Dionysos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFG HIJKB LMNOPOQRSTUBVWVXQPYZ A2B2ODC2 D2E2F2C2VKE2F2G2C2C2 C2H2 I2J2K2L2B| O Dionysos Dionysos the ivy crowned | A |
| O let me sing thy triumph ere I die | B |
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| Within my sleep a Maenad came to me | C |
| A harp of crimson agate strung with gold | D |
| Wailed 'neath her waxen fingers and her heart | E |
| 'Neath the white gauze thro' which a moonlight shone | F |
| Kept time with its wild throbbings to her song | G |
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| Aegeus sleeps O Dionysos sleeps | H |
| Pale 'neath the tumbling waves that sing his name | I |
| Eternally at my dew glist'ning feet | J |
| And so he died O Dionysos died | K |
| O let me sing thy triumph ere I die | B |
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| With the shrill syrinx and the kissing clang | L |
| Of silver cymbals clashed by Ethiopes swart | M |
| O pard drawn youth thou didst awake the world | N |
| To joy and pleasure with thy sunny wine | O |
| Mad'st India bow and the dun flooding Nile | P |
| Grow purple in the radiance of the wine | O |
| Cast from the richness of Silenus' cup | Q |
| Whiles yet the heavens of heat saw dances wild | R |
| Whirl mid the redness of the Libic sands | S |
| Which greedy drank the Bacchanalian draught | T |
| Spun from the giddy bowl a rose tinged mist | U |
| O'er the slant edge red twinkling in the eye | B |
| Of brazen Ra fierce turning overhead | V |
| What made gold Horus smile with golden lips | W |
| Anubis dire forget his ghosts to lead | V |
| To Hell's profoundness and then stay to sip | X |
| One winking bubble from the wine god's cup | Q |
| What made Osiris 'mid the palms of Nile | P |
| Leave Isis dreaming and the frolic Pan's | Y |
| Harsh trebles follow as a roaring bull | Z |
| Far as the gleaming temples of Indra | A2 |
| And mourned in Memphis by his tawny priests | B2 |
| It was thy joys sun nourished fire of wine | O |
| The brimming purple of the hollow gold | D |
| They tasted and they worshiped gods themselves | C2 |
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| Wan Echo sat once in a spiral shell | D2 |
| She from its sea dyed maziness of pearl | E2 |
| Saw the mixed pageant dancing on the strand | F2 |
| Where Nereus slept upon an isle of crags | C2 |
| And o'er the slope of his far foaming head | V |
| The strangeness of the orgies wildly cried | K |
| Till the frore god shook many a billow curl | E2 |
| Serened his face and stretched a welcome hand | F2 |
| With civil utt'rance for the Bacchus horn | G2 |
| But now there tarries in her eye balls' disks | C2 |
| That nomad troop and naught her tongue may say | C2 |
| Save jostling words that haunt her muffled ears | C2 |
| Like feeble wave beats in a deep sea cave | H2 |
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| Ah the white stars O Dionysos now | I2 |
| Have dropped their glittering blossoms slowly down | J2 |
| Behind the snowy mountains in the West | K2 |
| Aegeus sleeps hushed by my murmuring harp | L2 |
| And I have sung thy triumph let me die | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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