The Spirits Of Light And Darkness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCEFCFC B GHGIGH B JHJHKGKGGGGG B GAGAGGGHLLLH B MNMNGGGG B OOOOOPPPOQQQO B RGRGSTST B UHVVHGGGWXWXX XYXXYXXY ZA2ZZZA2

VOICES SINGINGA
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FIRST CHORUSB
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Ere the birth of Death and of TimeC
Ere the birth of Hell and its tormentsD
Ere the orbs of heat and of rimeC
And the winds to the heavens were as garmentsE
Worm like in the womb of SpaceF
Worm like from her monster wombC
We sprung a myriad raceF
Of thunder and tempest and gloomC
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SECOND CHORUSB
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As from the evil goodG
Springs like a fireH
As bland beatitudeG
Wells from the direI
So was the Chaos broodG
Of us the sireH
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FIRST CHORUSB
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We had lain for gaunt ages asleepJ
'Neath her breast in a bulk of torporH
When down through the vasts of the deepJ
Clove a sound like the notes of a harperH
Clove a sound and the horrors grewK
Tumultuous with turbulent nightG
With whirlwinds of blackness that blewK
And storm that was godly in mightG
And the walls of our prison were shatteredG
Like the crust of a fire wrecked worldG
Like torrents of clouds that are scatteredG
On the face of the Night we are hurledG
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SECOND CHORUSB
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Us in unholy thoughtG
Patiently lyingA
Eons of violence wroughtG
Violence defyingA
When on a mighty windG
Born of a godly mindG
Large with a motive kindG
Girdled with wonderH
Flame and a strength of songL
Rushed in a voice alongL
Burst and lo we were strongL
Strong as the thunderH
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FIRST CHORUSB
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We lurk in the upper spacesM
Where the oceans of tempest are bornN
Where the scowls of our shadowy facesM
Are safe from the splendors of mornN
Our homes are wrecked worlds and each planetG
Whose sun is a light that is spedG
Bleak moons whose cold bodies of graniteG
Are hollow and flameless and deadG
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SECOND CHORUSB
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We in the living sunO
Live like a passionO
Ere all his stars begunO
We and the sun were oneO
As God did fashionO
Lo from our burning handsP
Flung like inspired brandsP
Hurled we the stars like sandsP
Whirled in the oceanO
And all our breath was lifeQ
Life to those worlds and rifeQ
With ever moving strifeQ
Passion for motionO
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FIRST CHORUSB
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Our beds are the tombs of the mortalsR
We feed on their crimes and the thoughtG
That falters and halts at the portalsR
Of actions intentions unwroughtG
We cover the face of to morrowS
We frown in the hours that beT
We breathe in the presence of sorrowS
And death and destruction are weT
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SECOND CHORUSB
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We are the hope and easeU
Joy and the pleasureH
Authors of love and peaceV
Love that shall never ceaseV
Free as the azureH
Birth of our eyes the mightG
Power and strength of lightG
Victor o'er death and nightG
Flesh and its yearningsW
And from our utt'rance streamsX
Beauty with burningsW
After completer dreamsX
Fuller discerningsX
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Morning and birth are oursX
Dew that is blownY
From our light lips like flowersX
Clouds and the beating showersX
Stars that are sownY
Song and the bursting budsX
Life of the many floodsX
Winds that are strownY
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Ye in your darkness areZ
Dark and infernalA2
Subject to death and marZ
But in the spaces farZ
Like our effulgent starZ
We are eternalA2

Madison Julius Cawein



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