Keramos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCB DEDFFEEFGGHHIEIEBCCB JKKJ LLBMMNB OOPQRPSTSUTUEEVVVVVV VWWXXYY ZFZFA2A2B2C2B2VVC2D2 VVVVVVVV E2E2BF2F2F2B G2G2G2G2VG2VV D2C2GGVG2G2VVG2G2VVG 2G2G2G2 G2G2B2B2VVVVV H2H2G2G2G2G2G2 UUMMI2G2G2I2G2G2J2G2 J2VVVV VVVG2VG2K2VK2VG2G2H2 L2L2VB2B2G2VG2G2VVVV ZZM2N2G2N2M2VG2VVM2L 2L2G2G2L2 ZZO2H2H2O2P2WWP2G2G2 Q2R2R2Q2G2 S2S2T2VT2T2VVVG2VVG2 G2 U2U2VVG2G2VVVVV2VG2V 2G2W2X2X2Y2 Z2Z2G2VVVG2 G2I2G2I2G2G2A3A3VVVV G2G2VVV G2G2VVVVG2VG2VB3B3G2 VVG2G2G2VVG2VG2G2V VVG2C3C3C3G2 G2G2D3G2D3D3VVH2H2H2 H2 G2VVG2G2G2E3VA3A3VE3 VN2N2VVN2VN2VVG2G2 G2G2VVVVF3F3VB3VB3 B3B3G2L2L2L2G2 VVMMG2VVG2A3A3G2A3 G2G2P2P2VD3D3G2VNMG2 G2G2 VVVG2VG2VG2NNZ2B3VVV G2G2V G2H2H2G2G2ZG3G2ZG3D3 D3 G3G3G2G2G2G2G2

Turn turn my wheel Turn round and round	A
Without a pause without a sound	A
So spins the flying world away	B
This clay well mixed with marl and sand	C
Follows the motion of my hand	C
Far some must follow and some command	C
Though all are made of clay	B
	-
Thus sang the Potter at his task	D
Beneath the blossoming hawthorn tree	E
While o'er his features like a mask	D
The quilted sunshine and leaf shade	F
Moved as the boughs above him swayed	F
And clothed him till he seemed to be	E
A figure woven in tapestry	E
So sumptuously was he arrayed	F
In that magnificent attire	G
Of sable tissue flaked with fire	G
Like a magician he appeared	H
A conjurer without book or beard	H
And while he plied his magic art	I
For it was magical to me	E
I stood in silence and apart	I
And wondered more and more to see	E
That shapeless lifeless mass of clay	B
Rise up to meet the master's hand	C
And now contract and now expand	C
And even his slightest touch obey	B
While ever in a thoughtful mood	J
He sang his ditty and at times	K
Whistled a tune between the rhymes	K
As a melodious interlude	J
	-
Turn turn my wheel All things must change	L
To something new to something strange	L
Nothing that is can pause or stay	B
The moon will wax the moon will wane	M
The mist and cloud will turn to rain	M
The rain to mist and cloud again	N
To morrow be to day	B
	-
Thus still the Potter sang and still	O
By some unconscious act of will	O
The melody and even the words	P
Were intermingled with my thought	Q
As bits of colored thread are caught	R
And woven into nests of birds	P
And thus to regions far remote	S
Beyond the ocean's vast expanse	T
This wizard in the motley coat	S
Transported me on wings of song	U
And by the northern shores of France	T
Bore me with restless speed along	U
What land is this that seems to be	E
A mingling of the land and sea	E
This land of sluices dikes and dunes	V
This water net that tessellates	V
The landscape this unending maze	V
Of gardens through whose latticed gates	V
The imprisoned pinks and tulips gaze	V
Where in long summer afternoons	V
The sunshine softened by the haze	V
Comes streaming down as through a screen	W
Where over fields and pastures green	W
The painted ships float high in air	X
And over all and everywhere	X
The sails of windmills sink and soar	Y
Like wings of sea gulls on the shore	Y
	-
What land is this Yon pretty town	Z
Is Delft with all its wares displayed	F
The pride the market place the crown	Z
And centre of the Potter's trade	F
See every house and room is bright	A2
With glimmers of reflected light	A2
From plates that on the dresser shine	B2
Flagons to foam with Flemish beer	C2
Or sparkle with the Rhenish wine	B2
And pilgrim flasks with fleurs de lis	V
And ships upon a rolling sea	V
And tankards pewter topped and queer	C2
With comic mask and musketeer	D2
Each hospitable chimney smiles	V
A welcome from its painted tiles	V
The parlor walls the chamber floors	V
The stairways and the corridors	V
The borders of the garden walks	V
Are beautiful with fadeless flowers	V
That never droop in winds or showers	V
And never wither on their stalks	V
	-
Turn turn my wheel All life is brief	E2
What now is bud wilt soon be leaf	E2
What now is leaf will soon decay	B
The wind blows east the wind blows west	F2
The blue eyes in the robin's nest	F2
Will soon have wings and beak and breast	F2
And flutter and fly away	B
	-
Now southward through the air I glide	G2
The song my only pursuivant	G2
And see across the landscape wide	G2
The blue Charente upon whose tide	G2
The belfries and the spires of Saintes	V
Ripple and rock from side to side	G2
As when an earthquake rends its walls	V
A crumbling city reels and falls	V
	-
Who is it in the suburbs here	D2
This Potter working with such cheer	C2
In this mean house this mean attire	G
His manly features bronzed with fire	G
Whose figulines and rustic wares	V
Scarce find him bread from day to day	G2
This madman as the people say	G2
Who breaks his tables and his chairs	V
To feed his furnace fires nor cares	V
Who goes unfed if they are fed	G2
Nor who may live if they are dead	G2
This alchemist with hollow cheeks	V
And sunken searching eyes who seeks	V
By mingled earths and ores combined	G2
With potency of fire to find	G2
Some new enamel hard and bright	G2
His dream his passion his delight	G2
	-
O Palissy within thy breast	G2
Burned the hot fever of unrest	G2
Thine was the prophets vision thine	B2
The exultation the divine	B2
Insanity of noble minds	V
That never falters nor abates	V
But labors and endures and waits	V
Till all that it foresees it finds	V
Or what it cannot find creates	V
	-
Turn turn my wheel This earthen jar	H2
A touch can make a touch can mar	H2
And shall it to the Potter say	G2
What makest thou Thou hast no hand	G2
As men who think to understand	G2
A world by their Creator planned	G2
Who wiser is than they	G2
	-
Still guided by the dreamy song	U
As in a trance I float along	U
Above the Pyrenean chain	M
Above the fields and farms of Spain	M
Above the bright Majorcan isle	I2
That lends its softened name to art	G2
A spot a dot upon the chart	G2
Whose little towns red roofed with tile	I2
Are ruby lustred with the light	G2
Of blazing furnaces by night	G2
And crowned by day with wreaths of smoke	J2
Then eastward wafted in my flight	G2
On my enchanter's magic cloak	J2
I sail across the Tyrrhene Sea	V
Into the land of Italy	V
And o'er the windy Apennines	V
Mantled and musical with pines	V
	-
The palaces the princely halls	V
The doors of houses and the walls	V
Of churches and of belfry towers	V
Cloister and castle street and mart	G2
Are garlanded and gay with flowers	V
That blossom in the fields of art	G2
Here Gubbio's workshops gleam and glow	K2
With brilliant iridescent dyes	V
The dazzling whiteness of the snow	K2
The cobalt blue of summer skies	V
And vase and scutcheon cup and plate	G2
In perfect finish emulate	G2
Faenza Florence Pesaro	H2
	-
Forth from Urbino's gate there came	L2
A youth with the angelic name	L2
Of Raphael in form and face	V
Himself angelic and divine	B2
In arts of color and design	B2
From him Francesco Xanto caught	G2
Something of his transcendent grace	V
And into fictile fabrics wrought	G2
Suggestions of the master's thought	G2
Nor less Maestro Giorgio shines	V
With madre perl and golden lines	V
Of arabesques and interweaves	V
His birds and fruits and flowers and leaves	V
About some landscape shaded brown	Z
With olive tints on rock and town	Z
Behold this cup within whose bowl	M2
Upon a ground of deepest blue	N2
With yellow lustred stars o'erlaid	G2
Colors of every tint and hue	N2
Mingle in one harmonious whole	M2
With large blue eyes and steadfast gaze	V
Her yellow hair in net and braid	G2
Necklace and ear rings all ablaze	V
With golden lustre o'er the glaze	V
A woman's portrait on the scroll	M2
Cana the Beautiful A name	L2
Forgotten save for such brief fame	L2
As this memorial can bestow	G2
A gift some lover long ago	G2
Gave with his heart to this fair dame	L2
	-
A nobler title to renown	Z
Is thine O pleasant Tuscan town	Z
Seated beside the Arno's stream	O2
For Lucca della Robbia there	H2
Created forms so wondrous fair	H2
They made thy sovereignty supreme	O2
These choristers with lips of stone	P2
Whose music is not heard but seen	W
Still chant as from their organ screen	W
Their Maker's praise nor these alone	P2
But the more fragile forms of clay	G2
Hardly less beautiful than they	G2
These saints and angels that adorn	Q2
The walls of hospitals and tell	R2
The story of good deeds so well	R2
That poverty seems less forlorn	Q2
And life more like a holiday	G2
	-
Here in this old neglected church	S2
That long eludes the traveller's search	S2
Lies the dead bishop on his tomb	T2
Earth upon earth he slumbering lies	V
Life like and death like in the gloom	T2
Garlands of fruit and flowers in bloom	T2
And foliage deck his resting place	V
A shadow in the sightless eyes	V
A pallor on the patient face	V
Made perfect by the furnace heat	G2
All earthly passions and desires	V
Burnt out by purgatorial fires	V
Seeming to say Our years are fleet	G2
And to the weary death is sweet	G2
	-
But the most wonderful of all	U2
The ornaments on tomb or wall	U2
That grace the fair Ausonian shores	V
Are those the faithful earth restores	V
Near some Apulian town concealed	G2
In vineyard or in harvest field	G2
Vases and urns and bas reliefs	V
Memorials of forgotten griefs	V
Or records of heroic deeds	V
Of demigods and mighty chiefs	V
Figures that almost move and speak	V2
And buried amid mould and weeds	V
Still in their attitudes attest	G2
The presence of the graceful Greek	V2
Achilles in his armor dressed	G2
Alcides with the Cretan bull	W2
And Aphrodite with her boy	X2
Or lovely Helena of Troy	X2
Still living and still beautiful	Y2
	-
Turn turn my wheel 'T is nature's plan	Z2
The child should grow into the man	Z2
The man grow wrinkled old and gray	G2
In youth the heart exults and sings	V
The pulses leap the feet have wings	V
In age the cricket chirps and brings	V
The harvest home of day	G2
	-
And now the winds that southward blow	G2
And cool the hot Sicilian isle	I2
Bear me away I see below	G2
The long line of the Libyan Nile	I2
Flooding and feeding the parched land	G2
With annual ebb and overflow	G2
A fallen palm whose branches lie	A3
Beneath the Abyssinian sky	A3
Whose roots are in Egyptian sands	V
On either bank huge water wheels	V
Belted with jars and dripping weeds	V
Send forth their melancholy moans	V
As if in their gray mantles hid	G2
Dead anchorites of the Thebaid	G2
Knelt on the shore and told their beads	V
Beating their breasts with loud appeals	V
And penitential tears and groans	V
	-
This city walled and thickly set	G2
With glittering mosque and minaret	G2
Is Cairo in whose gay bazaars	V
The dreaming traveller first inhales	V
The perfume of Arabian gales	V
And sees the fabulous earthen jars	V
Huge as were those wherein the maid	G2
Morgiana found the Forty Thieves	V
Concealed in midnight ambuscade	G2
And seeing more than half believes	V
The fascinating tales that run	B3
Through all the Thousand Nights and One	B3
Told by the fair Scheherezade	G2
	-
More strange and wonderful than these	V
Are the Egyptian deities	V
Ammonn and Emeth and the grand	G2
Osiris holding in his hand	G2
The lotus Isis crowned and veiled	G2
The sacred Ibis and the Sphinx	V
Bracelets with blue enamelled links	V
The Scarabee in emerald mailed	G2
Or spreading wide his funeral wings	V
Lamps that perchance their night watch kept	G2
O'er Cleopatra while she slept	G2
All plundered from the tombs of kings	V
	-
Turn turn my wheel The human race	V
Of every tongue of every place	V
Caucasian Coptic or Malay	G2
All that inhabit this great earth	C3
Whatever be their rank or worth	C3
Are kindred and allied by birth	C3
And made of the same clay	G2
	-
O'er desert sands o'er gulf and bay	G2
O'er Ganges and o'er Himalay	G2
Bird like I fly and flying sing	D3
To flowery kingdoms of Cathay	G2
And bird like poise on balanced wing	D3
Above the town of King te tching	D3
A burning town or seeming so	V
Three thousand furnaces that glow	V
Incessantly and fill the air	H2
With smoke uprising gyre on gyre	H2
And painted by the lurid glare	H2
Of jets and flashes of red fire	H2
	-
As leaves that in the autumn fall	G2
Spotted and veined with various hues	V
Are swept along the avenues	V
And lie in heaps by hedge and wall	G2
So from this grove of chimneys whirled	G2
To all the markets of the world	G2
These porcelain leaves are wafted on	E3
Light yellow leaves with spots and stains	V
Of violet and of crimson dye	A3
Or tender azure of a sky	A3
Just washed by gentle April rains	V
And beautiful with celadon	E3
	-
Nor less the coarser household wares	V
The willow pattern that we knew	N2
In childhood with its bridge of blue	N2
Leading to unknown thoroughfares	V
The solitary man who stares	V
At the white river flowing through	N2
Its arches the fantastic trees	V
And wild perspective of the view	N2
And intermingled among these	V
The tiles that in our nurseries	V
Filled us with wonder and delight	G2
Or haunted us in dreams at night	G2
	-
And yonder by Nankin behold	G2
The Tower of Porcelain strange and old	G2
Uplifting to the astonished skies	V
Its ninefold painted balconies	V
With balustrades of twining leaves	V
And roofs of tile beneath whose eaves	V
Hang porcelain bells that all the time	F3
Ring with a soft melodious chime	F3
While the whole fabric is ablaze	V
With varied tints all fused in one	B3
Great mass of color like a maze	V
Of flowers illumined by the sun	B3
	-
Turn turn my wheel What is begun	B3
At daybreak must at dark be done	B3
To morrow will be another day	G2
To morrow the hot furnace flame	L2
Will search the heart and try the frame	L2
And stamp with honor or with shame	L2
These vessels made of clay	G2
	-
Cradled and rocked in Eastern seas	V
The islands of the Japanese	V
Beneath me lie o'er lake and plain	M
The stork the heron and the crane	M
Through the clear realms of azure drift	G2
And on the hillside I can see	V
The villages of Imari	V
Whose thronged and flaming workshops lift	G2
Their twisted columns of smoke on high	A3
Cloud cloisters that in ruins lie	A3
With sunshine streaming through each rift	G2
And broken arches of blue sky	A3
	-
All the bright flowers that fill the land	G2
Ripple of waves on rock or sand	G2
The snow on Fusiyama's cone	P2
The midnight heaven so thickly sown	P2
With constellations of bright stars	V
The leaves that rustle the reeds that make	D3
A whisper by each stream and lake	D3
The saffron dawn the sunset red	G2
Are painted on these lovely jars	V
Again the skylark sings again	N
The stork the heron and the crane	M
Float through the azure overhead	G2
The counterfeit and counterpart	G2
Of Nature reproduced in Art	G2
	-
Art is the child of Nature yes	V
Her darling child in whom we trace	V
The features of the mother's face	V
Her aspect and her attitude	G2
All her majestic loveliness	V
Chastened and softened and subdued	G2
Into a more attractive grace	V
And with a human sense imbued	G2
He is the greatest artist then	N
Whether of pencil or of pen	N
Who follows Nature Never man	Z2
As artist or as artisan	B3
Pursuing his own fantasies	V
Can touch the human heart or please	V
Or satisfy our nobler needs	V
As he who sets his willing feet	G2
In Nature's footprints light and fleet	G2
And follows fearless where she leads	V
	-
Thus mused I on that morn in May	G2
Wrapped in my visions like the Seer	H2
Whose eyes behold not what is near	H2
But only what is far away	G2
When suddenly sounding peal on peal	G2
The church bell from the neighboring town	Z
Proclaimed the welcome hour of noon	G3
The Potter heard and stopped his wheel	G2
His apron on the grass threw down	Z
Whistled his quiet little tune	G3
Not overloud nor overlong	D3
And ended thus his simple song	D3
	-
Stop stop my wheel Too soon too soon	G3
The noon will be the afternoon	G3
Too soon to day be yesterday	G2
Behind us in our path we cast	G2
The broken potsherds of the past	G2
And all are ground to dust a last	G2
And trodden into clay	G2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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