Consecration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADCCAEFGEFF H FFFFFFFFFIJFIJ H FFFFFFFFKLMKLM N FFFFFFFFKCNKCN| This is the place where visions come to dance | A |
| Dreams of the trees and flowers glimmeringly | B |
| Where the white moon and the pale stars can see | C |
| Sitting with Legend and with dim Romance | A |
| This is the place where all the silvery clans | D |
| Of Music meet music of bird and bee | C |
| Music of falling water melody | C |
| Mated with magic with her golden lance | A |
| This is the place made holy by Love's feet | E |
| And dedicate to wonder and to dreams | F |
| The ministers of Beauty 'Twas with these | G |
| Love filled the place making all splendours meet | E |
| And all despairs as once in woods and streams | F |
| Of Ida and the gold Hesperides | F |
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| II | H |
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| Here is the place where Loveliness keeps house | F |
| Between the river and the wooded hills | F |
| Within a valley where the Springtime spills | F |
| Her firstling wind flowers under blossoming boughs | F |
| Where Summer sits braiding her warm white brows | F |
| With bramble roses and where Autumn fills | F |
| Her lap with asters and old Winter frills | F |
| With crimson haw and hip his snowy blouse | F |
| Here you may meet with Beauty Here she sits | F |
| Gazing upon the moon or all the day | I |
| Tuning a wood thrush flute remote unseen | J |
| Or when the storm is out 'tis she who flits | F |
| From rock to rock a form of flying spray | I |
| Shouting beneath the leaves' tumultuous green | J |
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| III | H |
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| The road winds upward under whispering trees | F |
| Through grass and clover where the dewdropp winks | F |
| And at the hill's green crest abruptly sinks | F |
| Into a valley boisterous with bees | F |
| And brooks and birds Its beauty seems to seize | F |
| And take one's breath with rapture joy that drinks | F |
| The soul's cup dry while dreamily it links | F |
| Present and past with mortal memories | F |
| Or so it seems to us who heart to heart | K |
| Come back the old way through the dusk and dew | L |
| With all our old dreams with us blossom deep | M |
| With love old dreams this vale has made a part | K |
| Of its unchanging self the dreams come true | L |
| That consecrate it and still guard and keep | M |
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| IV | N |
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| Keep it O dim recorders of grey years | F |
| And memories of bygone happiness | F |
| This vale among the hills where Love's distress | F |
| And rapture walked beautiful with smiles and tears | F |
| Guard it for Love's sake and for what endears | F |
| Its every tree and flower each fond caress | F |
| Each look of Love with which he once did bless | F |
| The paths he wandered filled with hopes and fears | F |
| Guard it for that sure day when far apart | K |
| Life's ways have led us and with Memory | C |
| One shall sit down here where two sat with Love | N |
| Keep it for that time keep it like my heart | K |
| Haunted for ever by that ecstasy | C |
| And by those words its bowers still whisper of | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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