The Bridge: Atlantis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGB HIJJKKLG MNNOPQNN GRNSTNUN NVKWXYHN NYZGNA2B2G REC2END2NN NE2QF2IGGG G2H2F2NRI2NJ2 K2NJ2WNNGN NJ2L2M2F2J2NJ2 GN2NO2B2QNQ| Through the bound cable strands the arching path | A |
| Upward veering with light the flight of strings | B |
| Taut miles of shuttling moonlight syncopate | C |
| The whispered rush telepathy of wires | D |
| Up the index of night granite and steel | E |
| Transparent meshes fleckless the gleaming staves | F |
| Sibylline voices flicker waveringly stream | G |
| As though a god were issue of the strings | B |
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| And through that cordage threading with its call | H |
| One arc synoptic of all tides below | I |
| Their labyrinthine mouths of history | J |
| Pouring reply as though all ships at sea | J |
| Complighted in one vibrant breath made cry | K |
| Make thy love sure to weave whose song we ply | K |
| From black embankments moveless soundings hailed | L |
| So seven oceans answer from their dream | G |
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| And on obliquely up bright carrier bars | M |
| New octaves trestle the twin monoliths | N |
| Beyond whose frosted capes the moon bequeaths | N |
| Two worlds of sleep O arching strands of song | O |
| Onward and up the crystal flooded aisle | P |
| White tempest nets file upward upward ring | Q |
| With silver terraces the humming spars | N |
| The loft of vision palladium helm of stars | N |
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| Sheerly the eyes like seagulls stung with rime | G |
| Slit and propelled by glistening fins of light | R |
| Pick biting way up towering looms that press | N |
| Sidelong with flight of blade on tendon blade | S |
| Tomorrows into yesteryear and link | T |
| What cipher script of time no traveller reads | N |
| But who through smoking pyres of love and death | U |
| Searches the timeless laugh of mythic spears | N |
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| Like hails farewells up planet sequined heights | N |
| Some trillion whispering hammers glimmer Tyre | V |
| Serenely sharply up the long anvil cry | K |
| Of inchling aeons silence rivets Troy | W |
| And you aloft there Jason hesting Shout | X |
| Still wrapping harness to the swarming air | Y |
| Silvery the rushing wake surpassing call | H |
| Beams yelling Aeolus splintered in the straits | N |
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| From gulfs unfolding terrible of drums | N |
| Tall Vision of the Voyage tensely spare | Y |
| Bridge lifting night to cycloramic crest | Z |
| Of deepest day O Choir translating time | G |
| Into what multitudinous Verb the suns | N |
| And synergy of waters ever fuse recast | A2 |
| In myriad syllables Psalm of Cathay | B2 |
| O Love thy white pervasive Paradigm | G |
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| We left the haven hanging in the night | R |
| Sheened harbor lanterns backward fled the keel | E |
| Pacific here at time s end bearing corn | C2 |
| Eyes stammer through the pangs of dust and steel | E |
| And still the circular indubitable frieze | N |
| Of heaven s meditation yoking wave | D2 |
| To kneeling wave one song devoutly binds | N |
| The vernal strophe chimes from deathless strings | N |
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| O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits | N |
| The agile precincts of the lark s return | E2 |
| Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing | Q |
| In single chrysalis the many twain | F2 |
| Of stars Thou art the stitch and stallion glow | I |
| And like an organ Thou with sound of doom | G |
| Sight sound and flesh Thou leadest from time s realm | G |
| As love strikes clear direction for the helm | G |
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| Swift peal of secular light intrinsic Myth | G2 |
| Whose fell unshadow is death s utter wound | H2 |
| O River throated iridescently upborne | F2 |
| Through the bright drench and fabric of our veins | N |
| With white escarpments swinging into light | R |
| Sustained in tears the cities are endowed | I2 |
| And justified conclamant with ripe fields | N |
| Revolving through their harvests in sweet torment | J2 |
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| Forever Deity s glittering Pledge O Thou | K2 |
| Whose canticle fresh chemistry assigns | N |
| To wrapt inception and beatitude | J2 |
| Always through blinding cables to our joy | W |
| Of thy white seizure springs the prophecy | N |
| Always through spiring cordage pyramids | N |
| Of silver sequel Deity s young name | G |
| Kinetic of white choiring wings ascends | N |
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| Migrations that must needs void memory | N |
| Inventions that cobblestone the heart | J2 |
| Unspeakable Thou Bridge to Thee O Love | L2 |
| Thy pardon for this history whitest Flower | M2 |
| O Answerer of all Anemone | F2 |
| Now while thy petals spend the suns about us hold | J2 |
| O Thou whose radiance doth inherit me | N |
| Atlantis hold thy floating singer late | J2 |
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| So to thine Everpresence beyond time | G |
| Like spears ensanguined of one tolling star | N2 |
| That bleeds infinity the orphic strings | N |
| Sidereal phalanxes leap and converge | O2 |
| One Song one Bridge of Fire Is it Cathay | B2 |
| Now pity steeps the grass and rainbows ring | Q |
| The serpent with the eagle in the leaves | N |
| Whispers antiphonal in azure swing | Q |
Harold Hart Crane
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