The Long Room Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKK LLLLMMLLNN| HE found the long room as it was of old | A |
| Glimmering with sunset's gold | A |
| That made the tapestries seem full of eyes | B |
| Strange with a wild surmise | B |
| Glaring upon a Psyche where she shone | C |
| Carven of stainless stone | C |
| Holding a crystal heart where many a sun | D |
| Seemed starrily bound in one | D |
| And near her grim in rigid metal stood | E |
| An old knight in a wood | E |
| Groping his way the bony wreck that was | F |
| His steed at weary pause | G |
| And over these a canvas one mad mesh | H |
| Of Chrysoprase tints of flesh | H |
| And breasts Bohemian cups whose glory gleamed | I |
| For one who brutish seemed | I |
| A hideous Troll unto whose lustful arms | J |
| She yielded glad her charms | J |
| Then he remembered all her shame and knew | K |
| The thing that he must do | K |
| These were but records of his life the whole | L |
| Portrayed to him his soul | L |
| So drawing forth the slim Bithynian phial | L |
| He drained it with a smile | L |
| And 'twixt the Knight and Psyche fell and died | M |
| The arras evil eyed | M |
| Glared grimly at him where all night he lay | L |
| And where a stealthy ray | L |
| Pointed her to him her that nymph above | N |
| Who gave the Troll her love | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Long Room poem by Madison Julius Cawein
Best Poems of Madison Julius Cawein