Scirocco Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCECDC FGHFHCICGCIC JKLKCCCMNMOONFMPQCCM RM CCCPCCPC CCSSTTPPCCUCUCCCOut of that high pavilion | A |
Where the sick wind harassed sun | A |
In the whiteness of the day | B |
Ghostly shone and stole away | B |
Parch d with the utter thirst | C |
Of unnumbered Libyan sands | D |
Thou cloud gathering spirit burst | C |
Out of arid Africa | E |
To the tideless sea and smote | C |
On our pale moon cool d lands | D |
The hot breath of a lion's throat | C |
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And that furnace heated breath | F |
Blew into my placid dreams | G |
The heart of fire from whence it came | H |
Haunt of beauty and of death | F |
Where the forest breaks in flame | H |
Of flaunting blossom where the flood | C |
Of life pulses hot and stark | I |
Where a wing'd death breeds in mud | C |
And tumult of tree shadowed streams | G |
Black waters desolately hurled | C |
Through the uttermost lost dark | I |
Secret places of the world | C |
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There O swift and terrible | J |
Being wast thou born and thence | K |
Like a demon loosed from hell | L |
Stripped with rending wings the dense | K |
Echoing forests till their bowed | C |
Plumes of trees like tattered cloud | C |
Were toss'd and torn and cried aloud | C |
As the wood were rack'd with pain | M |
Thence thou freed'st thy wings and soon | N |
From the moaning stricken plain | M |
In whorled eagle soarings rose | O |
To melt the sun defeating snows | O |
Of the Mountains of the Moon | N |
To dull their glaciers with fierce breath | F |
To slip the avalanches' rein | M |
To set the laughing torrents free | P |
On the tented desert beneath | Q |
Where men of thirst must wither and die | C |
While the vultures stare in the sun's eye | C |
Where slowly sifting sands are strown | M |
On broken cities whose bleaching bones | R |
Whiten in moonlight stone on stone | M |
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Over their pitiful dust thy blast | C |
Passed in columns of whirling sand | C |
Leapt the desert and swept the strand | C |
Of the cool and quiet sea | P |
Gathering mighty shapes and proud | C |
Phantoms of monstrous wave born cloud | C |
And northward drove this panoply | P |
Till the sky seemed charging on the land | C |
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Yet in that plum d helm the most | C |
Of thy hot power was cooled or lost | C |
So that it came to me at length | S |
Faint and tepid and shorn of strength | S |
To shiver an olive grove that heaves | T |
A myriad moonlight coloured leaves | T |
And in the stone pine's dome set free | P |
A murmur of the middle sea | P |
A puff of warm air in the night | C |
So spent by its impetuous flight | C |
It scarce invades my pillar'd closes | U |
To waft their fragrance from the sweet | C |
Buds of my lemon coloured roses | U |
Or strew blown petals at my feet | C |
To kiss my cheek with a warm sigh | C |
And in the tired darkness die | C |
Francis Brett Young
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