The South-wester Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDEDFFGGEEHHH HHIIHJHJHHKKLMLMNHNH NMNMNHOOHPNQN RHRHHHRRHHSTSTNHNHNU NUUNVNVNNNNWWHHHHXNX NHYHY ZA2ZA2HKHKKHB2B2HHHN HN HNHNNHC2D2C2D2D2C2ZX ZZX

Day of the cloud in fleets O dayA
Of wedded white and blue that sailB
Immingled with a footing rayA
In shadow sandals down our valeB
And swift to ravish golden meadsC
Swift up the run of turf it speedsC
Thy bright of head and dark of heelD
To where the hilltop flings on skyE
As hawk from wrist or dust from wheelD
The tiptoe sealers tossed to flyE
Thee the last thunder's caverned pealD
Delivered from a wailful nightF
All dusky round thy cradled lightF
Those brine born issues now in bloomG
Transfigured wreathed as raven's plumeG
And briony leaf to watch thee lieE
Dark eyebrows o'er a dreamful eyeE
Nigh opening till in the braidH
Of purpled vapours thou wert rosedH
Till that new babe a Goddess maidH
Appeared and vividly disclosedH
Her beat of life then crimson playedH
On edges of the plume and leafI
Shape had they and fair feature briefI
The wings the smiles they flew the breastH
Earth's milk But what imperial marchJ
Their standards led for earth none guessedH
Ere upward of a coloured archJ
An arrow straining eager headH
Lightened and high for zenith spedH
Fierier followed followed FireK
Name the young lord of Earth's desireK
Whose look her wine is and whose mouthL
Her music Beauteous was she seenM
Beneath her midway West of SouthL
And sister was her quivered greenM
To sapphire of the Nereid eyesN
On sea when sun is breeze she winkedH
As they and waved heaved waterwiseN
Her flood of leaves and grasses linkedH
A myriad lustrous butterfliesN
A moment in the fluttering sheenM
Becapped with the slate air that throwsN
The reindeer's antlers black betweenM
Low frowning and wide fallen snowsN
A minute after hooded stoledH
To suit a graveside Season's dirgeO
Lo but the breaking of a surgeO
And she is in her lover's foldH
Illumined o'er a boundless rangeP
Anew and through quick morning hoursN
The Tropic Arctic counterchargeQ
Did seem to pant in beams and showersN
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But noon beheld a larger heavenR
Beheld on our reflecting fieldH
The Sower to the Bearer givenR
And both their inner sweetest yieldH
Fresh as when dews were grey or firstH
Received the flush of hues athirstH
Heard we the woodland eyeing sunR
As harp and harper were they oneR
A murky cloud a fair pursuedH
Assailed and felt the limbs eludeH
He sat him down to pipe his woeS
And some strange beast of sky becameT
A giant's club withheld the blowS
A milky cloud went all to flameT
And there were groups where silvery springsN
The ethereal forest showed begirtH
By companies in choric ringsN
Whom but to see made ear alertH
For music did each movement rouseN
And motion was a minstrel's rageU
To have our spirits out of houseN
And bathe them on the open pageU
This was a day that knew not ageU
Since flew the vapoury twos and threesN
From western pile to eastern rackV
As on from peaks of PyreneesN
To Graians youngness ruled the trackV
When songful beams were shut in cavesN
And rainy drapery swept acrossN
When the ranked clouds were downy wavesN
Breast of swan eagle albatrossN
In ordered lines to screen the blueW
Youngest of light was nigh we knewW
The silver finger of it laughedH
Along the narrow rift it shotH
Slew the huge gloom with golden shaftH
Then haled on high the volumed blotH
To build the hurling palace cleaveX
The dazzling chasm the flying nestsN
The many glory garlands weaveX
Whose presence not our sight attestsN
Till wonder with the splendour blentH
And passion for the beauty flownY
Make evanescence permanentH
The thing at heart our endless ownY
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Only at gathered eve knew weZ
The marvels of the day for thenA2
Mount upon mountain out of seaZ
Arose and to our spacious kenA2
Trebled sublime Olympus roundH
In towering amphitheatreK
Colossal on enormous moundH
Majestic gods we saw conferK
They wafted the Dream messengerK
From off the loftiest the crownedH
That Lady of the hues of foamB2
In sun rays who close under domeB2
A figure on the foot's descentH
Irradiate to vapour wentH
As one whose mission was resignedH
Dispieced undraped dissolved to threadsN
Melting she passed into the mindH
Where immortal with mortal wedsN
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Whereby was known that we had viewedH
The union of our earth and skiesN
Renewed nor less alive renewedH
Than when old bards in nature wiseN
Conceived pure beauty given to eyesN
And with undyingness imbuedH
Pageant of man's poetic brainC2
His grand procession of the songD2
It was the Muses and their trainC2
Their God to lead the glittering throngD2
At whiles a beat of forest gongD2
At whiles a glimpse of Python slainC2
Mostly divinest harmonyZ
The lyre the dance We could believeX
A life in orb and brook and treeZ
And cloud and still holds MemoryZ
A morning in the eyes of eveX

George Meredith



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