November Meteors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGBGACHC IBJBKBAB ALMLNBHB BABAAAAA AABABOAO IBPBACJC BBABBBBB AQBQKAAA ALBLBHBHOut of the dread eternities | A |
The vast abyss of night | B |
A glorious pageant rose and shone | C |
And passed from human sight | B |
We saw the glittering cavalcade | D |
And heard inwove through all | E |
Faint and afar from star to star | F |
The sliding music fall | E |
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With banners and with torches | A |
And hoofs of glancing flame | G |
With helm and sword and pennon bright | B |
The long procession came | G |
And all the starry spaces | A |
Height above height outshone | C |
And the bickering clang of their armour rang | H |
Down to the farthest zone | C |
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As if some grand cathedral | I |
With towers of malachite | B |
And walls of more than crystal clear | J |
Rose out of the solid light | B |
And under its frowning gateway | K |
Each morioned warrior stept | B |
And in radiant files down the ringing aisles | A |
The martial pageant swept | B |
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From out the oriel windows | A |
From vault and spire and dome | L |
And sparkling up from base to cope | M |
The light and glory clomb | L |
They knelt before the altar | N |
Each mailed and visored knight | B |
And the censers swung as a voice outrung | H |
'Now God defend the right' | B |
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On casque and brand and corselet | B |
Fell the red light of Mars | A |
As forth from the minster gates they passed | B |
To the battle of the stars | A |
Across moon lighted depths of space | A |
And breadths of purple seas | A |
Their flying squadrons sailed in fleets | A |
Of fiery argosies | A |
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Down lengths of shining rivers | A |
Past golded sanded bars | A |
And nebulous isles of amethyst | B |
They dropt like falling stars | A |
Till on a scarped and wrinkled coast | B |
Washed by dark waves below | O |
They came upon the glittering tents | A |
The city of the foe | O |
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Then rushed they to the battle | I |
Their bright hair blazed behind | B |
As deadlier than the bolt they fell | P |
And swifter than the wind | B |
And all the stellar continents | A |
With that fierce hail thick sown | C |
Recoiled with fear from sphere to sphere | J |
To Saturn's ancient throne | C |
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The blind old king in ermine wrapt | B |
And immemorial cold | B |
Awoke and raised his aged hands | A |
And shook his rings of gold | B |
Down toppled plume and pennon bright | B |
In endless ruin hurled | B |
Their blades of light struck fire from night | B |
Their splendours lit the world | B |
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And rolling down the hollow spheres | A |
The mighty chords the seven | Q |
Clanged on from orb to orb and smote | B |
Orion in mid heaven | Q |
Along the ground the white tents lay | K |
And faint along the fields | A |
The foe's swart hosts like glimmering ghosts | A |
Followed his chariot wheels | A |
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With banners and with torches | A |
And armour all aflame | L |
The victors and the vanquished went | B |
Departing as they came | L |
With here and there a rocket sent | B |
Up from some lonely barque | H |
Into the vast abysm they passed | B |
Into the final dark | H |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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