Death In Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KLML ENON PQRQ SCTC UVWV XYKY ZCSC A2ZEZ B2C2TC2 D2E2YF2 G2LH2H2 I2H2H2H2 J2K2L2K2 TGJ2G CM2GM2 GJ2J2J2 N2H2M2H2 TA2O2A2 P2J2GJ2 YGSG GQ2R2Q2Within my veins it beats | A |
And burns within my brain | B |
For when the year is sad and sear | C |
I dream the dream again | D |
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Ah over young am I | E |
God knows yet in this sleep | F |
More pain and woe than women know | G |
I know and doubly deep | F |
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Seven towers of shaggy rock | H |
Rise red to ragged skies | I |
Built in a marsh that black and harsh | J |
To dead horizons lies | I |
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Eternal sunset pours | K |
Around its warlock towers | L |
A glowing urn where garnets burn | M |
With fire dripping flowers | L |
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O'er bat like turrets high | E |
Stretched in a scarlet line | N |
The crimson cranes through rosy rains | O |
Drop like a ruby wine | N |
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Once in the banquet hall | P |
These scarlet storks are heard | Q |
I sit at board with men o' th' sword | R |
And knights of noble word | Q |
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Cased all in silver mail | S |
But he I love and fear | C |
In glittering gold beside me bold | T |
Sits like a lover near | C |
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Wild music echoes in | U |
The hollow towers there | V |
Behind bright bars o' his visor stars | W |
Beam in his eyes and glare | V |
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Wild music oozes from | X |
Arched ceilings caked with white | Y |
Groined pearl and floors like mythic shores | K |
That sing to seas of light | Y |
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Wild music and a feast | Z |
And one's belov d near | C |
In burning mail why am I pale | S |
So pale with grief and fear | C |
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Red heavens and slaughter red | A2 |
The marsh to west and east | Z |
Seven slits of sky seven casements high | E |
Flare on the blood red feast | Z |
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Our torches tall are these | B2 |
Our revel torches seven | C2 |
That spill from gold soft splendors old | T |
The hour of night eleven | C2 |
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No word The sparkle aches | D2 |
In cups of diamond spar | E2 |
That prism the light of ruddy white | Y |
In royal wines of war | F2 |
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No word Rich plate that rays | G2 |
Splashes of splitting fires | L |
Off beryl brims while sobs and swims | H2 |
Enchantment of lost lyres | H2 |
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I lean to him I love | I2 |
And in the silence say | H2 |
Would thy dear grace reveal thy face | H2 |
If love should crave and pray | H2 |
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Grave Silence like a king | J2 |
At that strange feast is set | K2 |
Grave Silence still as the soul's will | L2 |
That rules the reason yet | K2 |
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But when I speak behold | T |
The charm is snapped for low | G |
Speaks out the mask o' his golden casque | J2 |
At midnight be it so | G |
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And Silence waits severe | C |
Till one sonorous tower | M2 |
Owl swarmed that looms in glaring glooms | G |
Sounds slow the midnight hour | M2 |
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Three strokes the knights arise | G |
The palsy from them flung | J2 |
To meward mock like some hoarse rock | J2 |
When wrecking waves give tongue | J2 |
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Six strokes and wailing out | N2 |
The music hoots away | H2 |
The fiery glimmer of eve dies dimmer | M2 |
The red grows ghostly gray | H2 |
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Nine strokes and dropping mould | T |
The crumbling hall is lead | A2 |
The plate is rust the feast is dust | O2 |
The banqueters are dead | A2 |
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Twelve strokes pound out and roll | P2 |
The huge walls writhe and shake | J2 |
O'er hissing things with taloned wings | G |
Christ Jesus let me wake | J2 |
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Then rattling in the night | Y |
His iron visor slips | G |
In rotting mail a death's head pale | S |
Kisses my loathing lips | G |
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Two hell fierce lusts its eyes | G |
Sharp pointed like a knife | Q2 |
That flaming seem to say No dream | R2 |
No dream the truth of Life | Q2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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