Around The Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCCABDBDDEFBGBGGF HBIBIJHKBLBLLKMBMBMM MEBNBNNEOBPBPPOPBMBM MP| THE weazen planet Mercury | A |
| Whose song is done | B |
| Rash heart that drew too near | C |
| His dazzling lord the Sun | B |
| Forgets that life was dear | C |
| So shriveled now and sere | C |
| The goblin planet Mercury | A |
| But Venus thou mysterious Enveil d one | B |
| Fairest of lights that fleet | D |
| Around the radiant Sun | B |
| Do not thy pulses beat | D |
| To music blithe and sweet | D |
| O Venus veiled mysterious | E |
| And Earth our shadow haunted Earth | F |
| Hast thou too won | B |
| The graces of a star | G |
| From the glory of the Sun | B |
| Do poets dream afar | G |
| That here all lusters are | G |
| Upon our blind bewildered Earth | F |
| We dream that mighty forms on Mars | H |
| With wisdom spun | B |
| From subtler brain than man's | I |
| Are hoarding snow and sun | B |
| Wringing a few more spans | I |
| Of life fierce artisans | J |
| From their deep grooved worn planet Mars | H |
| But thou colossal Jupiter | K |
| World just begun | B |
| Wild globe of golden steam | L |
| Chief nursling of the Sun | B |
| Transcendest human dream | L |
| That faints before the gleam | L |
| Of thy vast splendor Jupiter | K |
| And for what rare delight | M |
| Or woes to shun | B |
| Of races increate | M |
| New lovers of the Sun | B |
| Was Saturn ringed with great | M |
| Rivers illuminate | M |
| Ethereal jewel of delight | M |
| Far from his fellows Uranus | E |
| Doth lonely run | B |
| In his appointed ways | N |
| Around the sovereign Sun | B |
| Wide journeys that amaze | N |
| Our weak and toiling gaze | N |
| Searching the path of Uranus | E |
| But on the awful verge | O |
| Of voids that stun | B |
| The spirit Neptune keeps | P |
| The frontier of the Sun | B |
| Over the deeps on deeps | P |
| He glows a torch that sweeps | P |
| The circle of that shuddering verge | O |
| On each bright planet waits | P |
| Oblivion | B |
| Who casts beneath her feet | M |
| Ashes of star and sun | B |
| But when all ruby heat | M |
| Is frost a Heart shall beat | M |
| Where God within the darkness waits | P |
Katharine Lee Bates
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