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 ZA2ZZZA2VOICES SINGING | A |
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FIRST CHORUS | B |
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Ere the birth of Death and of Time | C |
Ere the birth of Hell and its torments | D |
Ere the orbs of heat and of rime | C |
And the winds to the heavens were as garments | E |
Worm like in the womb of Space | F |
Worm like from her monster womb | C |
We sprung a myriad race | F |
Of thunder and tempest and gloom | C |
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SECOND CHORUS | B |
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As from the evil good | G |
Springs like a fire | H |
As bland beatitude | G |
Wells from the dire | I |
So was the Chaos brood | G |
Of us the sire | H |
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FIRST CHORUS | B |
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We had lain for gaunt ages asleep | J |
'Neath her breast in a bulk of torpor | H |
When down through the vasts of the deep | J |
Clove a sound like the notes of a harper | H |
Clove a sound and the horrors grew | K |
Tumultuous with turbulent night | G |
With whirlwinds of blackness that blew | K |
And storm that was godly in might | G |
And the walls of our prison were shattered | G |
Like the crust of a fire wrecked world | G |
Like torrents of clouds that are scattered | G |
On the face of the Night we are hurled | G |
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SECOND CHORUS | B |
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Us in unholy thought | G |
Patiently lying | A |
Eons of violence wrought | G |
Violence defying | A |
When on a mighty wind | G |
Born of a godly mind | G |
Large with a motive kind | G |
Girdled with wonder | H |
Flame and a strength of song | L |
Rushed in a voice along | L |
Burst and lo we were strong | L |
Strong as the thunder | H |
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FIRST CHORUS | B |
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We lurk in the upper spaces | M |
Where the oceans of tempest are born | N |
Where the scowls of our shadowy faces | M |
Are safe from the splendors of morn | N |
Our homes are wrecked worlds and each planet | G |
Whose sun is a light that is sped | G |
Bleak moons whose cold bodies of granite | G |
Are hollow and flameless and dead | G |
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SECOND CHORUS | B |
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We in the living sun | O |
Live like a passion | O |
Ere all his stars begun | O |
We and the sun were one | O |
As God did fashion | O |
Lo from our burning hands | P |
Flung like inspired brands | P |
Hurled we the stars like sands | P |
Whirled in the ocean | O |
And all our breath was life | Q |
Life to those worlds and rife | Q |
With ever moving strife | Q |
Passion for motion | O |
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FIRST CHORUS | B |
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Our beds are the tombs of the mortals | R |
We feed on their crimes and the thought | G |
That falters and halts at the portals | R |
Of actions intentions unwrought | G |
We cover the face of to morrow | S |
We frown in the hours that be | T |
We breathe in the presence of sorrow | S |
And death and destruction are we | T |
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SECOND CHORUS | B |
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We are the hope and ease | U |
Joy and the pleasure | H |
Authors of love and peace | V |
Love that shall never cease | V |
Free as the azure | H |
Birth of our eyes the might | G |
Power and strength of light | G |
Victor o'er death and night | G |
Flesh and its yearnings | W |
And from our utt'rance streams | X |
Beauty with burnings | W |
After completer dreams | X |
Fuller discernings | X |
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Morning and birth are ours | X |
Dew that is blown | Y |
From our light lips like flowers | X |
Clouds and the beating showers | X |
Stars that are sown | Y |
Song and the bursting buds | X |
Life of the many floods | X |
Winds that are strown | Y |
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Ye in your darkness are | Z |
Dark and infernal | A2 |
Subject to death and mar | Z |
But in the spaces far | Z |
Like our effulgent star | Z |
We are eternal | A2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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