Poet Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein

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Portents Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEDEFGGFHIHIJKLJ MNONPQQPRSRSTNUTVWVX

ABOVE the world a glareA
Of sunset guns and spearsB
An army no one hearsC
Of mist and airA
Long lines of bronze and goldD
Huge helmets each a cloudE
And then a fortress oldD
There in the night that phantoms seem to crowdE
A face of flame a handF
Of crimson alchemyG
Is waved and solemnlyG
At its commandF
Opens a fiery wellH
A burning holeI
From which a stream of hellH
A river of blood in frenzy seems to rollI
And there upon a throneJ
Like some vast precipiceK
Above that River of DisL
Behold a King aloneJ
Around whom shapes of bloodM
Take form each one the peerN
Of those who in the woodO
Of Dante's Hell froze up the heart with fearN
Then shapes that breast to breastP
Gallop to face a foeQ
And through the crimson glowQ
Th' imperial crestP
Of him whose banner fliesR
Above a world that burnsS
A raven in the skiesR
And as it flies into a Death's Head turnsS
The wild trees writhe and twistT
Their gaunt limbs wrung with fearN
And now into my earU
A word seems hissedT
A message filled with dreadV
A dark foreboding wordW
'Behold we are the deadV
Who here on Earth lived only by the sword 'X

Madison Julius Cawein



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