night we come and go | H |
Nor ask a reason save the angel nod | J |
She grants to us as granted by her God | J |
But Angelo than thine grey Time unfurl'd | J |
Never his fairy wing O'er fairier world | J |
Dim was its little disk and angel eyes | H2 |
Alone could see the phantom in the skies | H2 |
When first Al Aaraaf knew her course to be | J |
Headlong thitherward o'er the starry sea | J |
But when its glory swell'd upon the sky | N |
As glowing Beauty's bust beneath man's eye | N |
We paused before the heritage of men | P2 |
And thy star trembled as doth Beauty then | P2 |
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Thus in discourse the lovers whiled away | Y |
The night that waned and waned and brought no day | Y |
They fell for Heaven to them no hope imParts | H2 |
Who hear not for the beating of their hearts | H2 |
Edgar Allan Poe
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