Reverie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFDE GHGHIJKIJL MNMNOPAOPA QJQORSARSA ATATJUAJUA VAVAIJWIJWWhat ogive gates from gold of Ophir wrought | A |
What walls of Pariah whiter than a rose | B |
What towers of crystal for the eyes of thought | A |
Hast builded on far Islands of Repose | B |
Thy cloudy columns vast Corinthian | C |
Or huge Ionic colonnade the heights | D |
Of dreamland looming o'er the soul's deep seas | E |
Built melodies of marble that no man | F |
Has ever reached except in fancy's flights | D |
Templing the presence of perpetual ease | E |
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Oft where o'er plastic frieze and plinths of spar | G |
In glimmering solitudes of pillared stone | H |
The twilight blossoms with one violet star | G |
With thee O Reverie I have stood alone | H |
And there beheld from out the Mythic Age | I |
The rosy breasts of Cytherea fair | J |
Full cestused and suggestive of what loves | K |
Immortal rise and heard the lyric rage | I |
Of sun burnt Poesy whose throat breathes bare | J |
O'er leopard skins fluting among his groves | L |
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Oft where thy castled peaks and templed vales | M |
Cloud like convulsive sunsets shores that dream | N |
Myrrh fragrant over siren seas whose sails | M |
Gleam white as lilies on a lilied stream | N |
My soul has dreamed Or by thy sapphire sea | O |
In thy arcaded gardens in the shade | P |
Of breathing sculpture oft has walked with thought | A |
And bent in shadowy attitude its knee | O |
Before the shrine of Beauty that must fade | P |
And leave no memory of the mind that wrought | A |
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Who hath beheld thy caverns where in heaps | Q |
The wines of Lethe and Love's witchery | J |
In seal d Amphor a sibyl keeps | Q |
World old for ever guarded secretly | O |
No wine of Xeres or of Syracuse | R |
No fine Falernian and no vile Sabine | S |
The stolen fire of a demigod | A |
Whose bubbled purple goddess feet did bruise | R |
In crusted vats of vintage where the green | S |
Flames with wild poppies on the Samian sod | A |
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Oh for the deep enchantment of one draught | A |
The reckless ecstasy of classic earth | T |
With godlike eyes to laugh as gods have laughed | A |
In eyes of mortal brown a mighty mirth | T |
Of deity delirious with desire | J |
To breathe the dropping roses of the shrines | U |
The splashing wine libation and the blood | A |
And all the young priest's dreaming To inspire | J |
My eager soul with beauty 'til it shines | U |
An utt'rance of life's loftier brotherhood | A |
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So would I slumber in the old world shades | V |
And Poesy should touch me as some bold | A |
Wild bee a pulpy lily of the glades | V |
Barbaric covered with the kernelled gold | A |
And feel the glory of the Golden Age | I |
Less godly than my purpose strong to dare | J |
Death with the pure immortal lips of love | W |
Less lovely than my soul's ideal rage | I |
To mate itself with Music and declare | J |
Itself part meaning of the stars above | W |
Madison Julius Cawein
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