Ode To Salvador Dali Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DAEF DDDG DDFH IJDK DALM NDOP KDDQ DKRA DSDD TDDU AVDD AFWX WLDA YZDA DA2B2C2 D2OE2D F2G2XH2 DDTD I2J2K2D DRA2DD DFSD DL2M2D K2GK2D N2DM2D DO2TP2 Q2K2K2A DFSD

A rose in the high garden you desireA
A wheel in the pure syntax of steelB
The mountain stripped bare of Impressionist fogC
The grays watching over the last balustradesD
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The modern painters in their white ateliersD
clip the square root's sterilized flowerA
In the waters of the Seine a marble icebergE
chills the windows and scatters the ivyF
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Man treads firmly on the cobbled streetsD
Crystals hide from the magic of reflectionsD
The Government has closed the perfume storesD
The machine perpetuates its binary beatG
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An absence of forests and screens and browsD
roams across the roofs of the old housesD
The air polishes its prism on the seaF
and the horizon rises like a great aqueductH
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Soldiers who know no wine and no penumbraI
behead the sirens on the seas of leadJ
Night black statue of prudence holdsD
the moon's round mirror in her handK
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A desire for forms and limits overwhelms usD
Here comes the man who sees with a yellow rulerA
Venus is a white still lifeL
and the butterfly collectors run awayM
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Cadaqu s at the fulcrum of water and hillN
lifts flights of stairs and hides seashellsD
Wooden flutes pacify the airO
An ancient woodland god gives the children fruitP
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Her fishermen sleep dreamless on the sandK
On the high sea a rose is their compassD
The horizon virgin of wounded handkerchiefsD
links the great crystals of fish and moonQ
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A hard diadem of white brigantinesD
encircles bitter foreheads and hair of sandK
The sirens convince but they don't beguileR
and they come if we show a glass of fresh waterA
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Oh Salvador Dali of the olive colored voiceD
I do not praise your halting adolescent brushS
or your pigments that flirt with the pigment of your timesD
but I laud your longing for eternity with limitsD
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Sanitary soul you live upon new marbleT
You run from the dark jungle of improbable formsD
Your fancy reaches only as far as your handsD
and you enjoy the sonnet of the sea in your windowU
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The world is dull penumbra and disorderA
in the foreground where man is foundV
But now the stars concealing landscapesD
reveal the perfect schema of their coursesD
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The current of time pools and gains orderA
in the numbered forms of century after centuryF
And conquered Death takes refuge tremblingW
in the tight circle of the present instantX
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When you take up your palette a bullet hole in its wingW
you call on the light that brings the olive tree to lifeL
The broad light of Minerva builder of scaffoldsD
where there is no room for dream or its hazy flowerA
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You call on the old light that stays on the browY
not descending to the mouth or the heart of manZ
A light feared by the loving vines of BacchusD
and the chaotic force of curving waterA
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You do well when you post warning flagsD
along the dark limit that shines in the nightA2
As a painter you refuse to have your forms softenedB2
by the shifting cotton of an unexpected cloudC2
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The fish in the fishbowl and the bird in the cageD2
You refuse to invent them in the sea or the airO
You stylize or copy once you have seenE2
their small agile bodies with your honest eyesD
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You love a matter definite and exactF2
where the toadstool cannot pitch its campG2
You love the architecture that builds on the absentX
and admit the flag simply as a jokeH2
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The steel compass tells its short elastic verseD
Unknown clouds rise to deny the sphere existsD
The straight line tells of its upward struggleT
and the learned crystals sing their geometriesD
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But also the rose of the garden where you liveI2
Always the rose always our north and southJ2
Calm and ingathered like an eyeless statueK2
not knowing the buried struggle it provokesD
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Pure rose clean of artifice and rough sketchesD
opening for us the slender wings of the smileR
Pinned butterfly that ponders its flightA2
Rose of balance with no self inflicted painsD
Always the roseD
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Oh Salvador Dali of the olive colored voiceD
I speak of what your person and your paintings tell meF
I do not praise your halting adolescent brushS
but I sing the steady aim of your arrowsD
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I sing your fair struggle of Catalan lightsD
your love of what might be made clearL2
I sing your astronomical and tender heartM2
a never wounded deck of French cardsD
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I sing your restless longing for the statueK2
your fear of the feelings that await you in the streetG
I sing the small sea siren who sings to youK2
riding her bicycle of corals and conchesD
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But above all I sing a common thoughtN2
that joins us in the dark and golden hoursD
The light that blinds our eyes is not artM2
Rather it is love friendship crossed swordsD
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Not the picture you patiently traceD
but the breast of Theresa she of sleepless skinO2
the tight wound curls of Mathilde the ungratefulT
our friendship painted bright as a game boardP2
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May fingerprints of blood on goldQ2
streak the heart of eternal CatalunyaK2
May stars like falconless fists shine on youK2
while your painting and your life break into flowerA
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Don't watch the water clock with its membraned wingsD
or the hard scythe of the allegoryF
Always in the air dress and undress your brushS
before the sea peopled with sailors and shipsD

Federico Garca-a Lorca



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