The Awakening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG CHC IJKL MNMN ONO PQPP PPP RPRP PSPS PNPN ATA| God made that night of pearl and ivory | A |
| Perfect and holy as a holy thought | B |
| Born of perfection dreams and ecstasy | A |
| In love and silence wrought | B |
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| And she who lay where through the casement failing | C |
| The moonlight clasped with arms of vapory gold | D |
| Her Danae beauty seemed to hear a calling | C |
| Deep in the garden old | D |
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| And then it seemed through some strange sense she heard | E |
| The roses softly speaking in the night | F |
| Or was it but the nocturne of a bird | E |
| Haunting the white moonlight | F |
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| It seemed a fragrant whisper vaguely roaming | C |
| From rose to rose a language sweet that blushed | G |
| Saying 'Who comes Who is this swiftly coming | C |
| With face so dim and hushed | G |
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| 'And now and now we hear a wild heart beating | C |
| Whose heart is this that beats among our blooms | H |
| Whose every pulse in rapture keeps repeating | C |
| Wild words like wild perfumes ' | - |
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| And then it ceased and then she heard a sigh | I |
| As if a lily syllabled sweet scent | J |
| Or was it but the wind that silverly | K |
| Touched some stringed instrument | L |
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| And then again a rumor she detected | M |
| Among the roses words of musk and myrrh | N |
| Saying 'He comes the one she hath expected | M |
| Who long hath sought for her | N |
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| The one whose coming made her soul awaken | O |
| Whose face is fragrance and whose feet are fire | N |
| The one by whom her being shall be shaken | O |
| With dreams and deep desire ' | - |
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| And then she rose and to the casement hastened | P |
| And flung it wide and leaning outward gazed | Q |
| Above the night hung moon and starlight chastened | P |
| Below with shadows mazed | P |
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| The garden bloomed Around her and o'erhead | P |
| All seemed at pause save one wild star that streamed | P |
| One rose that fell And then she sighed and said | P |
| 'I must have dreamed have dreamed ' | - |
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| And then again she seemed to hear it speak | R |
| A moth that murmured of a star attained | P |
| Or was it but the fountain whispering weak | R |
| White where the moonbeams rained | P |
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| And still it grew and still the sound insisted | P |
| Louder and sweeter burning into form | S |
| Until at last a presence starlight misted | P |
| It shone there rosy warm | S |
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| Crying 'Come down long have I watched and waited | P |
| Come down draw near or like some splendid flower | N |
| Let down thy hair so I may climb as fated | P |
| Into thy heart's high tower | N |
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| Lower bend lower so thy heart may hear me | A |
| Thy soul may clasp me Beautiful above | T |
| All beautiful things behold me yea draw near me | A |
| Behold for I am Love ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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