The South-wester Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDEDFFGGEEHHH HHIIHJHJHHKKLMLMNHNH NMNMNHOOHPNQN RHRHHHRRHHSTSTNHNHNU NUUNVNVNNNNWWHHHHXNX NHYHY ZA2ZA2HKHKKHB2B2HHHN HN HNHNNHC2D2C2D2D2C2ZX ZZXDay of the cloud in fleets O day | A |
Of wedded white and blue that sail | B |
Immingled with a footing ray | A |
In shadow sandals down our vale | B |
And swift to ravish golden meads | C |
Swift up the run of turf it speeds | C |
Thy bright of head and dark of heel | D |
To where the hilltop flings on sky | E |
As hawk from wrist or dust from wheel | D |
The tiptoe sealers tossed to fly | E |
Thee the last thunder's caverned peal | D |
Delivered from a wailful night | F |
All dusky round thy cradled light | F |
Those brine born issues now in bloom | G |
Transfigured wreathed as raven's plume | G |
And briony leaf to watch thee lie | E |
Dark eyebrows o'er a dreamful eye | E |
Nigh opening till in the braid | H |
Of purpled vapours thou wert rosed | H |
Till that new babe a Goddess maid | H |
Appeared and vividly disclosed | H |
Her beat of life then crimson played | H |
On edges of the plume and leaf | I |
Shape had they and fair feature brief | I |
The wings the smiles they flew the breast | H |
Earth's milk But what imperial march | J |
Their standards led for earth none guessed | H |
Ere upward of a coloured arch | J |
An arrow straining eager head | H |
Lightened and high for zenith sped | H |
Fierier followed followed Fire | K |
Name the young lord of Earth's desire | K |
Whose look her wine is and whose mouth | L |
Her music Beauteous was she seen | M |
Beneath her midway West of South | L |
And sister was her quivered green | M |
To sapphire of the Nereid eyes | N |
On sea when sun is breeze she winked | H |
As they and waved heaved waterwise | N |
Her flood of leaves and grasses linked | H |
A myriad lustrous butterflies | N |
A moment in the fluttering sheen | M |
Becapped with the slate air that throws | N |
The reindeer's antlers black between | M |
Low frowning and wide fallen snows | N |
A minute after hooded stoled | H |
To suit a graveside Season's dirge | O |
Lo but the breaking of a surge | O |
And she is in her lover's fold | H |
Illumined o'er a boundless range | P |
Anew and through quick morning hours | N |
The Tropic Arctic countercharge | Q |
Did seem to pant in beams and showers | N |
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But noon beheld a larger heaven | R |
Beheld on our reflecting field | H |
The Sower to the Bearer given | R |
And both their inner sweetest yield | H |
Fresh as when dews were grey or first | H |
Received the flush of hues athirst | H |
Heard we the woodland eyeing sun | R |
As harp and harper were they one | R |
A murky cloud a fair pursued | H |
Assailed and felt the limbs elude | H |
He sat him down to pipe his woe | S |
And some strange beast of sky became | T |
A giant's club withheld the blow | S |
A milky cloud went all to flame | T |
And there were groups where silvery springs | N |
The ethereal forest showed begirt | H |
By companies in choric rings | N |
Whom but to see made ear alert | H |
For music did each movement rouse | N |
And motion was a minstrel's rage | U |
To have our spirits out of house | N |
And bathe them on the open page | U |
This was a day that knew not age | U |
Since flew the vapoury twos and threes | N |
From western pile to eastern rack | V |
As on from peaks of Pyrenees | N |
To Graians youngness ruled the track | V |
When songful beams were shut in caves | N |
And rainy drapery swept across | N |
When the ranked clouds were downy waves | N |
Breast of swan eagle albatross | N |
In ordered lines to screen the blue | W |
Youngest of light was nigh we knew | W |
The silver finger of it laughed | H |
Along the narrow rift it shot | H |
Slew the huge gloom with golden shaft | H |
Then haled on high the volumed blot | H |
To build the hurling palace cleave | X |
The dazzling chasm the flying nests | N |
The many glory garlands weave | X |
Whose presence not our sight attests | N |
Till wonder with the splendour blent | H |
And passion for the beauty flown | Y |
Make evanescence permanent | H |
The thing at heart our endless own | Y |
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Only at gathered eve knew we | Z |
The marvels of the day for then | A2 |
Mount upon mountain out of sea | Z |
Arose and to our spacious ken | A2 |
Trebled sublime Olympus round | H |
In towering amphitheatre | K |
Colossal on enormous mound | H |
Majestic gods we saw confer | K |
They wafted the Dream messenger | K |
From off the loftiest the crowned | H |
That Lady of the hues of foam | B2 |
In sun rays who close under dome | B2 |
A figure on the foot's descent | H |
Irradiate to vapour went | H |
As one whose mission was resigned | H |
Dispieced undraped dissolved to threads | N |
Melting she passed into the mind | H |
Where immortal with mortal weds | N |
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Whereby was known that we had viewed | H |
The union of our earth and skies | N |
Renewed nor less alive renewed | H |
Than when old bards in nature wise | N |
Conceived pure beauty given to eyes | N |
And with undyingness imbued | H |
Pageant of man's poetic brain | C2 |
His grand procession of the song | D2 |
It was the Muses and their train | C2 |
Their God to lead the glittering throng | D2 |
At whiles a beat of forest gong | D2 |
At whiles a glimpse of Python slain | C2 |
Mostly divinest harmony | Z |
The lyre the dance We could believe | X |
A life in orb and brook and tree | Z |
And cloud and still holds Memory | Z |
A morning in the eyes of eve | X |
George Meredith
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