Beyond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHIJDKLMNJO PQRSTUVWXYZEEYTNA2TT B2ITYEC2D2E2ENE2KTF2 G2JTH2I2J2TEETEEETH2 J2VK2L2A2M2EVN2EA2 O2P2TQ2 ELVTR2N2TS2TEH2EET2E WEJTKWhite haired and hoary bearded who art thou | A |
That speedest on albeit bent with age | B |
Even as a youth that followeth after dreams | C |
Whence are thy feet and whither trends thy way | D |
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Stayed not his hurried steps but as he passed | E |
His low hoarse answer fell upon the wind | F |
Go thou and question yonder mountain peaks | G |
Go thou and ask the hoary heaving main | H |
Nay if thou wilt the great globed silent stars | I |
That sail innumerable the shoreless sea | J |
And let the eldest answer if he may | D |
Lo the unnumbered myriad myriad worlds | K |
Rolling around innumerable suns | L |
Through all the boundless bottomless abyss | M |
Are but as grains of sand upwhirled and flung | N |
By roaring winds and scattered on the sea | J |
I have beheld them and my hand hath sown | O |
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Far twinkling faint through dim immeasured depths | P |
Behold Alcyone a grander sun | Q |
Round him thy solar orb with all his brood | R |
Glimmering revolves Lo from yon mightier sphere | S |
Light flying faster than the thoughts of men | T |
Swift as the lightnings cleave the glowering storm | U |
Shot on and on through dim ethereal space | V |
Ere yet it touched thy little orb of Earth | W |
Five hundred cycles of thy world and more | X |
Round him thy Sun obedient to his power | Y |
Thrice tenfold swifter than the swiftest wing | Z |
His aeon orbit million yeared and vast | E |
Wheels through the void Him flaming I beheld | E |
When first he flashed from out his central fire | Y |
A mightier orb beyond thine utmost ken | T |
Round upon round innumerable hath swung | N |
Thy sun upon his circuit grander still | A2 |
His vaster orbit far Alcyone | T |
Wheels and obeys the mightier orb unseen | T |
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Seest thou yon star paved pathway like an arch | B2 |
Athwart thy welkin wondrous zone of stars | I |
Dim in the distance circling one huge sun | T |
To whom thy sun is but a spark of fire | Y |
To whom thine Earth is but a grain of dust | E |
Glimmering around him myriad suns revolve | C2 |
And worlds innumerable as sea beach sands | D2 |
Ere on yon Via Lactea rolled one star | E2 |
Lo I was there and trode the mighty round | E |
Yea ere the central orb was fired and hung | N |
A lamp to light the chaos Star on star | E2 |
System on system myriad worlds on worlds | K |
Beyond the utmost reach of mortal ken | T |
Beyond the utmost flight of mortal dream | F2 |
Yet have mine eyes beheld the birth of all | G2 |
But whence I am I know not We are three | J |
Known yet unknown unfathomable to man | T |
Time Space and Matter pregnant with all life | H2 |
Immortals older than the oldest orb | I2 |
We were and are forever out of us | J2 |
Are all things suns and satellites midge and man | T |
Worlds wax and wane suns flame and glow and die | E |
Through shoreless space their scattered ashes float | E |
Unite cohere and wax to worlds again | T |
Changing yet changless new but ever old | E |
No atom lost and not one atom gained | E |
Though fire to vapor melt the adamant | E |
Or feldspar fall in drops of summer rain | T |
And in the atoms sleep the germs of life | H2 |
Myriad and multiform and marvelous | J2 |
Throughout all vast immeasurable space | V |
In every grain of dust in every drop | K2 |
Of water waiting but the thermal touch | L2 |
Yea in the womb of nature slumber still | A2 |
Wonders undreamed and forms beyond compare | M2 |
Minds that will cleave the chaos and unwind | E |
The web of fate and from the atom trace | V |
The worlds the suns the universal law | N2 |
And from the law the Master yea and read | E |
On yon grand starry scroll the Master's will | A2 |
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Yea but what Master Lift the veil O Time | O2 |
Where lie the bounds of Space and whither dwells | P2 |
The Power unseen the infinite Unknown | T |
Faint from afar the solemn answer fell | Q2 |
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AEon on aeon cycles myriad yeared | E |
Swifter than light out flashing from the suns | L |
My flying feet have sought the bounds of space | V |
And found not nor the infinite Unknown | T |
I see the Master only in his work | R2 |
I see the Ruler only in his law | N2 |
Time hath not touched the great All father's throne | T |
Whose voice unheard the Universe obeys | S2 |
Who breathes upon the deep and worlds are born | T |
Worlds wax and wane suns crumble into dust | E |
But matter pregnant with immortal life | H2 |
Since erst the white haired centuries wheeled the vast | E |
Hath lost nor gained Who made it and who made | E |
The Maker Out of nothing nothing Lo | T2 |
The worm that crawls from out the sun touched sand | E |
What knows he of the huge round rolling Earth | W |
Yet more than thou of all the vast Beyond | E |
Or ever wilt Content thee let it be | J |
Know only this there is a Power unknown | T |
Master of life and Maker of the worlds | K |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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