A Prelude, And A Bird's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBACAAADBDEEEFFAAA AGHHG AHHIHIAHIAAJAAKALAMA AThe poet's song and the bird's | A |
And the waters' that chant as they run | B |
And the waves' that kiss the beach | C |
And the wind's they are but one | B |
He who may read their words | A |
And the secret hid in each | C |
May know the solemn monochords | A |
That breathe in vast still places | A |
And the voices of myriad races | A |
Shy and far off from man | D |
That hide in shadow and sun | B |
And are seen but of him who can | D |
To him the awful face is shown | E |
Swathed in a cloud wind blown | E |
Of Him who from His secret throne | E |
In some void shadowy and unknown land | F |
Comes forth to lay His mighty hand | F |
On the sounding organ keys | A |
That play deep thunder marches | A |
Like the rush and the roar of seas | A |
And fill the cavernous arches | A |
Of antique wildernesses hoary | G |
With a long resounding roll | H |
As they fill man's listening soul | H |
With a shuddering sense of might and glory | G |
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These he shall hear and more than these | A |
In bird's song and in poet's scroll | H |
Something underneath the whole | H |
A music yet unbreathed unsung | I |
Unwritten incommunicable | H |
Whispered from no mortal tongue | I |
What seer nor prophet may rehearse | A |
In oracle or Delphic fable | H |
Since the old dead gods were young | I |
And made with man their dwelling place | A |
But he shall hear of all his race | A |
The dread wherefore of life and death | J |
He shall behold the ultimates | A |
Of fears and doubts and scores and hates | A |
And the sure final crown of faith | K |
And in his ear the rhythmic verse | A |
Shall sound the steps of that beyond | L |
Serene that hastens not nor waits | A |
But holds within its depths profound | M |
The mystery of all lives all fates | A |
The secret of the universe | A |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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