The Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEEFGEFAHCHIJIJK KLMLNMOPOPN IQQIRJREJEESESTEUTEQ VUVIssuing from the Word | A |
The seven days came | B |
Each in its own place | C |
Its own name | B |
And the first long days | D |
A hard and rocky spring | E |
Inhuman burgeoning | E |
And nothing there for claw or hand | F |
Vast loneliness ere loneliness began | G |
Where the blank seasons in their journeying | E |
Saw water at play with water and sand with sand | F |
The waters stirred | A |
And from the doors were cast | H |
Wild lights and shadows on the formless face | C |
Of the flood of chaos vast | H |
Lengthening and dwindling image of earth and heaven | I |
The forest's green shadow | J |
Softly over the water driven | I |
As if the earth's green wonder endless meadow | J |
Floated and sank within its own green light | K |
In water and night | K |
Sudden appeared the lion's violent head | L |
Raging and burning in its watery cave | M |
The stallion's tread | L |
Soundless fell on the flood and the animals poured | N |
Onward flowing across the flowing wave | M |
Then on the waters fell | O |
The shadow of man and earth and the heavens scrawled | P |
With names as if each pebble and leaf would tell | O |
The tale untellable And the Lord called | P |
The seventh day forth and the glory of the Lord | N |
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And now we see in the sun | I |
The mountains standing clear in the third day | Q |
Where they shall always stay | Q |
And thence a river run | I |
Threading clear cord of water all to all | R |
The wooded hill and the cattle in the meadow | J |
The tall wave breaking on the high sea wall | R |
The people at evening walking | E |
The crescent shadow | J |
Of the light built bridge the hunter stalking | E |
The flying quarry each in a different morning | E |
The fish in the billow's heart the man with the net | S |
The hungry swords crossed in the cross of warning | E |
The lion set | S |
High on the banner leaping into the sky | T |
The seasons playing | E |
Their game of sun and moon and east and west | U |
The animal watching man and bird go by | T |
The women praying | E |
For the passing of this fragmentary day | Q |
Into the day where all are gathered together | V |
Things and their names in the storm's and the lightning's nest | U |
The seventh great day and the clear eternal weather | V |
Edwin Muir
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