Resurgam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAAAABBAAAABCCAADCEA AAACEAAAFFGEA CCAAAA HEHIHIE JCJC AACCCC

Into the darkness and the deepsA
My thoughts have strayed where silence dwellsA
Where the old world encrypted sleepsA
Myriads of forms in myriad cellsA
Of dead and inorganic thingsA
That neither live nor move nor growB
Nor any change of atoms knowB
That have neither legs nor arms nor wingsA
That have neither heads nor mouths nor stingsA
That have neither roots nor leaves nor stemsA
To hold up flowers like diademsA
Growing out of the ground belowB
But which hold insteadC
The cycles deadC
And out of their stony and gloomy foldsA
Shape out new mouldsA
For a new race begunD
Shutting within dark pages furledC
As in a vast herbariumE
The flowers and balmsA
The pines and palmsA
The ferns and conesA
All turned to stonesA
Of all the unknown elder worldC
As in a wonderful museumE
Ranged in its myriad mummy shelvesA
Insects and wormsA
All lower formsA
Of fin and scaleF
Of gnat and whaleF
Fish bird and the monstrous mastodonG
The fabulous megatheriumE
And men themselvesA
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Ah what life is here compressedC
Frozen into endless restC
Down through springing blades and spiresA
Down through mines and crypts and cavesA
Still graves on graves and graves on gravesA
Down to earth's most central firesA
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The morning stars sang at their birthH
In the first beginnings of timeE
What voice of dolour or of mirthH
At their last funeral made moanI
Ashes to ashes earth to earthH
And stone to stoneI
Chanting the liturgy sublimeE
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What matter in that doom's day bookJ
Their place is fixed their names are writC
Each in its individual nookJ
God's eye beholds remembers itC
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When the slow moving centuriesA
Have lapsed in the former eternitiesA
When the day is come which we see not yetC
When the sea gives up its deadC
And the thrones are setC
These books shall be opened and readC

Kate Seymour Maclean



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