The Most-sacred Mountain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFDGHI JKL EGGMNGGEOPQDRD| Space and the twelve clean winds of heaven | A |
| And this sharp exultation like a cry after the slow six thousand | B |
| steps of climbing | C |
| This is Tai Shan the beautiful the most holy | D |
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| Below my feet the foot hills nestle brown with flecks of green | E |
| and lower down the flat brown plain the floor of earth stretches away | F |
| to blue infinity | D |
| Beside me in this airy space the temple roofs cut their slow curves | G |
| against the sky | H |
| And one black bird circles above the void | I |
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| Space and the twelve clean winds are here | J |
| And with them broods eternity a swift white peace a presence manifest | K |
| The rhythm ceases here Time has no place This is the end that has no end | L |
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| Here when Confucius came a half a thousand years before the Nazarene | E |
| he stepped with me thus into timelessness | G |
| The stone beside us waxes old the carven stone that says On this spot once | G |
| Confucius stood and felt the smallness of the world below | M |
| The stone grows old | N |
| Eternity is not for stones | G |
| But I shall go down from this airy place this swift white peace | G |
| this stinging exultation | E |
| And time will close about me and my soul stir to the rhythm | O |
| of the daily round | P |
| Yet having known life will not press so close and always I shall feel time | Q |
| ravel thin about me | D |
| For once I stood | R |
| In the white windy presence of eternity | D |
Eunice Tietjens
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