Poet Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein

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The Cup Of Comus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEFEFFEGEGGHAHA AIEJEEEEEEEKLMLLNNNN NNONOOJJJJJ

PROEMA
THE Nights of song and storyB
With breath of frost and rainC
Whose locks are wild and hoaryB
Whose fingers tap the paneC
With leaves are come againD
The Nights of old OctoberE
That hug the hearth and tellF
To child and grandsire soberE
Tales of what long befellF
Of witch and warlock spellF
Nights that like gnome and faeryE
Go lost in mist and moonG
And speak in legendaryE
Thoughts or a mystic runeG
Much like the owlet's croonG
Or whirling on like witchesH
Amid the brush and broomA
Call from the Earth its richesH
Of leaves and wild perfumeA
And strew them through the gloomA
Till death in all his starknessI
Assumes a form of fearE
And somewhere in the darknessJ
Seems slowly drawing nearE
In raiment torn and sereE
And with him comes NovemberE
Who drips outside the doorE
And wails what men rememberE
Of things believed no moreE
Of superstitious loreE
Old tales of elf and d monK
Of Kobold and of TrollL
And of the goblin womanM
Who robs man of his soulL
To make her own soul wholeL
And all such tales that glamouredN
The child heart once with frightN
That aged lips have stammeredN
For many a child's delightN
Shall speak again to nightN
To night of moonlight mintedN
That is a cup divineO
Whence Death all opal tintedN
Wreathed red with leaf and vineO
Shall drink a magic wineO
A wonder cup of ComusJ
That with enchantment streamsJ
In which the heart of MomusJ
That moon like glooms and gleamsJ
Is drowned with all its dreamsJ

Madison Julius Cawein



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