An Anthem Of Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACCDECCFCGACCAFCCDA ACEFAHICAACAJFKLMGNC OP Q CARCCCRSTFUMMFC VAUCFCCAACSWSTCSFFXY ZA2CCSB2CCXXMMSFCSAS CAVFAXC2D2AE2XSF2MCV XLXG2XXAXCSMMSMXQCAC TXXCH2CTXI2FXUXXXCCC XMXJ2CCCLXFFFCCK2CCM MFFACCFL2AM2SFFLTAFF N2SASFMFFFCB2B2Proemion | A |
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Immeasurable Earth | B |
Through the loud vast and populacy of Heaven | A |
Tempested with gold schools of ponderous orbs | C |
That cleav'st with deep revolting harmonies | C |
Passage perpetual and behind thee draw'st | D |
A furrow sweet a cometary wake | E |
Of trailing music What large effluence | C |
Not sole the cloudy sighing of thy seas | C |
Nor thy blue coifing air encases thee | F |
From prying of the stars and the broad shafts | C |
Of thrusting sunlight tempers For dropped near | G |
From my remov ed tour in the serene | A |
Of utmost contemplation I scent lives | C |
This is the efflux of thy rocks and fields | C |
And wind cuffed forestage and the souls of men | A |
And aura of all treaders over thee | F |
A sentient exhalation wherein close | C |
The odorous lives of many throated flowers | C |
And each thing's mettle effused that so thou wear'st | D |
Even like a breather on a frosty morn | A |
Thy proper suspiration For I know | A |
Albeit with custom dulled perceivingness | C |
Nestled against thy breast my sense not take | E |
The breathings of thy nostrils there's no tree | F |
No grain of dust nor no cold seeming stone | A |
But wears a fume of its circumfluous self | H |
Thine own life and the lives of all that live | I |
The issue of thy loins | C |
Is this thy gaberdine | A |
Wherein thou walkest through thy large demesne | A |
And sphery pleasances | C |
Amazing the unstal ed eyes of Heaven | A |
And us that still a precious seeing have | J |
Behind this dim and mortal jelly | F |
Ah | K |
If not in all too late and frozen a day | L |
I come in rearward of the throats of song | M |
Unto the deaf sense of the ag ed year | G |
Singing with doom upon me yet give heed | N |
One poet with sick pinion that still feels | C |
Breath through the Orient gateways closing fast | O |
Fast closing t'ward the undelighted night | P |
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Anthem | Q |
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In nescientness in nescientness | C |
Mother we put these fleshly lendings on | A |
Thou yield'st to thy poor children took thy gift | R |
Of life which must in all the after days | C |
Be craved again with tears | C |
With fresh and still petitionary tears | C |
Being once bound thine almsmen for that gift | R |
We are bound to beggary nor our own can call | S |
The journal dole of customary life | T |
But after suit obsequious for't to thee | F |
Indeed this flesh O Mother | U |
A beggar's gown a client's badging | M |
We find which from thy hands we simply took | M |
Nought dreaming of the after penury | F |
In nescientness | C |
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In a little joy in a little joy | V |
We wear awhile thy sore insignia | A |
Nor know thy heel o' the neck O Mother Mother | U |
Then what use knew I of thy solemn robes | C |
But as a child to play with them I bade thee | F |
Leave thy great husbandries thy grave designs | C |
Thy tedious state which irked my ignorant years | C |
Thy winter watches suckling of the grain | A |
Severe premeditation taciturn | A |
Upon the brooded Summer thy chill cares | C |
And all thy ministries majestical | S |
To sport with me thy darling Thought I not | W |
Thou set'st thy seasons forth processional | S |
To pamper me with pageant thou thyself | T |
My fellow gamester appanage of mine arms | C |
Then what wild Dionysia I young Bacchanal | S |
Danced in thy lap Ah for thy gravity | F |
Then O Earth thou rang'st beneath me | F |
Rocked to Eastward rocked to Westward | X |
Even with the shifted | Y |
Poise and footing of my thought | Z |
I brake through thy doors of sunset | A2 |
Ran before the hooves of sunrise | C |
Shook thy matron tresses down in fancies | C |
Wild and wilful | S |
As a poet's hand could twine them | B2 |
Caught in my fantasy's crystal chalice | C |
The Bow as its cataract of colours | C |
Plashed to thee downward | X |
Then when thy circuit swung to nightward | X |
Night the abhorr ed night was a new dawning | M |
Celestial dawning | M |
Over the ultimate marges of the soul | S |
Dusk grew turbulent with fire before me | F |
And like a windy arras waved with dreams | C |
Sleep I took not for my bedfellow | S |
Who could waken | A |
To a revel an inexhaustible | S |
Wassail of orgiac imageries | C |
Then while I wore thy sore insignia | A |
In a little joy O Earth in a little joy | V |
Loving thy beauty in all creatures born of thee | F |
Children and the sweet essenced body of woman | A |
Feeling not yet upon my neck thy foot | X |
But breathing warm of thee as infants breathe | C2 |
New from their mother's morning bosom So I | D2 |
Risen from thee restless winnower of the heaven | A |
Most Hermes like did keep | E2 |
My vital and resilient path and felt | X |
The play of wings about my fledg ed heel | S |
Sure on the verges of precipitous dream | F2 |
Swift in its springing | M |
From jut to jut of inaccessible fancies | C |
In a little joy | V |
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In a little thought in a little thought | X |
We stand and eye thee in a grave dismay | L |
With sad and doubtful questioning when first | X |
Thou speak'st to us as men like sons who hear | G2 |
Newly their mother's history unthought | X |
Before and say 'She is not as we dreamed | X |
Ah me we are beguiled ' What art thou then | A |
That art not our conceiving Art thou not | X |
Too old for thy young children Or perchance | C |
Keep'st thou a youth perpetual burnishable | S |
Beyond thy sons decrepit It is long | M |
Since Time was first a fledgling | M |
Yet thou may'st be but as a pendant bulla | S |
Against his stripling bosom swung Alack | M |
For that we seem indeed | X |
To have slipped the world's great leaping time and come | Q |
Upon thy pinched and dozing days these weeds | C |
These corporal leavings thou not cast'st us new | A |
Fresh from thy craftship like the lilies' coats | C |
But foist'st us off | T |
With hasty tarnished piecings negligent | X |
Snippets and waste | X |
From old ancestral wearings | C |
That have seen sorrier usage remainder flesh | H2 |
After our father's surfeits nay with chinks | C |
Some of us that if speech may have free leave | T |
Our souls go out at elbows We are sad | X |
With more than our sires' heaviness and with | I2 |
More than their weakness weak we shall not be | F |
Mighty with all their mightiness nor shall not | X |
Rejoice with all their joy Ay Mother Mother | U |
What is this Man thy darling kissed and cuffed | X |
Thou lustingly engender'st | X |
To sweat and make his brag and rot | X |
Crowned with all honour and all shamefulness | C |
From nightly towers | C |
He dogs the secret footsteps of the heavens | C |
Sifts in his hands the stars weighs them as gold dust | X |
And yet is he successive unto nothing | M |
But patrimony of a little mould | X |
And entail of four planks Thou hast made his mouth | J2 |
Avid of all dominion and all mightiness | C |
All sorrow all delight all topless grandeurs | C |
All beauty and all starry majesties | C |
And dim transtellar things even that it may | L |
Filled in the ending with a puff of dust | X |
Confess 'It is enough ' The world left empty | F |
What that poor mouthful crams His heart is builded | F |
For pride for potency infinity | F |
All heights all deeps and all immensities | C |
Arrased with purple like the house of kings | C |
To stall the grey rat and the carrion worm | K2 |
Statelily lodge Mother of mysteries | C |
Sayer of dark sayings in a thousand tongues | C |
Who bringest forth no saying yet so dark | M |
As we ourselves thy darkest We the young | M |
In a little thought in a little thought | F |
At last confront thee and ourselves in thee | F |
And wake disgarmented of glory as one | A |
On a mount standing and against him stands | C |
On the mount adverse crowned with westering rays | C |
The golden sun and they two brotherly | F |
Gaze each on each | L2 |
He faring down | A |
To the dull vale his Godhead peels from him | M2 |
Till he can scarcely spurn the pebble | S |
For nothingness of new found mortality | F |
That mutinies against his gall ed foot | F |
Littly he sets him to the daily way | L |
With all around the valleys growing grave | T |
And known things changed and strange but he holds on | A |
Though all the land of light be widow ed | F |
In a little thought | F |
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In a little strength in a little strength | N2 |
We affront thy unveiled face intolerable | S |
Which yet we do sustain | A |
Though I the Orient never more shall feel | S |
Break like a clash of cymbals and my heart | F |
Clang through my shaken body like a gong | M |
Nor ever more with spurted feet shall tread | F |
I' the winepresses of song nought's truly lost | F |
That moulds to sprout forth gain now I have on me | F |
The high Phoebean priesthood and that craves | C |
An unrash utterance not with flaunted hem | B2 |
May the M | B2 |
Francis Thompson
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