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 M2XN2XStrong pinions bore Safi the dreamer | A |
Through the dazzle and whirl of a race | B |
And the earth raying up in confusion | C |
Like a sea thundered under his face | B |
And the earth raying up in confusion | C |
Passed flying and flying afar | D |
Till it dropped like a moon into silence | E |
And waned from a moon to a star | D |
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Was it light was it shadow he followed | F |
That he swept through those desperate tracts | G |
With his hair beating back on his shoulders | H |
Like the tops of the wind hackled flax | I |
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I come murmured Safi the dreamer | A |
I come but thou fliest before | J |
But thy way hath the breath of the honey | K |
And the scent of the myrrh evermore | J |
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His eyes were the eyes of a watcher | A |
Held on by luxurious faith | L |
And his lips were the lips of a longer | A |
Amazed with the beauty of Death | M |
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For ever and ever he murmured | N |
My love for the sweetness with thee | K |
Do I follow thy footsteps said Safi | O |
Like the wind on a measureless sea | K |
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And fronting the furthermost spaces | P |
He kept through the distances dim | Q |
Till the days and the years and the cycles | R |
Were lost and forgotten by him | Q |
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When he came to the silver star portals | R |
The Queen of that wonderful place | B |
Looked forth from her towers resplendent | S |
And started and dreamed in his face | B |
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And one said This is Safi the Only | K |
Who lived in a planet below | T |
And housed him apart from his fellows | U |
A million of ages ago | T |
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He erred if he suffers to clutch at | V |
High lights from the wood and the street | W |
Not caring to see how his brothers | H |
Were content with the things at their feet | W |
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But she whispered Ah turn to the stranger | A |
He looks like a lord of the land | X |
For his eyes are the eyes of an angel | Y |
And the thought on his forehead is grand | X |
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Is there never a peace for the sinner | A |
Whose sin is in this that he mars | Z |
The light of his worship of Beauty | K |
Forgetting the flower for the stars | Z |
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Behold him my Sister immortal | Y |
And doubt that he knoweth his shame | A2 |
Who raves in the shadow for sweetness | B2 |
And gloats on the ghost of a flame | A2 |
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His sin is his sin if he suffers | H |
Who wilfully straitened the truth | C2 |
And his doom is his doom if he follows | U |
A lie without sorrow or ruth | C2 |
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And another from uttermost verges | D2 |
Ran out with a terrible voice | E2 |
Let him go it is well that he goeth | C2 |
Though he break with the lot of his choice | E2 |
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I come murmured Safi the dreamer | A |
I come but thou fliest before | J |
But thy way hath the breath of the honey | K |
And the scent of the myrrh evermore | J |
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My Queen said the first of the Voices | P |
He hunteth a perilous wraith | C2 |
Arrayed with voluptuous fancies | F2 |
And ringed with tyrannical faith | C2 |
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Wound up in the heart of his error | A |
He must sweep through the silences dire | G2 |
Like one in the dark of a desert | H2 |
Allured by fallacious fire | A |
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And she faltered and asked like a doubter | A |
When he hangs on those Spaces sublime | I2 |
With the Terror that knoweth no limit | J2 |
And holdeth no record of Time | I2 |
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Forgotten of God and the demons | K2 |
Will he keep to his fancy amain | K |
Can he live for that horrible chaos | L2 |
Of flame and perpetual rain | K |
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But an answer as soft as a prayer | M2 |
Fell down from a high hidden land | X |
And the words were the words of a language | N2 |
Which none but the gods understand | X |
Henry Kendall
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