The Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAB CCDDCE FFGGFG HHCCHC IJKKJK CCLLCL CCMMCM JJNNJNHe stands above all worldly schism | A |
And gazing over life's abysm | A |
Beholds within the starry range | B |
Of heaven laws of death and change | B |
That through his soul's prophetic prism | A |
Are turned to rainbows wild and strange | B |
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Through nature is his hope made surer | C |
Of that ideal his allurer | C |
By whom his life is upward drawn | D |
To mount pale pinnacles of dawn | D |
'Mid which all that is fairer purer | C |
Of love and lore it come upon | E |
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An alkahest that makes gold metal | F |
Of dross his mind is where one petal | F |
Of one wild rose will all outweigh | G |
The piled up facts of everyday | G |
Where commonplaces there that settle | F |
Are changed to things of heavenly ray | G |
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He climbs by steps of stars and flowers | H |
Companioned of the dreaming hours | H |
And sets his feet in pastures where | C |
No merely mortal feet may fare | C |
And higher than the stars he towers | H |
Though lowlier than the flowers there | C |
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His comrades are his own high fancies | I |
And thoughts in which his soul romances | J |
And every part of heaven or earth | K |
He visits lo assumes new worth | K |
And touched with loftier traits and trances | J |
Re shines as with a lovelier birth | K |
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He is the play likewise the player | C |
The word that's said also the sayer | C |
And in the books of heart and head | L |
There is no thing he has not read | L |
Of time and tears he is the weigher | C |
And mouthpiece 'twixt the quick and dead | L |
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He dies but mountain ever higher | C |
Wings Phoenix like from out his pyre | C |
Above our mortal day and night | M |
Clothed on with semipiternal light | M |
And raimented in thought's far fire | C |
Flames on in everlasting flight | M |
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Unseen yet seen on heights of visions | J |
Above all praise and world derisions | J |
His spirit and his deathless brood | N |
Of dreams fare on a multitude | N |
While on the pillar of great missions | J |
His name and place are granite hewed | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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