An Interregnum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJK LMNOBPBAQRBSTE FUBVWXBBYZA2B2C2| LOUD trumpets blow among the naked pines | A |
| Fine spun as sere cloth rent from royal dead | B |
| Seen ghostly thro' high lifted vagrant drifts | C |
| Shrill blaring but no longer loud to moons | D |
| Like a brown maid of Egypt stands the Earth | E |
| Her empty valley palms stretched to the Sun | F |
| For largesse of his gold Her mountain tops | G |
| Still beacon winter with white flame of snow | H |
| Fading along his track her rivers shake | I |
| Wild manes and paw their banks as though to flee | J |
| Their riven fetters | K |
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| Lawless is the time | L |
| Full of loud kingless voices that way gone | M |
| The Polar Caesar striding to the north | N |
| Nor yet the sapphire gated south unfolds | O |
| For Spring's sweet progress the winds unkinged | B |
| Reach gusty hands of riot round the brows | P |
| Of lordly mountains waiting for a lord | B |
| And pluck the ragged beards of lonely pines | A |
| Watchers on heights for that sweet hidden king | Q |
| Bud crowned and dreaming yet on other shores | R |
| And mock their patient waiting But by night | B |
| The round Moon falters up a softer sky | S |
| Drawn by silver cords of gentler stars | T |
| Than darted chill flames on the wintry earth | E |
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| Within his azure battlements the Sun | F |
| Regilds his face with joyance for he sees | U |
| From those high towers Spring earth's fairest lord | B |
| Soft cradled on the wings of rising swans | V |
| With violet eyes slow budding into smiles | W |
| And small bright hands with blossom largesse full | X |
| Crowned with an orchard coronal of white | B |
| And with a sceptre of a ruddy reed | B |
| Burnt at its top to amethystine bloom | Y |
| Come Lord thy kingdom stretches barren hands | Z |
| Come King and chain thy rebels to thy throne | A2 |
| With tendrils of vine and jewelled links | B2 |
| Of ruddy buds pulsating into flower | C2 |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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