November Meteors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGBGACHC IBJBKBAB ALMLNBHB BABAAAAA AABABOAO IBPBACJC BBABBBBB AQBQKAAA ALBLBHBH

Out of the dread eternitiesA
The vast abyss of nightB
A glorious pageant rose and shoneC
And passed from human sightB
We saw the glittering cavalcadeD
And heard inwove through allE
Faint and afar from star to starF
The sliding music fallE
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With banners and with torchesA
And hoofs of glancing flameG
With helm and sword and pennon brightB
The long procession cameG
And all the starry spacesA
Height above height outshoneC
And the bickering clang of their armour rangH
Down to the farthest zoneC
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As if some grand cathedralI
With towers of malachiteB
And walls of more than crystal clearJ
Rose out of the solid lightB
And under its frowning gatewayK
Each morioned warrior steptB
And in radiant files down the ringing aislesA
The martial pageant sweptB
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From out the oriel windowsA
From vault and spire and domeL
And sparkling up from base to copeM
The light and glory clombL
They knelt before the altarN
Each mailed and visored knightB
And the censers swung as a voice outrungH
'Now God defend the right'B
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On casque and brand and corseletB
Fell the red light of MarsA
As forth from the minster gates they passedB
To the battle of the starsA
Across moon lighted depths of spaceA
And breadths of purple seasA
Their flying squadrons sailed in fleetsA
Of fiery argosiesA
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Down lengths of shining riversA
Past golded sanded barsA
And nebulous isles of amethystB
They dropt like falling starsA
Till on a scarped and wrinkled coastB
Washed by dark waves belowO
They came upon the glittering tentsA
The city of the foeO
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Then rushed they to the battleI
Their bright hair blazed behindB
As deadlier than the bolt they fellP
And swifter than the windB
And all the stellar continentsA
With that fierce hail thick sownC
Recoiled with fear from sphere to sphereJ
To Saturn's ancient throneC
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The blind old king in ermine wraptB
And immemorial coldB
Awoke and raised his aged handsA
And shook his rings of goldB
Down toppled plume and pennon brightB
In endless ruin hurledB
Their blades of light struck fire from nightB
Their splendours lit the worldB
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And rolling down the hollow spheresA
The mighty chords the sevenQ
Clanged on from orb to orb and smoteB
Orion in mid heavenQ
Along the ground the white tents layK
And faint along the fieldsA
The foe's swart hosts like glimmering ghostsA
Followed his chariot wheelsA
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With banners and with torchesA
And armour all aflameL
The victors and the vanquished wentB
Departing as they cameL
With here and there a rocket sentB
Up from some lonely barqueH
Into the vast abysm they passedB
Into the final darkH

Kate Seymour Maclean



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