Chavez Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDC EFEFGF HIHIJI KLKLCL MCMCNC OPFPQR STSTGGT| So hath he fallen the Endymion of the air | A |
| And so lies down in slumber lapped for aye | B |
| Diana passing found his youth too fair | A |
| His soul too fleet and willing to obey | C |
| She swung her golden moon before his eyes | D |
| Dreaming he rose to follow and ran and was away | C |
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| His foot was wing egrave d as the mounting sun | E |
| Earth he disdained the dusty ways of men | F |
| Not yet had learned His spirit longed to run | E |
| With the bright clouds his brothers to answer when | F |
| The airs were fleetest and could give him hand | G |
| Into the starry fields beyond our plodding ken | F |
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| All wittingly that glorious way he chose | H |
| And loved the peril when it was most bright | I |
| He tried anew the long forbidden snows | H |
| And like an eagle topped the dropping height | I |
| Of Nagenhorn and still toward Italy | J |
| Past peak and cliff pressed on in glad unerring flight | I |
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| Oh when the bird lies low with golden wing | K |
| Bruis egrave d past healing by some bitter chance | L |
| Still must its tireless spirit mount and sing | K |
| Of meadows green with morning of the dance | L |
| On windy trees the darting flight away | C |
| And of that last most blue triumphant downward glance | L |
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| So murmuring of the snow THE SNOW AND MORE | M |
| O GOD MORE SNOW on that last field he lay | C |
| Despair and wonder spent their passionate store | M |
| In his great heart through heaven gone astray | C |
| And early lost Too far the golden moon | N |
| Had swung upon that bright that long untraversed way | C |
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| Now to lie ended on the murmuring plain | O |
| Ah this for his bold heart was not the loss | P |
| But that those windy fields he ne'er again | F |
| Might try nor fleet and shimmering mountains cross | P |
| Unfollowed by a path none other knew | Q |
| His bitter woe had here its deep and piteous cause | R |
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| Dear toils of youth unfinished And songs unwritten left | S |
| By young and passionate hearts O melodies | T |
| Unheard whereof we ever stand bereft | S |
| Clear singing Schubert boyish Keats with these | T |
| He roams henceforth one with the starry band | G |
| Still paying to fairy call and far command | G |
| His spirit heed still winged with golden prophecies | T |
Mildred Mcneal Sweeney
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