Epode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGGHHHIJKILMN LOPPOHQQRSTTSUIIRVWW VXYYXZIA2ZB2C2C2R| BEYOND the Night down o'er the labouring East | A |
| I see light's harbinger of day released | A |
| Upon the false gleam of the ante dawn | B |
| Lo the fair heaven of sun pursuing morn | C |
| Beyond the lampless sleep and perishing death | D |
| That hold my heart I feel my New Life's breath | D |
| I see the face my Spirit shape shall have | E |
| When this frail clay and dust have fled the grave | F |
| Beyond the Night the death of doubt defeat | G |
| Rise dawn and morn and life with light doth meet | G |
| For the great cause too sure as the Sun you ray | H |
| Shoots up to strike the threatening clouds and say | H |
| I come and with me comes the victorious Day | H |
| When I was young the Muse I worshipped took me | I |
| Fearless a lonely heart to look on men | J |
| ''Tis yours ' said she 'to paint this show of them | K |
| Even as they are ' Then smiling she forsook me | I |
| Wherefore with passionate patience I withdrew | L |
| With eyes from which all loves hates hopes and fears | M |
| Joy's aureole and the blinding sheen of tears | N |
| Were purged away And what I saw I drew | L |
| Then as I worked remote serene alone | O |
| A Child girl came to me and touched my cheek | P |
| And lo her lips were pale her limbs were weak | P |
| Her eyes had thirst's desire and hunger's moan | O |
| She said 'I am the Soul of this sad day | H |
| Where thousands toil and suffer hideous Crime | Q |
| Where units rob and mock the empty time | Q |
| With revel and rank prayer and death's display ' | R |
| I said 'O Child how shall I leave my songs | S |
| My songs and tales the warp and subtle woof | T |
| Of this great work and web in your behoof | T |
| To strive and passionately sing of wrongs | S |
| 'Child is it nothing that I here fulfil | U |
| My heart and soul that I may look and see | I |
| Where Homer bends and Shakspere smiles on me | I |
| And Goethe praises the unswerving will ' | R |
| She hung her head and straight without a word | V |
| Passed from me And I raised my conscious face | W |
| To where in beauteous power in her place | W |
| She stood the Muse my Muse and watched and heard | V |
| Her proud and marble brow was faintly flushed | X |
| Upon her flawless lips and in her eyes | Y |
| A mild light flickered as the young sunrise | Y |
| Glad sacred terrible serene and hushed | X |
| Then I cried out and rose with pure wrath wild | Z |
| Desperate with hatred of Fate's slavery | I |
| And this cold cruel Demon With that cry | A2 |
| I left her and sought out the piteous Child | Z |
| 'Darling 'tis nothing that I shed and weep | B2 |
| These tears of fire that wither all the heart | C2 |
| These bloody sweats that drain and sear and smart | C2 |
| I love you and you'll kiss me when I sleep ' | R |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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