The Song Of Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIAJKLMNONFPQDRSTU AUUVP FWXYVZWFA2B2VPC2VB2B 2B2 FB2D2E2FF2VB2G2B2UH2 B2B2VI2B2J2B2B2UVFVK 2H2VL2PUG2B2 FM2B2FVN2AFVG2 O2P2APPM2SF B2Q2VFP B2N2P2R2AVAI2FAFH2 S2H2FLFT2YFB2B2U2B2F B2B2VT2F2V2T2 FXFD2VB2B2B2B2FP2U2F VFFVVFVI HEARD a Spirit singing as beyond the morning winging | A |
Its radiant form went swinging like a star | B |
In its song prophetic voices mixed their sounds with trumpet noises | C |
As when loud the World rejoices after war | D |
And it said | E |
I | - |
Hear me | F |
Above the roar of cities | G |
The clamor and conflict of trade | H |
The frenzy and fury of commercialism | I |
Is heard my voice chanting intoning | A |
Down the long corridors of time it comes | J |
Bearing my message bidding the soul of man arise | K |
To the realization of his dream | L |
Now and then discords seem to intrude | M |
And tones that are false and feeble | N |
Beginnings of the perfect chord | O |
From which is evolved the ideal the unattainable | N |
Hear me | F |
Ever and ever | P |
Above the tumult of the years | Q |
The blatant cacophonies of war | D |
The wrangling of politics | R |
Demons and spirits of unrest | S |
My song persists | T |
Addressing the soul | U |
With the urge of an astral something | A |
Supernal | U |
Elemental | U |
Promethean | V |
Instinct with an everlasting fire | P |
II | - |
Hear me | F |
I am the expression of the subconscious | W |
The utterance of the intellect | X |
The voice of mind | Y |
That stands for civilization | V |
Out of my singing sprang Minerva like | Z |
Full armed and fearless | W |
Liberty | F |
Subduer of tyrants who feed on the strength of Nations | A2 |
Out of my chanting arose | B2 |
As Aphrodite arose from the foam of the ocean | V |
The Dream of Spiritual Desire | P |
Mother of Knowledge | C2 |
Victor o'er Hate and Oppression | V |
Ancient and elemental d mons | B2 |
Who with Ignorance and Evil their consorts | B2 |
Have ruled for eons of years | B2 |
III | - |
Hear me | F |
Should my chanting cease | B2 |
My music utterly fail you | D2 |
Behold | E2 |
Out of the hoary Past most swiftly surely | F |
Would gather the Evils of Earth | F2 |
The Hydras and Harpies forgotten | V |
And buried in darkness | B2 |
Amorphous of form | G2 |
Tyrannies and Superstitions | B2 |
Torturing body and soul | U |
And with them | H2 |
Gargoyls of dreams that groaned in the Middle Ages | B2 |
Aspects of darkness and death and hollow eidolons | B2 |
Cruel inhuman | V |
Wearing the faces and forms of all the wrongs of the world | I2 |
Barbarian hordes whose shapes make hideous | B2 |
The cycles of error and crime | J2 |
Grendels of darkness | B2 |
Devouring the manhood of Nations | B2 |
Demogorgons of War and Misrule | U |
Blackening the world with blood and the lust of destruction | V |
Hear me | F |
Out of my song have grown | V |
Beauty and joy | K2 |
And with them | H2 |
The triumph of Reason | V |
The confirmation of Hope | L2 |
Of Faith and Endeavor | P |
The Dream that's immortal | U |
To whose creation Thought gives concrete form | G2 |
And of which Vision makes permanent substance | B2 |
IV | - |
Fragmentary | F |
Out of the Past | M2 |
Down the long aisles of the Centuries | B2 |
Uncertain at first and uneasy | F |
Hesitant harsh of expression | V |
My song was heard | N2 |
Stammering appealing | A |
A murmur merely | F |
Coherent then | V |
Singing into form | G2 |
Assertive | - |
Ecstatic | O2 |
Louder lovelier and more insistent | P2 |
Sonorous proclaiming | A |
Clearer and surer and stronger | P |
Attaining expression evermore truer and clearer | P |
Masterful mighty at last | M2 |
Committed to conquest | S |
And with Beauty coeval | F |
Part of the wonder of life | - |
The triumph of light over darkness | B2 |
Taking the form of Art | Q2 |
Art that is voice and vision of the soul of man | V |
Hear me | F |
Confident ever | P |
One with the Loveliness song shall evolve | - |
My voice is become as an army of banners | B2 |
Marching irresistibly forward | N2 |
With the roll of the drums of attainment | P2 |
The blare of the bugles of fame | R2 |
Tramping tramping evermore advancing | A |
Till the last redoubt of prejudice is down | V |
And the Eagles and Fasces of Learning | A |
Make glorious the van o' the world | I2 |
V | F |
They who are deaf to my singing | A |
Who disregard me | F |
Let them beware lest the splendor escape them | H2 |
The glory of light that is back o' the darkness of life | - |
And with it | S2 |
The blindness of spirit o'erwhelm them | H2 |
They who reject me | F |
Reject the gleam | L |
That goes to the making of Beauty | F |
And put away | T2 |
The loftier impulses of heart and of mind | Y |
They shall not possess the dream the ideal | F |
Of ultimate worlds | B2 |
That is part of the soul that aspires | B2 |
That sits with the Spirit of Thought | U2 |
The radiant presence who weaves | B2 |
Directed of Destiny | F |
There in the Universe | B2 |
At its infinite pattern of stars | B2 |
They shall not know | V |
Not they | T2 |
The exaltations that make endurable here on the Earth | F2 |
The ponderable curtain of flesh | V2 |
Not they Not they | T2 |
VI | - |
Hear me | F |
I control and direct | X |
I wound and heal | F |
Elevate and subdue | D2 |
The vaulting energies of Man | V |
I am part of the cosmic strain o' the Universe | B2 |
I captain the thoughts that grow to deeds | B2 |
Material and spiritual facts | B2 |
Pointing the world to greater and nobler things | B2 |
Hear me | F |
My d dal expression peoples the Past and Present | P2 |
With forms of ethereal thought | U2 |
That symbolize Beauty | F |
The Beauty expressing itself now | V |
As Poetry | F |
As Philosophy | F |
As Truth and Religion now | V |
And now | V |
As science and Law | F |
Vaunt couriers of Civilization | V |
Madison Julius Cawein
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