Music. [a Nocturne.] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF EGH IJKLMNOPQRPSNTUVWXYZ A2B2UCN C2D2 E2F2IQG2H2BI2J2K2N TB2ENL2M2N2K2PN2E2PS K2O2| The soul of love is harmony as such | A |
| All melodies that with wide pinions beat | B |
| Elastic bars which mew it in the flesh | C |
| Till 'twould away to kiss their throats and cling | D |
| Are kindred to the soul and while they sway | E |
| Lords of its action molding all at will | F |
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| Ah neither was I I nor knew the clay | E |
| For all my soul lay on full waves of song | G |
| Reverberating 'twixt the earth and moon | H |
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| O soft complaints that haunted all the heart | I |
| With dreams of love long cherished love dreams found | J |
| On sunset mountains gorgeous toward the West | K |
| Kisses soft kisses bartered 'mid pale buds | L |
| Of bursting Springs and vows of fondest faith | M |
| Kept evermore and eyes whose witchery | N |
| Might lure old saints down to the lowest hell | O |
| For one swift glance sweet melancholy eyes | P |
| Yet full of hope and dimming o'er with tears | Q |
| Stooping and gloating in a silver mist | R |
| At Care's thin brow and growing at his eyes | P |
| Voices of expectation rolling on | S |
| To diapason of a mighty choir | N |
| 'Mid ever swooning throbbings beating low | T |
| Wove in hoarse fabric thunders and O soul | U |
| Wafted to caverns lost by hideous seas | V |
| One with the tumult 'neath o'ercircling tiers | W |
| White with strange diamond spars and feathery gems | X |
| O holy music wailing down long aisles | Y |
| To lose thyself 'neath arched welkins dashed | Z |
| With moons of crystal dying dying down | A2 |
| To passionate sobs and then a silence vast | B2 |
| Vast as thy caves or as the human soul | U |
| Oppressing all this being bulked in flesh | C |
| Until it strained to burst its bounds and soar | N |
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| Harp tones that shaped before the pois d mind | C2 |
| The home of Sleep far on a moonlit isle | D2 |
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| White Sleep who from heaped myriad poppies weighed | E2 |
| With baby slumbers and from violet beds | F2 |
| Culled whiter dreams to fold against her heart | I |
| In dewy clusters sparkling wet with tears | Q |
| And on her shadowy pinions soaring high | G2 |
| Winged 'neath the vault into oblivion | H2 |
| With all the echoes panting at pale feet | B |
| To kiss the dreams and o'er deep wine dark waves | I2 |
| Far far away lost and a sound of stars | J2 |
| Streaming from burning sockets into night | K2 |
| About my soul about my soul like fire | N |
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| Oh then what agony and bitter woe | T |
| Regret and noise of desolation vast | B2 |
| As when all that one loves is torn away | E |
| Forever with farewell forevermore | N |
| Oh strife and panic and the rush of winds | L2 |
| Moist ashen brows with raven tresses torn | M2 |
| That plunged against the bursting bolts of God | N2 |
| That ploughed the tempest curst with deepest night | K2 |
| Ruin and heartache moans and demon eyes | P |
| Fierce bestial eyes that cursed at very God | N2 |
| Then blinding tears that wept for such and prayed | E2 |
| Tears blistering all the soul in haunting eyes | P |
| Eyes such as Death would fear to ponder on | S |
| Then dolorous bell beats battle as for light | K2 |
| Folds of oblivion gaspings silence death | O2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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