The Desert Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MBMB NONO NNNN CKCK KPKP KNKN NQNR KSKS TNUN VKVK WNWN KBKK

Uncircumscribed unmeasured vastA
Eternal as the SeaB
What lacks the tidal sea thou hastA
Profound stabilityB
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Beneath the sun that burns and brandsC
In hushed Noon's halting breathD
Calm as the Sphinx upon thy sandsC
Thou art nay calm as deathD
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The desert foxes hide in holesE
The jackal seeks his lairF
The sombre rocks like reddening coalsE
Glow lurid in the glareF
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Only some vulture far awayG
Bald headed harpy eyedH
Flaps down on lazy wing to preyG
On what has lately diedH
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No palm tree lifts a lonely shadeI
No dove is on the wingJ
It seems a land which Nature madeI
Without a living thingJ
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Or wreckage of some older worldK
Ere children grew or flowersL
When rocks and hissing stones were hurledK
In hot volcanic showersL
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The solemn Blue bends over allM
Far as winged thought may fleeB
Roll ridges of black mountain wallM
And flat sands like the seaB
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No trace of footsteps to be seenN
No tent no smoking roofO
Nay even the vagrant BeeshareenN
Keeps warily aloofO
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But yon mid tumbled hillocks proneN
Some human form I scanN
A human form indeed but stoneN
A cold colossal ManN
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How came he here mid piling sandsC
Like some huge cliff enisledK
Osiris wise with folded handsC
Mute spirit of the WildK
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Ages ago the hands that hewedK
And in the living rockP
Carved this Colossus granite thewedK
And curled each crispy lockP
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Ages ago have dropped to restK
And left him passive proneN
Forgotten on earth's barren breastK
Half statue and half stoneN
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And Persia ruled and PalestineN
And o'er her violet seasQ
Arose with marble gods divineN
The grace of god like GreeceR
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And Rome the Mistress of the WorldK
Amid her diademS
Of Eastern Empires set impearledK
The Scarab's mystic gemS
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Perchance he has been lying hereT
Since first the world beganN
Poor Titan of some earlier sphereU
Of prehistoric ManN
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To whom we are as idle fliesV
That fuss and buzz their dayK
While still immutable he liesV
As long ago he layK
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Empurpled in the AfterglowW
Thou with the Sun aloneN
Of all the stormy waste belowW
Art King but king of stoneN
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Uncircumscribed unmeasured vastK
Eternal as the SeaB
The present here becomes the pastK
For all futurityK

Mathilde Blind



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