Safi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDED FGHI AJKJ ALAM NKOK PQRQ RBSB KTUT VWHW AXYX AZKZ YA2B2A2 HC2UC2 D2E2C2E2 AJKJ PC2F2C2 AG2H2A AI2J2I2 K2KL2K M2XN2X

Strong pinions bore Safi the dreamerA
Through the dazzle and whirl of a raceB
And the earth raying up in confusionC
Like a sea thundered under his faceB
And the earth raying up in confusionC
Passed flying and flying afarD
Till it dropped like a moon into silenceE
And waned from a moon to a starD
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Was it light was it shadow he followedF
That he swept through those desperate tractsG
With his hair beating back on his shouldersH
Like the tops of the wind hackled flaxI
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I come murmured Safi the dreamerA
I come but thou fliest beforeJ
But thy way hath the breath of the honeyK
And the scent of the myrrh evermoreJ
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His eyes were the eyes of a watcherA
Held on by luxurious faithL
And his lips were the lips of a longerA
Amazed with the beauty of DeathM
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For ever and ever he murmuredN
My love for the sweetness with theeK
Do I follow thy footsteps said SafiO
Like the wind on a measureless seaK
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And fronting the furthermost spacesP
He kept through the distances dimQ
Till the days and the years and the cyclesR
Were lost and forgotten by himQ
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When he came to the silver star portalsR
The Queen of that wonderful placeB
Looked forth from her towers resplendentS
And started and dreamed in his faceB
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And one said This is Safi the OnlyK
Who lived in a planet belowT
And housed him apart from his fellowsU
A million of ages agoT
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He erred if he suffers to clutch atV
High lights from the wood and the streetW
Not caring to see how his brothersH
Were content with the things at their feetW
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But she whispered Ah turn to the strangerA
He looks like a lord of the landX
For his eyes are the eyes of an angelY
And the thought on his forehead is grandX
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Is there never a peace for the sinnerA
Whose sin is in this that he marsZ
The light of his worship of BeautyK
Forgetting the flower for the starsZ
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Behold him my Sister immortalY
And doubt that he knoweth his shameA2
Who raves in the shadow for sweetnessB2
And gloats on the ghost of a flameA2
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His sin is his sin if he suffersH
Who wilfully straitened the truthC2
And his doom is his doom if he followsU
A lie without sorrow or ruthC2
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And another from uttermost vergesD2
Ran out with a terrible voiceE2
Let him go it is well that he goethC2
Though he break with the lot of his choiceE2
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I come murmured Safi the dreamerA
I come but thou fliest beforeJ
But thy way hath the breath of the honeyK
And the scent of the myrrh evermoreJ
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My Queen said the first of the VoicesP
He hunteth a perilous wraithC2
Arrayed with voluptuous fanciesF2
And ringed with tyrannical faithC2
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Wound up in the heart of his errorA
He must sweep through the silences direG2
Like one in the dark of a desertH2
Allured by fallacious fireA
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And she faltered and asked like a doubterA
When he hangs on those Spaces sublimeI2
With the Terror that knoweth no limitJ2
And holdeth no record of TimeI2
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Forgotten of God and the demonsK2
Will he keep to his fancy amainK
Can he live for that horrible chaosL2
Of flame and perpetual rainK
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But an answer as soft as a prayerM2
Fell down from a high hidden landX
And the words were the words of a languageN2
Which none but the gods understandX

Henry Kendall



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