Beyond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HHGG IJGG KKLL GGGG MDGG| Cloudy argosies are drifting down into the purple dark | A |
| And the long low amber reaches lying on the horizon's mark | A |
| Shape themselves into the gateways dim and wonderful unfurled | B |
| Gateways leading through' the sunset out into the underworld | B |
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| How my spirit vainly flutters like a bird that beats the bars | C |
| To be launched upon that ocean with its tides of throbbing stars | C |
| To be gone beyond the sunset and the day's revolving zone | D |
| Out into the primal darkness and the world of the unknown | D |
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| Hints and guesses of its grandeur broken shadows sudden gleams | E |
| Like a falling star shoot past me quenched within a sea of dreams | E |
| But the unimagined glory lying in the dark beyond | F |
| Is to these as morn to midnight or as silence is to sound | G |
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| Sweeter than the trees of Eden dropping purple blooms and balm | H |
| Are the odors wafted toward me from its isles of windless calm | H |
| And the gold of all our sunsets with their sapphire all impearled | G |
| Would not match the fused and glowing heaven of that under world | G |
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| Pale sea buds there weep forever water lilies damp and cool | I |
| And the mystic lotus shining through its white waves beautiful | J |
| In those dusk and sunless valleys where no steps of mortals tread | G |
| Bind the white brows of the living whom we blindly call the dead | G |
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| Oh ye lost ones ye departed who have passed that silent shore | K |
| Though we call you through the sunset ye return to us no more | K |
| Have ye found those blessed islands where earth's toils and sorrows cease | L |
| Do ye wear the sacred lotus have ye entered into peace | L |
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| Do ye hear us when we call you do ye heed the tears we shed | G |
| Oh beloved oh immortal oh ye dead who are not dead | G |
| Speak to us across the darkness wave to us a glimmering hand | G |
| Tell us but that ye remember dwellers in the silent land | G |
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| But the sunset clouds have faded arch and capital are gone | M |
| And the regal night is glorious with the starlight overblown | D |
| Life is labor and not dreaming and I have my work to do | G |
| Ere within those happy valleys I shall wear the lilies too | G |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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