Hesperian - Proem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK LMMM NONO PQPQ| The path that winds by wood and stream | A |
| Is not the path for me to day | B |
| The path I take is one of dream | A |
| That leads me down a twilight way | B |
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| By towns where myths have only been | C |
| By streams no mortal foot hath crossed | D |
| To gardens of hesperian sheen | E |
| By halcyon seas for ever lost | D |
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| By forests moonlight haunts alone | F |
| Diana with her silvery fawn | G |
| By fields whereon the stars are sown | F |
| The wildflowers gathered of the Dawn | G |
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| To orchards of eternal fruit | H |
| That never mortal hand shall take | I |
| Around whose central tree and root | H |
| Is coiled the never sleeping Snake | I |
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| The Dragon lost in listening curled | J |
| Around the trunk whose fruit is gold | K |
| The ancient wisdom of the world | J |
| Guarding the glory never old | K |
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| The one desire that leads me now | L |
| Beyond endeavour still to try | M |
| And reach those peaks that overbrow | M |
| The islands of the sunset sky | M |
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| The purple crags the rosy peaks | N |
| Of somewhere nowhere where you will | O |
| But the one place where Beauty speaks | N |
| With the Greek rapture on her still | O |
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| Where still she joins with old Romance | P |
| And Myth and Legend pearl white hands | Q |
| And leads the old immortal dance | P |
| Of Song in dim immortal lands | Q |
Madison Julius Cawein
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