In Mythic Seas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCCCCEECCFFGG CCHHCCCCIICCJJKKCCCC LLMMNNCCCCOOCCCCPQCC GG RRSSTTAAUULLSS'Neath saffron stars and satin skies dark blue | A |
Between dim sylvan isles a happy two | A |
We sailed and from the siren haunted shore | B |
All mystic in its mist the soft gale bore | B |
The Siren's song while on the ghostly steeps | C |
Strange foliage grew deeps folding upon deeps | C |
That hung and beamed with blossom and with bud | D |
Thick powdered pallid or like urns of blood | D |
Dripping and blowing from wide mouths of blooms | C |
On our bare brows cool gales of sweet perfumes | C |
While from the yellow stars that splashed the skies | C |
O'er our light shallop dropped soft mysteries | C |
Of calm and sleep until the yellower moon | E |
Rose full of fire above a dark lagoon | E |
And as she rose the nightingales on sprays | C |
Of heavy shadowy roses burst in praise | C |
Of her wild loveliness with boisterous pain | F |
Wailing far off around a ruined fane | F |
And 'round our lazy keel that dipped to swing | G |
The spirits of the foam came whispering | G |
And from dank Neptune's coral columned caves | C |
Heard the Oceanids rise thro' the waves | C |
Saw their smooth limbs cold glimmering in the spray | H |
Tumultuous bosoms panting with their play | H |
Their oozy tresses tossed unto the breeze | C |
Flash sea green brightness o'er the tumbled seas | C |
'Mid columned isles glance vaguely thro' the trees | C |
We watched the Satyrs chase the Dryades | C |
Heard Pan's fierce trebles and the Triton's horn | I |
Sound from the rock lashed foam when rose the Morn | I |
With chilly fingers dewing all the skies | C |
That blushed for love and closed their starry eyes | C |
The Naiad saw sweet smiling in white mist | J |
Half hidden in a bay of amethyst | J |
Her polished limbs and at her hollow ear | K |
A shell's pink labyrinth held up to hear | K |
Dim echoes of the Siren's haunting strains | C |
Emprisoned in its chords of crimson veins | C |
And stealing wily from a grove of pines | C |
The Oread in cincture of green vines | C |
One twinkling foot half buried in the red | L |
Of a deep dimpled crumpled poppy bed | L |
Like to the star of eve when lapsing low | M |
Faint clouds that with the sunset colors glow | M |
Slip down in scarlet o'er its crystal white | N |
It shining tear like partly veils its light | N |
Her wine red lips half parted in surprise | C |
And expectation in her bright blue eyes | C |
While slyly from a young oak coppice peers | C |
The wanton Faun with furry pointed ears | C |
He leaps she flies as flies the startled nymph | O |
When Pan pursues her from her wonted lymph | O |
Diana sees and on her wooded hills | C |
Stays her fair band the stag hounds' clamor stills | C |
Already nearer glow the Oread's charms | C |
To seize them Faunus strains his hairy arms | C |
A senseless statue of white weeping stone | P |
Fills his embrace the Oread is gone | Q |
The stag hounds bay Dian resumes the chase | C |
While the astonished Faun's bewildered face | C |
Paints all his wonderment and wondering | G |
He bends above the sculpture of the spring | G |
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We sailed and many a morn of breathing balm | R |
Purpureal graced us in that season calm | R |
And it was life to thee and me and love | S |
With the fair myths below our God above | S |
To sail in golden sunsets and emerge | T |
In golden morns upon a fretless surge | T |
But ah alas the stars that dot the blue | A |
Shine not alway the clouds must gather too | A |
I knew not how it came but in a while | U |
Myself I found cast on an arid isle | U |
Alone and barkless soaked and wan with dread | L |
The seas in wrath and thunder overhead | L |
Deep down in coral caverns my pale love | S |
No myths below no God it seemed above | S |
Madison Julius Cawein
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