Jotunheim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Beyond the Northern Lights in regions hauntedA
Of twilight where the world is glacier plantedA
And pale as Loki in his cavern whenB
The serpent's slaver burns him to the bonesC
I saw the phantasms of gigantic menB
The prototypes of vastness quarrying stonesC
Great blocks of winter glittering with the morn'sC
And evening's colors wild prismatic tonesC
Of boreal beauty Like the three gray NornsC
Silence and solitude and terror loomedD
Around them where they labored Walls aroseC
Vast as the Andes when creation boomedD
Insurgent fire and through the rushing snowsC
Enormous battlements of tremendous iceC
Bastioned and turreted I saw ariseC
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But who can sing the workmanship giganticE
That reared within its coruscating domeF
The roaring fountain hurling an AtlanticE
Of streaming ice that flashed with flame and foamF
An opal spirit various and many formedG
In whose clear heart reverberant fire stormedG
Seemed its inhabitant and through pale hallsC
And deep diaphanous wallsC
And corridors of whitenessC
Auroral colors swarmedG
As rosy flickering stainsC
Or lambent green or gold or crimson warmedG
The pulsing crystal of the spirit's veinsC
With ever changing brightnessC
And through the Arctic night there went a voiceC
As if the ancient Earth cried out 'RejoiceC
My heart is full of lightness '-
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Here well might Thor the god of warH
Harness the whirlwinds to his carI
While mailed in storm his iron armJ
Heaves high his hammer's lava formK
And red and black his beard streams backL
Like some fierce torrent scoriacL
Whose earthquake light glares through the nightM
Around some dark volcanic heightM
And through the skies Valkyrian criesC
Trumpet as battleward he fliesC
Death in his hair and havoc in his eyesC
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Still in my dreams I hear that fountain flowingL
Beyond all seeing and beyond all knowingL
Still in my dreams I see those wild walls glowingL
With hues Aurora kissedN
And through huge halls fantastic phantoms goingL
Vast shapes of snow and mistN
Sonorous clarions of the tempest blowingL
That trail dark banners byO
Cloudlike underneath the skyO
Of the caverned dome on highO
Carbuncle and amethystN
Still I hear the ululationB
Of their stormy exultationB
Multitudinous and blendingL
In hoarse echoes far unendingL
And through halls of fog and frostP
Howling back like madness lostP
In the moonless mansion of-
Its own demon haunted love-
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Still in my dreams I hear the mermaid singingL
The mermaid music at its portal ringingL
The mermaid song that hinged with gold its doorH
And whispering evermoreH
Hushed the ponderous hurl and roarH
And vast olian thunderQ
Of the chained tempests underQ
The frozen cataracts that were its floorH
And blinding beautiful I still beholdR
The mermaid there combing her locks of goldR
While at her feet green as the Northern SeasC
Gambol her flocks of seals and walrusesC
While like a drift her dog a Polar bearS
Lies by her glowering through his shaggy hairS
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O wondrous house built by supernal handsC
In vague and ultimate landsC
Thy architects were behemoth wind and cloudT
That laboring loudT
Mountained thy world foundations and upliftedU
Thy skyey bastions driftedA
Of piled eternities of ice and snowB
Where storms like ploughmen goB
Ploughing the deeps with awful hurricaneB
Where spouting icy rainB
The huge whale wallows and through furious hailV
Th' explorer's tattered sailV
Drives like the wing of some terrific birdW
Where wreck and famine herdW
Home of the red Auroras and the godsC
He who profanes thy perilous threshold whereS
The ancient centuries lairS
And glacier throned thy monarch Winter nodsC
Let him bewareS
Lest coming on that hoary presence thereS
Whose pitiless handX
Above that hungry landX
An iceberg wields as sceptre and whose crownB
The North Star is set in a band of frostP
He too shall feel the bitterness of that frownB
And turned to stone forevermore be lostP

Madison Julius Cawein



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