Ode To The Setting Sun - Prelude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH HGHG HGHG IJIJ KGKG| The wailful sweetness of the violin | A |
| Floats down the hush ed waters of the wind | B |
| The heart strings of the throbbing harp begin | A |
| To long in aching music Spirit pined | B |
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| In wafts that poignant sweetness drifts until | C |
| The wounded soul ooze sadness The red sun | D |
| A bubble of fire drops slowly toward the hill | C |
| While one bird prattles that the day is done | D |
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| O setting Sun that as in reverent days | E |
| Sinkest in music to thy smooth ed sleep | F |
| Discrowned of homage though yet crowned with rays | E |
| Hymned not at harvest more though reapers reap | F |
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| For thee this music wakes not O deceived | G |
| If thou hear in these thoughtless harmonies | H |
| A pious phantom of adorings reaved | G |
| And echo of fair ancient flatteries | H |
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| Yet in this field where the Cross planted reigns | H |
| I know not what strange passion bows my head | G |
| To thee whose great command upon my veins | H |
| Proves thee a god for me not dead not dead | G |
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| For worship it is too incredulous | H |
| For doubt oh too believing passionate | G |
| What wild divinity makes my heart thus | H |
| A fount of most baptismal tears Thy straight | G |
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| Long beam lies steady on the Cross Ah me | I |
| What secret would thy radiant finger show | J |
| Of thy bright mastership is this the key | I |
| Is THIS thy secret then And is it woe | J |
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| Fling from thine ear the burning curls and hark | K |
| A song thou hast not heard in Northern day | G |
| For Rome too daring and for Greece too dark | K |
| Sweet with wild wings that pass that pass away | G |
Francis Thompson
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