The Three Urgandas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDC EEECFFFC GGHCIIIC JJJJKKKJ LLLJMMMJ ANNJOOOJ BBBJPPPJ NNNJBBBJ QRRJSSSJ TTTJRRRJ NNNJNNNJ EEEJLLLJ| Cast on sleep there came to me | A |
| Three Urgandas and the sea | A |
| In lost lands of Briogne | B |
| Sounded moaning moaning | C |
| Cloudy clad in awful white | D |
| And each face a lucid light | D |
| Rayed and blossomed out of night | D |
| And a wind was groaning | C |
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| In my sleep I saw them rest | E |
| Each a long hand at her breast | E |
| A soft flame that lulls the West | E |
| And the sea was moaning moaning | C |
| Hair like hoarded ingots rolled | F |
| Down white shoulders glossy gold | F |
| Streaks of molten moonlight cold | F |
| And a wind was groaning | C |
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| Rosy 'round each high brow bent | G |
| Four fold starry gold that sent | G |
| Barbs of fire redolent | H |
| And the sea was moaning moaning | C |
| 'Neath their burning crowns their eyes | I |
| Burned like southern stars the skies | I |
| Rock in shattered storm that flies | I |
| And a wind was groaning | C |
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| Wisdom's eyes of lurid dark | J |
| And each red mouth like a spark | J |
| Flashed and laughed off care and cark | J |
| And the sea was moaning moaning | J |
| Mouths for song and lips to kiss | K |
| Lips for hate and mouths to hiss | K |
| Lips that fashioned hell or bliss | K |
| And the wind was groaning | J |
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| Tall as stately virgins dead | L |
| Tapers lit at feet and head | L |
| 'Round whom Latin prayers are said | L |
| And the sea was moaning moaning | J |
| Or as vampire women who | M |
| Buried beauties rise and woo | M |
| Youths whose blood they suck like dew | M |
| And a wind was groaning | J |
| - | |
| Then the west one said to me | A |
| Thou hast slept thus holily | N |
| While seven sands ran secretly | N |
| And the sea was moaning moaning | J |
| Earth hath served thee like a slave | O |
| Serving us who found thee brave | O |
| Fearless of or life or grave | O |
| And a wind was groaning | J |
| - | |
| Know she smote my brow a pain | B |
| Riddling arrows rent my brain | B |
| Ceased and earth fell some vast strain | B |
| And the sea was moaning moaning | J |
| Then I understood all thought | P |
| What was life the spirit fraught | P |
| Love and hate how worlds were wrought | P |
| And a wind was groaning | J |
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| Then the east one said to me | N |
| Thou hast wandered wearily | N |
| By what mist enveloped sea | N |
| And the sea was moaning moaning | J |
| Know the things thou hast not seen | B |
| Life and law and love and teen | B |
| Things that be and have not been | B |
| And the wind was groaning | J |
| - | |
| See her voice sung like a lyre | Q |
| Throbs of thunderous desire | R |
| Then the iron sight like fire | R |
| And the sea was moaning moaning | J |
| Burst the inner eyelids which | S |
| Husked clairvoyance with a twitch | S |
| Rose and I with light was rich | S |
| And a wind was groaning | J |
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| Then I saw the eyes of Sleep | T |
| Nerves of Life and veins that leap | T |
| Laws of entity the deep | T |
| And the sea was moaning moaning | J |
| Orbs and eons springs of Power | R |
| Circumstance blown like a flower | R |
| Time the second of an hour | R |
| And the wind was groaning | J |
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| To the central third one's full | N |
| Balanced being beautiful | N |
| Heart to hearken made a lull | N |
| And the sea was moaning moaning | J |
| As she sternly stooped to me | N |
| Thou dost know and thou canst see | N |
| What thou art arise and be | N |
| And the wind was groaning | J |
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| To my mouth hot lips she pressed | E |
| And my famished soul thrice blessed | E |
| Quaffed her radiance and caressed | E |
| And vague seas were moaning moaning | J |
| Mounted star vibrating fled | L |
| Soared to love with her who said | L |
| Thou dost live and thou art dead | L |
| Far off winds were groaning | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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