The Purple Valleys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACCD CCCEFFC CGHFDIJ FCFKCAL DCACFEL| Far in the purple valleys of illusion | A |
| I see her waiting like the soul of music | B |
| With deep eyes lovelier than cerulean pansies | C |
| Shadow and fire yet merciless as poison | A |
| With red lips sweeter than Arabian storax | C |
| Yet bitterer than myrrh O tears and kisses | C |
| O eyes and lips that haunt my soul forever | D |
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| Again Spring walks transcendent on the mountains | C |
| The woods are hushed the vales are blue with shadows | C |
| Above the heights steeped in a thousand splendors | C |
| Like some vast canvas of the gods hangs burning | E |
| The sunset's wild sciography and slowly | F |
| The moon treads heaven's proscenium night's stately | F |
| White queen of love and tragedy and madness | C |
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| Again I know forgotten dreams and longings | C |
| Ideals lost desires dead and buried | G |
| Beside the altar sacrifice erected | H |
| Within the heart's high sanctuary Strangely | F |
| Again I know the horror and the rapture | D |
| The utterless awe the joy akin to anguish | I |
| The terror and the worship of the spirit | J |
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| Again I feel her eyes pierce through and through me | F |
| Her deep eyes lovelier than imperial pansies | C |
| Velvet and flame through which her fierce will holds me | F |
| Powerless and tame and draws me on and onward | K |
| To sad unsatisfied and animal yearnings | C |
| Wild unrestrained the brute within the human | A |
| To fling me panting on her mouth and bosom | L |
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| Again I feel her lips like ice and fire | D |
| Her red lips odorous as Arabian storax | C |
| Fragrance and fire within whose kiss destruction | A |
| Lies serpent like Intoxicating languors | C |
| Resistlessly embrace me soul and body | F |
| And we go drifting drifting she is laughing | E |
| Outcasts of God into the deep's abysm | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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