The Occultation Of Orion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBB BBCCDEFFGHIGGIJJKL MMNNBOPQQBBBQQ BBRRBBFFQN KKOSSOBBNNOTTO BBQQIIBBUVQQ| I saw as in a dream sublime | A |
| The balance in the hand of Time | A |
| O'er East and West its beam impended | B |
| And day with all its hours of light | B |
| Was slowly sinking out of sight | B |
| While opposite the scale of night | B |
| Silently with the stars ascended | B |
| - | |
| Like the astrologers of eld | B |
| In that bright vision I beheld | B |
| Greater and deeper mysteries | C |
| I saw with its celestial keys | C |
| Its chords of air its frets of fire | D |
| The Samian's great Aeolian lyre | E |
| Rising through all its sevenfold bars | F |
| From earth unto the fixed stars | F |
| And through the dewy atmosphere | G |
| Not only could I see but hear | H |
| Its wondrous and harmonious strings | I |
| In sweet vibration sphere by sphere | G |
| From Dian's circle light and near | G |
| Onward to vaster and wider rings | I |
| Where chanting through his beard of snows | J |
| Majestic mournful Saturn goes | J |
| And down the sunless realms of space | K |
| Reverberates the thunder of his bass | L |
| - | |
| Beneath the sky's triumphal arch | M |
| This music sounded like a march | M |
| And with its chorus seemed to be | N |
| Preluding some great tragedy | N |
| Sirius was rising in the east | B |
| And slow ascending one by one | O |
| The kindling constellations shone | P |
| Begirt with many a blazing star | Q |
| Stood the great giant Algebar | Q |
| Orion hunter of the beast | B |
| His sword hung gleaming by his side | B |
| And on his arm the lion's hide | B |
| Scattered across the midnight air | Q |
| The golden radiance of its hair | Q |
| - | |
| The moon was pallid but not faint | B |
| And beautiful as some fair saint | B |
| Serenely moving on her way | R |
| In hours of trial and dismay | R |
| As if she heard the voice of God | B |
| Unharmed with naked feet she trod | B |
| Upon the hot and burning stars | F |
| As on the glowing coals and bars | F |
| That were to prove her strength and try | Q |
| Her holiness and her purity | N |
| - | |
| Thus moving on with silent pace | K |
| And triumph in her sweet pale face | K |
| She reached the station of Orion | O |
| Aghast he stood in strange alarm | S |
| And suddenly from his outstretched arm | S |
| Down fell the red skin of the lion | O |
| Into the river at his feet | B |
| His mighty club no longer beat | B |
| The forehead of the bull but he | N |
| Reeled as of yore beside the sea | N |
| When blinded by Oenopion | O |
| He sought the blacksmith at his forge | T |
| And climbing up the mountain gorge | T |
| Fixed his blank eyes upon the sun | O |
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| Then through the silence overhead | B |
| An angel with a trumpet said | B |
| Forevermore forevermore | Q |
| The reign of violence is o'er | Q |
| And like an instrument that flings | I |
| Its music on another's strings | I |
| The trumpet of the angel cast | B |
| Upon the heavenly lyre its blast | B |
| And on from sphere to sphere the words | U |
| Re echoed down the burning chords | V |
| Forevermore forevermore | Q |
| The reign of violence is o'er | Q |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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