The Cup Of Comus - Proem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DEDEE DFDFF GHGHH IDJDD DDDDD KLMLL NNNNN NONOO JJJJJ| The Nights of song and story | A |
| With breath of frost and rain | B |
| Whose locks are wild and hoary | A |
| Whose fingers tap the pane | B |
| With leaves are come again | C |
| - | |
| The Nights of old October | D |
| That hug the hearth and tell | E |
| To child and grandsire sober | D |
| Tales of what long befell | E |
| Of witch and warlock spell | E |
| - | |
| Nights that like gnome and faery | D |
| Go lost in mist and moon | F |
| And speak in legendary | D |
| Thoughts or a mystic rune | F |
| Much like the owlet's croon | F |
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| Or whirling on like witches | G |
| Amid the brush and broom | H |
| Call from the Earth its riches | G |
| Of leaves and wild perfume | H |
| And strew them through the gloom | H |
| - | |
| Till death in all his starkness | I |
| Assumes a form of fear | D |
| And somewhere in the darkness | J |
| Seems slowly drawing near | D |
| In raiment torn and sere | D |
| - | |
| And with him comes November | D |
| Who drips outside the door | D |
| And wails what men remember | D |
| Of things believed no more | D |
| Of superstitious lore | D |
| - | |
| Old tales of elf and d mon | K |
| Of Kobold and of Troll | L |
| And of the goblin woman | M |
| Who robs man of his soul | L |
| To make her own soul whole | L |
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| And all such tales that glamoured | N |
| The child heart once with fright | N |
| That aged lips have stammered | N |
| For many a child's delight | N |
| Shall speak again to night | N |
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| To night of moonlight minted | N |
| That is a cup divine | O |
| Whence Death all opal tinted | N |
| Wreathed red with leaf and vine | O |
| Shall drink a magic wine | O |
| - | |
| A wonder cup of Comus | J |
| That with enchantment streams | J |
| In which the heart of Momus | J |
| That moon like glooms and gleams | J |
| Is drowned with all its dreams | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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