The Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBAB CCDDCE FFGGFG HHCCHC IJKKJK CCLLCL CCMMCM JJNNJN

He stands above all worldly schismA
And gazing over life's abysmA
Beholds within the starry rangeB
Of heaven laws of death and changeB
That through his soul's prophetic prismA
Are turned to rainbows wild and strangeB
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Through nature is his hope made surerC
Of that ideal his allurerC
By whom his life is upward drawnD
To mount pale pinnacles of dawnD
'Mid which all that is fairer purerC
Of love and lore it come uponE
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An alkahest that makes gold metalF
Of dross his mind is where one petalF
Of one wild rose will all outweighG
The piled up facts of everydayG
Where commonplaces there that settleF
Are changed to things of heavenly rayG
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He climbs by steps of stars and flowersH
Companioned of the dreaming hoursH
And sets his feet in pastures whereC
No merely mortal feet may fareC
And higher than the stars he towersH
Though lowlier than the flowers thereC
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His comrades are his own high fanciesI
And thoughts in which his soul romancesJ
And every part of heaven or earthK
He visits lo assumes new worthK
And touched with loftier traits and trancesJ
Re shines as with a lovelier birthK
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He is the play likewise the playerC
The word that's said also the sayerC
And in the books of heart and headL
There is no thing he has not readL
Of time and tears he is the weigherC
And mouthpiece 'twixt the quick and deadL
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He dies but mountain ever higherC
Wings Phoenix like from out his pyreC
Above our mortal day and nightM
Clothed on with semipiternal lightM
And raimented in thought's far fireC
Flames on in everlasting flightM
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Unseen yet seen on heights of visionsJ
Above all praise and world derisionsJ
His spirit and his deathless broodN
Of dreams fare on a multitudeN
While on the pillar of great missionsJ
His name and place are granite hewedN

Madison Julius Cawein



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