In Mythic Seas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCCCCEECCFFGG CCHHCCCCIICCJJKKCCCC LLMMNNCCCCOOCCCCPQCC GG RRSSTTAAUULLSS

'Neath saffron stars and satin skies dark blueA
Between dim sylvan isles a happy twoA
We sailed and from the siren haunted shoreB
All mystic in its mist the soft gale boreB
The Siren's song while on the ghostly steepsC
Strange foliage grew deeps folding upon deepsC
That hung and beamed with blossom and with budD
Thick powdered pallid or like urns of bloodD
Dripping and blowing from wide mouths of bloomsC
On our bare brows cool gales of sweet perfumesC
While from the yellow stars that splashed the skiesC
O'er our light shallop dropped soft mysteriesC
Of calm and sleep until the yellower moonE
Rose full of fire above a dark lagoonE
And as she rose the nightingales on spraysC
Of heavy shadowy roses burst in praiseC
Of her wild loveliness with boisterous painF
Wailing far off around a ruined faneF
And 'round our lazy keel that dipped to swingG
The spirits of the foam came whisperingG
And from dank Neptune's coral columned cavesC
Heard the Oceanids rise thro' the wavesC
Saw their smooth limbs cold glimmering in the sprayH
Tumultuous bosoms panting with their playH
Their oozy tresses tossed unto the breezeC
Flash sea green brightness o'er the tumbled seasC
'Mid columned isles glance vaguely thro' the treesC
We watched the Satyrs chase the DryadesC
Heard Pan's fierce trebles and the Triton's hornI
Sound from the rock lashed foam when rose the MornI
With chilly fingers dewing all the skiesC
That blushed for love and closed their starry eyesC
The Naiad saw sweet smiling in white mistJ
Half hidden in a bay of amethystJ
Her polished limbs and at her hollow earK
A shell's pink labyrinth held up to hearK
Dim echoes of the Siren's haunting strainsC
Emprisoned in its chords of crimson veinsC
And stealing wily from a grove of pinesC
The Oread in cincture of green vinesC
One twinkling foot half buried in the redL
Of a deep dimpled crumpled poppy bedL
Like to the star of eve when lapsing lowM
Faint clouds that with the sunset colors glowM
Slip down in scarlet o'er its crystal whiteN
It shining tear like partly veils its lightN
Her wine red lips half parted in surpriseC
And expectation in her bright blue eyesC
While slyly from a young oak coppice peersC
The wanton Faun with furry pointed earsC
He leaps she flies as flies the startled nymphO
When Pan pursues her from her wonted lymphO
Diana sees and on her wooded hillsC
Stays her fair band the stag hounds' clamor stillsC
Already nearer glow the Oread's charmsC
To seize them Faunus strains his hairy armsC
A senseless statue of white weeping stoneP
Fills his embrace the Oread is goneQ
The stag hounds bay Dian resumes the chaseC
While the astonished Faun's bewildered faceC
Paints all his wonderment and wonderingG
He bends above the sculpture of the springG
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We sailed and many a morn of breathing balmR
Purpureal graced us in that season calmR
And it was life to thee and me and loveS
With the fair myths below our God aboveS
To sail in golden sunsets and emergeT
In golden morns upon a fretless surgeT
But ah alas the stars that dot the blueA
Shine not alway the clouds must gather tooA
I knew not how it came but in a whileU
Myself I found cast on an arid isleU
Alone and barkless soaked and wan with dreadL
The seas in wrath and thunder overheadL
Deep down in coral caverns my pale loveS
No myths below no God it seemed aboveS

Madison Julius Cawein



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