Reverie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFDE GHGHIJKIJL MNMNOPAOPA QJQORSARSA ATATJUAJUA VAVAIJWIJW

What ogive gates from gold of Ophir wroughtA
What walls of Pariah whiter than a roseB
What towers of crystal for the eyes of thoughtA
Hast builded on far Islands of ReposeB
Thy cloudy columns vast CorinthianC
Or huge Ionic colonnade the heightsD
Of dreamland looming o'er the soul's deep seasE
Built melodies of marble that no manF
Has ever reached except in fancy's flightsD
Templing the presence of perpetual easeE
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Oft where o'er plastic frieze and plinths of sparG
In glimmering solitudes of pillared stoneH
The twilight blossoms with one violet starG
With thee O Reverie I have stood aloneH
And there beheld from out the Mythic AgeI
The rosy breasts of Cytherea fairJ
Full cestused and suggestive of what lovesK
Immortal rise and heard the lyric rageI
Of sun burnt Poesy whose throat breathes bareJ
O'er leopard skins fluting among his grovesL
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Oft where thy castled peaks and templed valesM
Cloud like convulsive sunsets shores that dreamN
Myrrh fragrant over siren seas whose sailsM
Gleam white as lilies on a lilied streamN
My soul has dreamed Or by thy sapphire seaO
In thy arcaded gardens in the shadeP
Of breathing sculpture oft has walked with thoughtA
And bent in shadowy attitude its kneeO
Before the shrine of Beauty that must fadeP
And leave no memory of the mind that wroughtA
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Who hath beheld thy caverns where in heapsQ
The wines of Lethe and Love's witcheryJ
In seal d Amphor a sibyl keepsQ
World old for ever guarded secretlyO
No wine of Xeres or of SyracuseR
No fine Falernian and no vile SabineS
The stolen fire of a demigodA
Whose bubbled purple goddess feet did bruiseR
In crusted vats of vintage where the greenS
Flames with wild poppies on the Samian sodA
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Oh for the deep enchantment of one draughtA
The reckless ecstasy of classic earthT
With godlike eyes to laugh as gods have laughedA
In eyes of mortal brown a mighty mirthT
Of deity delirious with desireJ
To breathe the dropping roses of the shrinesU
The splashing wine libation and the bloodA
And all the young priest's dreaming To inspireJ
My eager soul with beauty 'til it shinesU
An utt'rance of life's loftier brotherhoodA
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So would I slumber in the old world shadesV
And Poesy should touch me as some boldA
Wild bee a pulpy lily of the gladesV
Barbaric covered with the kernelled goldA
And feel the glory of the Golden AgeI
Less godly than my purpose strong to dareJ
Death with the pure immortal lips of loveW
Less lovely than my soul's ideal rageI
To mate itself with Music and declareJ
Itself part meaning of the stars aboveW

Madison Julius Cawein



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