The Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEEFGEFAHCHIJIJK KLMLNMOPOPN IQQIRJREJEESESTEUTEQ VUV

Issuing from the WordA
The seven days cameB
Each in its own placeC
Its own nameB
And the first long daysD
A hard and rocky springE
Inhuman burgeoningE
And nothing there for claw or handF
Vast loneliness ere loneliness beganG
Where the blank seasons in their journeyingE
Saw water at play with water and sand with sandF
The waters stirredA
And from the doors were castH
Wild lights and shadows on the formless faceC
Of the flood of chaos vastH
Lengthening and dwindling image of earth and heavenI
The forest's green shadowJ
Softly over the water drivenI
As if the earth's green wonder endless meadowJ
Floated and sank within its own green lightK
In water and nightK
Sudden appeared the lion's violent headL
Raging and burning in its watery caveM
The stallion's treadL
Soundless fell on the flood and the animals pouredN
Onward flowing across the flowing waveM
Then on the waters fellO
The shadow of man and earth and the heavens scrawledP
With names as if each pebble and leaf would tellO
The tale untellable And the Lord calledP
The seventh day forth and the glory of the LordN
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And now we see in the sunI
The mountains standing clear in the third dayQ
Where they shall always stayQ
And thence a river runI
Threading clear cord of water all to allR
The wooded hill and the cattle in the meadowJ
The tall wave breaking on the high sea wallR
The people at evening walkingE
The crescent shadowJ
Of the light built bridge the hunter stalkingE
The flying quarry each in a different morningE
The fish in the billow's heart the man with the netS
The hungry swords crossed in the cross of warningE
The lion setS
High on the banner leaping into the skyT
The seasons playingE
Their game of sun and moon and east and westU
The animal watching man and bird go byT
The women prayingE
For the passing of this fragmentary dayQ
Into the day where all are gathered togetherV
Things and their names in the storm's and the lightning's nestU
The seventh great day and the clear eternal weatherV

Edwin Muir



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