Poet Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein

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Demeter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGHI JKLMHNOPQORSTUVWXBYZ AA2MB2C2D2E2 F2G2KH2I2J2K2K2L2MM2 K2N2

Demeter sad the wells of sorrow layA
Eternal gushing in thy lonely pathB
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Methinks I see her now an awful shapeC
Tall o'er a dragon team in frenzied searchD
From Argive plains unto the jeweled shoresE
Of the remotest Ind where Usha's handF
Tinged her grief cloven brow with kindly touchG
And Savitar wheeled genial thro' the skiesH
O'er palmy regions of the faneless BrahmI
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In melancholy search I see her roamJ
O'er the steep peaks of Himalayas keenK
With the unmellowed frosts of Boreal stormsL
Then back again with that wild mother woeM
Writ in the anguished fire of her eyesH
Back where old Atlas groans 'neath weight of worldsN
And the Cimmerian twilight glooms the soulO
Deep was her sleep in Persia's haunted valesP
Where many a languid Philomela moanedQ
The bursting sorrow of a bursting soulO
I see her nigh Ionia's swelling seasR
Cull from the sands a labyrinthine shellS
And hark the mystery of its eery voiceT
Float from the hollow windings of its curlU
Then cast it far into the weedy seaV
To view the salt spray flash like one soft plumeW
Dropped from the wings of Eros 'gainst the flameX
Of Helios' car down sloping toward his bathB
I see her beg a coral flute of redY
From a tailed Triton and on Ithakan rocksZ
High seated at the starry death of dayA
When Selene rose from off her salty couchA2
To smile a glory on her face of sorrowM
Pipe forth sad airs that made the Sirens weepB2
In their green caves beneath the sodden sandsC2
And hoar Poseidon clear his wrinkled frontD2
And still his surgy clamors to a sighE2
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This do I see and more ah yes far moreF2
I see her 'mid the lonely groves of CreteG2
The wild hinds fright from the o'ervaulted greenK
Of thickest boscage tangling their close covertH2
With horror of her torches and her wailI2
Persephone Persephone till the pinesJ2
Of rugged Dicte shuddered thro' their conesK2
And Echo shrieked down in her deepest chasmsK2
A wild reply unto her wild complaintL2
As wild as when she voiced those maidens' woeM
Athenian tribute to stern Minos kingM2
When coiling grim the Minotaur they sawK2
Far in his endless labyrinth of stoneN2

Madison Julius Cawein



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