Quatrains To The Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCB A DDED A FFGF HHIH JJKJI | A |
A sunfort flourished in my sunless heart | B |
Beyond the Sun Here in a tower apart | B |
The sunbirds of my lady's eyes were caged | C |
Alas poor targets for the sun god's dart | B |
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II | A |
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The Sun at Chartres seen through an open door | D |
Was like a nest wherein I hatched a score | D |
Of red gold sun thoughts Now unheralded | E |
They change to sun nymphs on my heart's dark shore | D |
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III | A |
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The Sun at noon is like a pool of gold | F |
Towards whose uncertain brink the clouds have rolled | F |
To quench their thirst Likewise the invisible winds | G |
Drink fire and all my heart is sun consoled | F |
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IV | - |
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Like to a giant dragon in his cage | H |
Of clouds the Sun in unconceal d rage | H |
Glares down across the magic of the world | I |
Intent upon this untried pasturage | H |
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V | - |
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The Sun is a red arrow plunged to rest | J |
In the dark target of the sea's wild breast | J |
But morning shall unveil the gentle scene | K |
Of sun girls bathing in a palimpsest | J |
Harry Crosby
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