Chords Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFFGGAAAAH HCC IJJ F BBKBBKGAGGAA LLMNOMNMMNONBBPBBPBQ BQRRNBSN B GMGMMBBBBBBTBTBTTTEB BEUUVWWAVBB GQGQBBBBAAAAXYXMAAMA M B XAZAA A2B2C2B2B2 BD2BD2Then up the orient heights to the zenith that balanced a crescent | A |
Up and far up and over a warm erubescence liquescent | A |
Rioted roses and rubies eruptions of opaline gems | B |
Flung and wide sown blushed crushed and crumbled from diadems | B |
Wealth of the kings of the Sylphs whence old alchemist Earth | C |
Dewed down by chemistry occult fashions petrified waters of worth | C |
Then out of the stain and rash furor the passionate pulver of stone | D |
The trembling suffusion that dazzled and awfully shone | D |
Chamelion convulsion of color hilarious ranges of glare | E |
Like a god who for vengeance ires nodding battle from every hair | E |
Fares forth with majesty girdled and clangs with hot heroes for life | F |
Till the brazen gates boom bursten hells and the walls roar bristling strife | F |
Athwart with a stab of glittering fire in plunged like a knife | F |
Cut billowing gold in bullion rolled and an army driven | G |
Routed the stars fled shriveled and the white moon riven | G |
Puffed like a foam feather forth of a Triton's conch when sounded | A |
Clung vague as a web on heaven then weak as a face that is wounded | A |
Died on the withering clouds and sorrowed with them and mingled | A |
While up and up with a steadiness and triumph of sparkle that tingled | A |
Wrestled the tempest of Dawn that hurricaned heaven with spangle | H |
And halcyon bloom like mercy a shatter a scatter a tangle | H |
Of labyrinthed glory O God with manifold mirth | C |
The hallelujah of Heaven hosanna of Earth | C |
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And I in my vision imprisoned was restless and wan | I |
With a yearning for vigor to gird and be gone | J |
Out of false dreams to the true realities noble of dawn | J |
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VIII | F |
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Vanishing visions whose lineaments steal into slumbers | B |
Loosened the lids of the sight the night that encumbers | B |
Secretly sweetly with fingers of fog that were slow | K |
Slow as a song that mysterious | B |
Passions the soul till delirious | B |
Wrapped in mad melody mastering the uttermost woe | K |
Deep to the innermost deep it is shaken | G |
Ruffled and rippled and tossed | A |
Tantalized terrorized cursed with a thirst that unslaken | G |
Debauches with eyes that burn stolid yet only shall waken | G |
With infinite scorn of the cost | A |
If no note of the rhapsody's lost | A |
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Oh for the music of moonbeams that master and sweep | L |
Chords of the resonant deep | L |
Smiting loud lyres of Night sonorous as fire | M |
Leap fluttering fingers of vanquishing flash and of flake | N |
Fain at each firmament universe instrument star strung | O |
Vibrating vestured in garments of woven desire | M |
Stoop to me breathe on me smile on me waver Awake | N |
From waking to sleeping to silence from manifold clamor | M |
To revelous regions of multiform glamour | M |
Murmur and whisper Awake | N |
Oh necromance banquets by fountains of fairy the spar sprung | O |
Oh sorcerous beauties and wonders of wizards oh take | N |
The millions of morning spun gleams | B |
All glitters of galloping streams | B |
The glimmer the gasp the clutch and the grasp | P |
That colorless crystals and virtuous jewels | B |
As spasmodic fuels | B |
Cuddle and huddle and clasp | P |
The wrinkle and crinkle of scintillant heat in white metals | B |
The quiver of terrible gold and the pearly | Q |
Lithe brilliance of soft holy petals | B |
Of slender sad blossoms tumultuous tossed crispy and curly | Q |
In shadowy reaches of violet dark | R |
The burn of the stars and the spark | R |
Fragile of foams that are fluted to make | N |
One cordial of dreams | B |
To drink and to sink | S |
Deep deep into dreams nor awake | N |
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IX | B |
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As to a Nymph in the ripple ribbed body of ocean | G |
Down down thro' vast stories of water a hiss and devour | M |
Electrify altitudes orbed pulses violent motion | G |
Of Thunder who treads the brute neck of the seas in his power | M |
Till their spine writhes lumped into waves the Nymph in her bower | M |
Rubbing moist sleep from her eyes arises | B |
Loosens the loops of her locks | B |
Loosens and suddenly darts on the storm and surprises | B |
The boisterous bands of the rocks | B |
That hoot to the riddling arrows of rain and of seas | B |
Mountainous these | B |
Swirling and whirling | T |
She of the huge exultation beheld with long tresses | B |
Dotted with bells of the hollow hard foam flung streaming | T |
Dives bounds to the whirlwind embracing then mockingly presses | B |
Hair to wild face and wild throat drifts desolate dreaming | T |
With scorn then laughing and screaming | T |
Discovers full beauty of nakedness leaping and gleaming | T |
And showering the rain from her hair | E |
Pouts blown curdled foam from her lips | B |
And eddying slips | B |
From the ravenous eyes of the Thunder that glare | E |
Away away | U |
To the arms of her lover the Spray | U |
So I | V |
At swift thoughts that were spoken that came | W |
As if winds had fashioned a speech was a flame | W |
That dwindled was kindled then mounted and | A |
Marvelling why | V |
Stemming all thought a gleam out of gleams | B |
Was born into dreams | B |
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Beautiful bosomed O Night with thy moon | G |
Move in majesty slowly to majesty lightly | Q |
Silent as sleep who is lulled by a delicate tune | G |
O'er stroke thou the air with a languor of moonlight brightly | Q |
Thin ice in sockets of turquoise fastened the stars | B |
Gash golden the bosom of heaven with fiery scars | B |
Swoon down O shadowy hosts | B |
O multitude ghosts | B |
Of the moonlight and starlight begotten Then swept | A |
Whispers that sighed to me sorrows that stealthily hovered | A |
Laughters with lips that were mist And murmurings crept | A |
On toward me feet that were glow and faces uncovered | A |
Radiant and crystalline clear | X |
In tortuous sinuous swirl of vapory pearl | Y |
Waned near and more near | X |
Flashed faster a spiral of shapes and of shadows still faster | M |
On in a whirl of unutterable beauties by music expired | A |
That lived and desired | A |
Born births of the brain of a rhapsody reveling master | M |
And mine eyes with their beauties infired | A |
Smiled scorn on dark Death and Disaster | M |
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X | B |
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Ah now the orchard's leaves are sear | X |
Drip not with starlight litten dew | A |
Green drowned no moon bright fruit hangs here | Z |
Dead dead your long white lilies too | A |
And you Allita where are you | A |
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Then comes her dim touch faintly warm | A2 |
Cool hair sense on my feverish cheek | B2 |
Dim eyes at mine deep with some charm | C2 |
So gray so gray and I am weak | B2 |
Weak with wild tears and can not speak | B2 |
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I am as one who walks with dreams | B |
Sees as in youth his father's home | D2 |
Hears from his native mountain streams | B |
Far music of continual foam | D2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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