Chartres Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEDEDE A EFFEEFFEEGEGEG| I | A |
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| Immense august like some Titanic bloom | B |
| The mighty choir unfolds its lithic core | C |
| Petalled with panes of azure gules and or | C |
| Splendidly lambent in the Gothic gloom | B |
| And stamened with keen flamelets that illume | B |
| The pale high alter On the prayer worn floor | C |
| By worshippers innumerous thronged of yore | C |
| A few brown crones familiars of the tomb | B |
| The stranded driftwood of Faith's ebbing sea | D |
| For these alone the finials fret the skies | E |
| The topmost bosses shake their blossoms free | D |
| While from the triple portals with grave eyes | E |
| Tranquil and fixed upon eternity | D |
| The cloud of witnesses still testifies | E |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| The crimson panes like blood drops stigmatise | E |
| The western floor The aisles are mute and cold | F |
| A rigid fetich in her robe of gold | F |
| The Virgin of the Pillar with blank eyes | E |
| Enthroned beneath her votive canopies | E |
| Gathers a meagre remnant to her fold | F |
| The rest is solitude the church grown old | F |
| Stands stark and grey beneath the burning skies | E |
| Well nigh again its mighty framework grows | E |
| To be a part of nature's self withdrawn | G |
| From hot humanity's impatient woes | E |
| The floor is ridged like some rude mountain lawn | G |
| And in the east one giant window shows | E |
| The roseate coldness of an Alp at dawn | G |
Edith Wharton
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