On Waking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DBEFG HIBJKL BMNOP QRSTTB TTTTTUVTWTTTXYZA| Sleep gray brother of death | A |
| Has touched me | B |
| And passed on | C |
| - | |
| I arise facing the east | D |
| Pearl doored sanctuary | B |
| From which the light | E |
| Hand linked with dew and fire | F |
| Dances | G |
| - | |
| Hail essence hail | H |
| Fill the windows of my soul | I |
| With beauty | B |
| Pierce and renew my bones | J |
| Pour knowledge into my heart | K |
| As wine | L |
| - | |
| Cualann is bright before thee | B |
| Its rocks melt and swim | M |
| The secret they have kept | N |
| From the ancient nights of darkness | O |
| Flies like a bird | P |
| - | |
| What mourns | Q |
| Cualann's secret flying | R |
| A lost voice | S |
| In endless fields | T |
| What rejoices | T |
| My voice lifted praising thee | B |
| - | |
| Praise Praise Praise | T |
| Praise out of the trumpets whose brass | T |
| Is the unyoked strength of bulls | T |
| Praise upon the harp whose strings | T |
| Are the light movement of birds | T |
| Praise of leaf praise of blossom | U |
| Praise of the red fibred clay | V |
| Praise of grass | T |
| Fire woven veil of the temple | W |
| Praise of the shapes of clouds | T |
| Praise of the shadows of wells | T |
| Praise of worms of fetal things | T |
| And of things in time's thought | X |
| Not yet begotten | Y |
| To thee queller of sleep | Z |
| Looser of the snare of death | A |
Joseph Campbell
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