Dithyrambics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBCDEFEGHFIIJJHJ GJKLLMLMKKNNKOOOPQQR SPQQP T UVUUWWUVXXYYYZA2B2ZB A2BBBBC2VVVC2C2VD2D2 BBE2F2G2F2

Wrapped round of the night as a monster is wrapped of the oceanA
Down down through vast storeys of darkness behold in the towerB
Of the heaven the thunder on stairways of cloudy commotionA
Colossal of tread like a giant from echoing hour to hourB
Goes striding in rattling armorB
The Nymph at her billow roofed dormerB
Of foam and the Sylvan green housed at her window of leaves appearsC
As a listening woman who hearsD
The approach of her lover who comes to her arms in the nightE
And loosening the loops of her locksF
With eyes full of love and delightE
From the couch of her rest in ardor and haste arisesG
The Nymph as if breathed of the tempest like fire surprisesH
The riotous bands of the rocksF
That face with a roar the shouting charge of the seasI
The Sylvan through troops of the treesI
Whose clamorous clans with gnarly bosoms keep hurlingJ
Themselves on the guns of the wind goes wheeling and whirlingJ
The Nymph of the waves' exultation upheld her green tressesH
Knotted with flowers of the hollow white foam dives screamingJ
Then bounds to the arms of the storm who boisterously pressesG
Her hair and wild form to his breast that is panting and streamingJ
The Sylvan hard pressed by the wind the Pan footed airK
On the violent backs of the hillsL
Like a flame that tosses and thrillsL
From peak to peak when the world of spirits is outM
Is borne as her rapture willsL
With glittering gesture and shoutM
Now here in the darkness now thereK
From the rain like sweep of her hairK
Bewilderingly volleyed o'er eyes and o'er lipsN
To the lambent swell of her limbs her breasts and her hipsN
She flashes her beautiful nakedness out in the glareK
Of the tempest that bears her awayO
That bears me awayO
Away over forest and foam over tree and sprayO
Far swifter than thought far swifter than sound or than flameP
Over ocean and pineQ
In arms of tumultuous shadow and shineQ
Though Sylvan and Nymph do notR
Exist and only whatS
Of terror and beauty I feel and I nameP
As parts of the storm the awe and the rapture divineQ
That here in the tempest are mineQ
The two are the same the two are forever the sameP
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Beauti ful bosomed O night in thy noonU
Move with majesty onward bearing as lightlyV
As a singer may bear the notes of an exquisite tuneU
The stars and the moonU
Through the clerestories high of the heaven the firmament's hallsW
Under whose sapphirine wallsW
June hesperian JuneU
Robed in divinity wanders Daily and nightlyV
The turquoise touch of her robe that the violets starX
The silvery fall of her feet that lilies areX
Fill the land with languorous light and perfumeY
Is it the melody mute of burgeoning leaf and of bloomY
The music of Nature that silently shapes in the gloomY
Immaterial hostsZ
Of spirits that have the flowers and leaves in their keepA2
That I hear that I hearB2
Invisible ghostsZ
Who whisper in leaves and glimmer in blossoms and hoverB
In color and fragrance and loveliness breathed from the deepA2
World soul of the motherB
Nature who over and overB
Both sweetheart and loverB
Goes singing her songs from one sweet month to the otherB
That appear that appearC2
In forest and field on hill land and leaV
As crystallized harmonyV
Materialized melodyV
An uttered essence peopling far and nearC2
The hyaline atmosphereC2
Behold how it sprouts from the grass and blooms from flower and treeV
In waves of diaphanous moonlight and mistD2
In fugue upon fugue of gold and of amethystD2
Around me above me it spirals now slower now fasterB
Like symphonies born of the thought of a musical masterB
O music of Earth O God who the music inspiredE2
Let me breathe of the life of thy breathF2
And so be fulfilled and attiredG2
In resurrection triumphant o'er time and o'er deathF2

Madison Julius Cawein



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