Processional Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB ACDD EEFF GGHH IIII JJKK IILL MMMN IIOO PPQQ EERR IISS IILL| Universes are the pages | A |
| Of that book whose words are ages | A |
| Of that book which destiny | B |
| Opens in eternity | B |
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| There each syllable expresses | A |
| Silence there each thought a guess is | C |
| In whose rhetoric's cosmic runes | D |
| Roll the worlds and swarming moons | D |
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| There the systems we call solar | E |
| Equatorial and polar | E |
| Write their lines of rushing light | F |
| On the awful leaves of night | F |
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| There the comets vast and streaming | G |
| Punctuate the heavens' gleaming | G |
| Scroll and suns gigantic shine | H |
| Periods to each starry line | H |
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| There initials huge the Lion | I |
| Looms and measureless Orion | I |
| And as 'neath a chapter done | I |
| Burns the Great Bear's colophon | I |
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| Constellated hieroglyphic | J |
| Numbering each page terrific | J |
| Fiery on the nebular black | K |
| Flames the hurling zodiac | K |
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| In that book o'er which Chaldean | I |
| Wisdom pored and many an eon | I |
| Of philosophy long dead | L |
| This is all that man has read | L |
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| He has read how good and evil | M |
| In creation's wild upheaval | M |
| Warred while God wrought terrible | M |
| At foundations red of Hell | N |
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| He has read of man and woman | I |
| Laws and gods both beast and human | I |
| Thrones of hate and creeds of lust | O |
| Vanished now and turned to dust | O |
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| Arts and manners that have crumbled | P |
| Cities buried empires tumbled | P |
| Time but breathed on them its breath | Q |
| Earth is builded of their death | Q |
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| These but lived their little hour | E |
| Filled with pride and pomp and power | E |
| What availed them all at last | R |
| We shall pass as they have past | R |
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| Still the human heart will dream on | I |
| Love part angel and part demon | I |
| Yet I question what secures | S |
| Our belief that aught endures | S |
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| In that book o'er which Chaldean | I |
| Wisdom pored and many an eon | I |
| Of philosophy long dead | L |
| This is all that man has read | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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