Jotunheim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCCCCDCDCCC EFEFGGCCCGCGCCCC HIJKLLMMCCC LLLNLNLOOONBBLLPP LLHHHQQHRRCCSS O CCTTUABBBBVVWWCSSCSS XXBPBPBeyond the Northern Lights in regions haunted | A |
Of twilight where the world is glacier planted | A |
And pale as Loki in his cavern when | B |
The serpent's slaver burns him to the bones | C |
I saw the phantasms of gigantic men | B |
The prototypes of vastness quarrying stones | C |
Great blocks of winter glittering with the morn's | C |
And evening's colors wild prismatic tones | C |
Of boreal beauty Like the three gray Norns | C |
Silence and solitude and terror loomed | D |
Around them where they labored Walls arose | C |
Vast as the Andes when creation boomed | D |
Insurgent fire and through the rushing snows | C |
Enormous battlements of tremendous ice | C |
Bastioned and turreted I saw arise | C |
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But who can sing the workmanship gigantic | E |
That reared within its coruscating dome | F |
The roaring fountain hurling an Atlantic | E |
Of streaming ice that flashed with flame and foam | F |
An opal spirit various and many formed | G |
In whose clear heart reverberant fire stormed | G |
Seemed its inhabitant and through pale halls | C |
And deep diaphanous walls | C |
And corridors of whiteness | C |
Auroral colors swarmed | G |
As rosy flickering stains | C |
Or lambent green or gold or crimson warmed | G |
The pulsing crystal of the spirit's veins | C |
With ever changing brightness | C |
And through the Arctic night there went a voice | C |
As if the ancient Earth cried out 'Rejoice | C |
My heart is full of lightness ' | - |
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III | - |
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Here well might Thor the god of war | H |
Harness the whirlwinds to his car | I |
While mailed in storm his iron arm | J |
Heaves high his hammer's lava form | K |
And red and black his beard streams back | L |
Like some fierce torrent scoriac | L |
Whose earthquake light glares through the night | M |
Around some dark volcanic height | M |
And through the skies Valkyrian cries | C |
Trumpet as battleward he flies | C |
Death in his hair and havoc in his eyes | C |
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Still in my dreams I hear that fountain flowing | L |
Beyond all seeing and beyond all knowing | L |
Still in my dreams I see those wild walls glowing | L |
With hues Aurora kissed | N |
And through huge halls fantastic phantoms going | L |
Vast shapes of snow and mist | N |
Sonorous clarions of the tempest blowing | L |
That trail dark banners by | O |
Cloudlike underneath the sky | O |
Of the caverned dome on high | O |
Carbuncle and amethyst | N |
Still I hear the ululation | B |
Of their stormy exultation | B |
Multitudinous and blending | L |
In hoarse echoes far unending | L |
And through halls of fog and frost | P |
Howling back like madness lost | P |
In the moonless mansion of | - |
Its own demon haunted love | - |
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Still in my dreams I hear the mermaid singing | L |
The mermaid music at its portal ringing | L |
The mermaid song that hinged with gold its door | H |
And whispering evermore | H |
Hushed the ponderous hurl and roar | H |
And vast olian thunder | Q |
Of the chained tempests under | Q |
The frozen cataracts that were its floor | H |
And blinding beautiful I still behold | R |
The mermaid there combing her locks of gold | R |
While at her feet green as the Northern Seas | C |
Gambol her flocks of seals and walruses | C |
While like a drift her dog a Polar bear | S |
Lies by her glowering through his shaggy hair | S |
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VI | O |
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O wondrous house built by supernal hands | C |
In vague and ultimate lands | C |
Thy architects were behemoth wind and cloud | T |
That laboring loud | T |
Mountained thy world foundations and uplifted | U |
Thy skyey bastions drifted | A |
Of piled eternities of ice and snow | B |
Where storms like ploughmen go | B |
Ploughing the deeps with awful hurricane | B |
Where spouting icy rain | B |
The huge whale wallows and through furious hail | V |
Th' explorer's tattered sail | V |
Drives like the wing of some terrific bird | W |
Where wreck and famine herd | W |
Home of the red Auroras and the gods | C |
He who profanes thy perilous threshold where | S |
The ancient centuries lair | S |
And glacier throned thy monarch Winter nods | C |
Let him beware | S |
Lest coming on that hoary presence there | S |
Whose pitiless hand | X |
Above that hungry land | X |
An iceberg wields as sceptre and whose crown | B |
The North Star is set in a band of frost | P |
He too shall feel the bitterness of that frown | B |
And turned to stone forevermore be lost | P |
Madison Julius Cawein
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