Dithyrambics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBCDEFEGHFIIJJHJ GJKLLMLMKKNNKOOOPQQR SPQQP T UVUUWWUVXXYYYZA2B2ZB A2BBBBC2VVVC2C2VD2D2 BBE2F2G2F2Wrapped round of the night as a monster is wrapped of the ocean | A |
Down down through vast storeys of darkness behold in the tower | B |
Of the heaven the thunder on stairways of cloudy commotion | A |
Colossal of tread like a giant from echoing hour to hour | B |
Goes striding in rattling armor | B |
The Nymph at her billow roofed dormer | B |
Of foam and the Sylvan green housed at her window of leaves appears | C |
As a listening woman who hears | D |
The approach of her lover who comes to her arms in the night | E |
And loosening the loops of her locks | F |
With eyes full of love and delight | E |
From the couch of her rest in ardor and haste arises | G |
The Nymph as if breathed of the tempest like fire surprises | H |
The riotous bands of the rocks | F |
That face with a roar the shouting charge of the seas | I |
The Sylvan through troops of the trees | I |
Whose clamorous clans with gnarly bosoms keep hurling | J |
Themselves on the guns of the wind goes wheeling and whirling | J |
The Nymph of the waves' exultation upheld her green tresses | H |
Knotted with flowers of the hollow white foam dives screaming | J |
Then bounds to the arms of the storm who boisterously presses | G |
Her hair and wild form to his breast that is panting and streaming | J |
The Sylvan hard pressed by the wind the Pan footed air | K |
On the violent backs of the hills | L |
Like a flame that tosses and thrills | L |
From peak to peak when the world of spirits is out | M |
Is borne as her rapture wills | L |
With glittering gesture and shout | M |
Now here in the darkness now there | K |
From the rain like sweep of her hair | K |
Bewilderingly volleyed o'er eyes and o'er lips | N |
To the lambent swell of her limbs her breasts and her hips | N |
She flashes her beautiful nakedness out in the glare | K |
Of the tempest that bears her away | O |
That bears me away | O |
Away over forest and foam over tree and spray | O |
Far swifter than thought far swifter than sound or than flame | P |
Over ocean and pine | Q |
In arms of tumultuous shadow and shine | Q |
Though Sylvan and Nymph do not | R |
Exist and only what | S |
Of terror and beauty I feel and I name | P |
As parts of the storm the awe and the rapture divine | Q |
That here in the tempest are mine | Q |
The two are the same the two are forever the same | P |
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II | - |
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CALM | T |
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Beauti ful bosomed O night in thy noon | U |
Move with majesty onward bearing as lightly | V |
As a singer may bear the notes of an exquisite tune | U |
The stars and the moon | U |
Through the clerestories high of the heaven the firmament's halls | W |
Under whose sapphirine walls | W |
June hesperian June | U |
Robed in divinity wanders Daily and nightly | V |
The turquoise touch of her robe that the violets star | X |
The silvery fall of her feet that lilies are | X |
Fill the land with languorous light and perfume | Y |
Is it the melody mute of burgeoning leaf and of bloom | Y |
The music of Nature that silently shapes in the gloom | Y |
Immaterial hosts | Z |
Of spirits that have the flowers and leaves in their keep | A2 |
That I hear that I hear | B2 |
Invisible ghosts | Z |
Who whisper in leaves and glimmer in blossoms and hover | B |
In color and fragrance and loveliness breathed from the deep | A2 |
World soul of the mother | B |
Nature who over and over | B |
Both sweetheart and lover | B |
Goes singing her songs from one sweet month to the other | B |
That appear that appear | C2 |
In forest and field on hill land and lea | V |
As crystallized harmony | V |
Materialized melody | V |
An uttered essence peopling far and near | C2 |
The hyaline atmosphere | C2 |
Behold how it sprouts from the grass and blooms from flower and tree | V |
In waves of diaphanous moonlight and mist | D2 |
In fugue upon fugue of gold and of amethyst | D2 |
Around me above me it spirals now slower now faster | B |
Like symphonies born of the thought of a musical master | B |
O music of Earth O God who the music inspired | E2 |
Let me breathe of the life of thy breath | F2 |
And so be fulfilled and attired | G2 |
In resurrection triumphant o'er time and o'er death | F2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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