The Song Of Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I HEARD a Spirit singing as beyond the morning wingingA
Its radiant form went swinging like a starB
In its song prophetic voices mixed their sounds with trumpet noisesC
As when loud the World rejoices after warD
And it saidE
I-
Hear meF
Above the roar of citiesG
The clamor and conflict of tradeH
The frenzy and fury of commercialismI
Is heard my voice chanting intoningA
Down the long corridors of time it comesJ
Bearing my message bidding the soul of man ariseK
To the realization of his dreamL
Now and then discords seem to intrudeM
And tones that are false and feebleN
Beginnings of the perfect chordO
From which is evolved the ideal the unattainableN
Hear meF
Ever and everP
Above the tumult of the yearsQ
The blatant cacophonies of warD
The wrangling of politicsR
Demons and spirits of unrestS
My song persistsT
Addressing the soulU
With the urge of an astral somethingA
SupernalU
ElementalU
PrometheanV
Instinct with an everlasting fireP
II-
Hear meF
I am the expression of the subconsciousW
The utterance of the intellectX
The voice of mindY
That stands for civilizationV
Out of my singing sprang Minerva likeZ
Full armed and fearlessW
LibertyF
Subduer of tyrants who feed on the strength of NationsA2
Out of my chanting aroseB2
As Aphrodite arose from the foam of the oceanV
The Dream of Spiritual DesireP
Mother of KnowledgeC2
Victor o'er Hate and OppressionV
Ancient and elemental d monsB2
Who with Ignorance and Evil their consortsB2
Have ruled for eons of yearsB2
III-
Hear meF
Should my chanting ceaseB2
My music utterly fail youD2
BeholdE2
Out of the hoary Past most swiftly surelyF
Would gather the Evils of EarthF2
The Hydras and Harpies forgottenV
And buried in darknessB2
Amorphous of formG2
Tyrannies and SuperstitionsB2
Torturing body and soulU
And with themH2
Gargoyls of dreams that groaned in the Middle AgesB2
Aspects of darkness and death and hollow eidolonsB2
Cruel inhumanV
Wearing the faces and forms of all the wrongs of the worldI2
Barbarian hordes whose shapes make hideousB2
The cycles of error and crimeJ2
Grendels of darknessB2
Devouring the manhood of NationsB2
Demogorgons of War and MisruleU
Blackening the world with blood and the lust of destructionV
Hear meF
Out of my song have grownV
Beauty and joyK2
And with themH2
The triumph of ReasonV
The confirmation of HopeL2
Of Faith and EndeavorP
The Dream that's immortalU
To whose creation Thought gives concrete formG2
And of which Vision makes permanent substanceB2
IV-
FragmentaryF
Out of the PastM2
Down the long aisles of the CenturiesB2
Uncertain at first and uneasyF
Hesitant harsh of expressionV
My song was heardN2
Stammering appealingA
A murmur merelyF
Coherent thenV
Singing into formG2
Assertive-
EcstaticO2
Louder lovelier and more insistentP2
Sonorous proclaimingA
Clearer and surer and strongerP
Attaining expression evermore truer and clearerP
Masterful mighty at lastM2
Committed to conquestS
And with Beauty coevalF
Part of the wonder of life-
The triumph of light over darknessB2
Taking the form of ArtQ2
Art that is voice and vision of the soul of manV
Hear meF
Confident everP
One with the Loveliness song shall evolve-
My voice is become as an army of bannersB2
Marching irresistibly forwardN2
With the roll of the drums of attainmentP2
The blare of the bugles of fameR2
Tramping tramping evermore advancingA
Till the last redoubt of prejudice is downV
And the Eagles and Fasces of LearningA
Make glorious the van o' the worldI2
VF
They who are deaf to my singingA
Who disregard meF
Let them beware lest the splendor escape themH2
The glory of light that is back o' the darkness of life-
And with itS2
The blindness of spirit o'erwhelm themH2
They who reject meF
Reject the gleamL
That goes to the making of BeautyF
And put awayT2
The loftier impulses of heart and of mindY
They shall not possess the dream the idealF
Of ultimate worldsB2
That is part of the soul that aspiresB2
That sits with the Spirit of ThoughtU2
The radiant presence who weavesB2
Directed of DestinyF
There in the UniverseB2
At its infinite pattern of starsB2
They shall not knowV
Not theyT2
The exaltations that make endurable here on the EarthF2
The ponderable curtain of fleshV2
Not they Not theyT2
VI-
Hear meF
I control and directX
I wound and healF
Elevate and subdueD2
The vaulting energies of ManV
I am part of the cosmic strain o' the UniverseB2
I captain the thoughts that grow to deedsB2
Material and spiritual factsB2
Pointing the world to greater and nobler thingsB2
Hear meF
My d dal expression peoples the Past and PresentP2
With forms of ethereal thoughtU2
That symbolize BeautyF
The Beauty expressing itself nowV
As PoetryF
As PhilosophyF
As Truth and Religion nowV
And nowV
As science and LawF
Vaunt couriers of CivilizationV

Madison Julius Cawein



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