Pre-ordination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE AFAF FGFG HIHI HFHF JGJG GFGF FKFK FFFF JAJA DFDF GJGL BIBI IIII IGIG GFGF| She bewitched me in my childhood | A |
| And the witch's charm is hidden | B |
| Far beyond the wicked wildwood | A |
| I shall find it I am bidden | C |
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| She commands me she who bound me | D |
| With soft sorcery to follow | E |
| In a golden snare who wound me | D |
| To her bosom's snowy hollow | E |
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| Comes a night dark stallion sired | A |
| Of the wind a mare his mother | F |
| Whom Thessalian madness fired | A |
| And the hurricane his brother | F |
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| Then my soul delays no longer | F |
| Though the night around is scowling | G |
| Keenly mount him blacker stronger | F |
| Than the tempest that is howling | G |
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| At our ears wild shadows whistle | H |
| Brazen forks the lightning o'er us | I |
| Flames and huge the thunder's missile | H |
| Bursts behind us drags before us | I |
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| Over fire scorched fields of stubble | H |
| Iron forests dark with wonder | F |
| Evil marshes black with trouble | H |
| Nightmare torrents thundering under | F |
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| In the thorn that past us races | J |
| Harelipped hags like crows are rocking | G |
| Stunted oaks have dwarf like faces | J |
| Gnarled that leer an impish mocking | G |
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| Rocks in which the storm is hooting | G |
| Thrust a humpbacked murder over | F |
| Bristling heaths dead thistles shooting | G |
| Raven haunted gibbets cover | F |
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| Each and all are passed like water | F |
| Under rolled into a cavern | K |
| Till we see the Devil's daughter | F |
| Waiting at the Devil's tavern | K |
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| And we stay I drain the beaker | F |
| In her hand the draught is fire | F |
| World remembrances grow weaker | F |
| And my spirit one desire | F |
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| Course it course it Darkness passes | J |
| Like an uprolled banner tattered | A |
| Walled before us mountain masses | J |
| Rise like centuries unscattered | A |
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| And the storm flies ragged Slowly | D |
| Comes a moon of copper color | F |
| And the evil night grows holy | D |
| Mists the wild ride growing duller | F |
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| In the round moon's angry scanning | G |
| Demon swift cross spider arches | J |
| Of the web thick bridges spanning | G |
| Chasms of her kingdom's marches | L |
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| We have reached her kingdom olden | B |
| As the sea that sighs its sadness | I |
| Rocks and trees and sands are golden | B |
| And the air a golden gladness | I |
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| Shapely ingots are the flowers | I |
| And the waters amber brightness | I |
| Gold bright song birds in the bowers | I |
| Sing with eyes of diamond whiteness | I |
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| And she meets me with a chalice | I |
| Like the Giamschid ruby burning | G |
| And I drain it without malice | I |
| To her towers of topaz turning | G |
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| Many hundred years forgetting | G |
| All that's earth within her power | F |
| I possess her naught regretting | G |
| Since each year is as an hour | F |
Madison Julius Cawein
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