Disenchantment Of Death. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF GHGHGH IJIJIJ KLKLKL KMKMKM NOPOPO QRSRQR KTKUKT| Hush She is dead Tread gently as the light | A |
| Foots dim the weary room Thou shalt behold | B |
| Look In death's ermine pomp of awful white | A |
| Pale passion of pulseless slumber virgin cold | B |
| Bold beautiful youth proud as heroic Might | A |
| Death and how death hath made it vastly old | B |
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| Old earth she is now energy of birth | C |
| Glad wings hath fledged and tried them suddenly | D |
| The eyes that held have freed their narrow mirth | C |
| Their sparks of spirit which made this to be | D |
| Shine fixed in rarer jewels not of earth | C |
| Far Fairylands beyond some silent sea | D |
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| A sod is this whence what were once those eyes | E |
| Will grow blue wild flowers in what happy air | F |
| Some weed with flossy blossoms will surprise | E |
| Haply what summer with her affluent hair | F |
| Blush roses bask those cheeks and the wise skies | E |
| Will know her dryad to what young oak fair | F |
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| The chastity of death hath touched her so | G |
| No dreams of life can reach her in such rest | H |
| No dreams the mind exhausted here below | G |
| Sleep built within the romance of her breast | H |
| How she will sleep like musick quickening slow | G |
| Dark the dead germs to golden life caressed | H |
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| Low musick thin as winds that lyre the grass | I |
| Smiting thro' red roots harpings and the sound | J |
| Of elfin revels when the wild dews glass | I |
| Globes of concentric beauty on the ground | J |
| For showery clouds o'er tepid nights that pass | I |
| The prayer in harebells and faint foxgloves crowned | J |
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| So if she's dead thou know'st she is not dead | K |
| Disturb her not she lies so lost in sleep | L |
| The too contracted soul its shell hath fled | K |
| Her presence drifts about us and the deep | L |
| Is yet unvoyaged and she smiles o'erhead | K |
| Weep not nor sigh thou wouldst not have her weep | L |
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| To principles of passion and of pride | K |
| To trophied circumstance and specious law | M |
| Stale saws of life with scorn now flung aside | K |
| From Mercy's throne and Justice would'st thou draw | M |
| Her Hope in Hope and Chastity's pale bride | K |
| In holiest love of holy without flaw | M |
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| The anguish of the living merciless | N |
| Mad bitter cruelty unto the grave | O |
| Wrings the dear dead with tenfold heart's distress | P |
| Earth chaining love bound by the lips that rave | O |
| If thou hast sorrow let thy sorrow bless | P |
| That power of death of death our selfless slave | O |
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| Unjust He is not for hast thou not all | Q |
| All that thou ever hadst when this dull clay | R |
| So heartless blasted now flushed spiritual | S |
| A restless vassal of Earth's night and day | R |
| This hath been thine and is the cosmic call | Q |
| Hath disenchanted that which might not stay | R |
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| Thou unjust bar not from its high estate | K |
| Won with what toil thro' devastating cares | T |
| What bootless battling with the violent Fate | K |
| What mailed endeavor with resistless years | U |
| That soul whole hearted granted once thy mate | K |
| Heaven only loaned return it not with tears | T |
Madison Julius Cawein
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