Poet Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum

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Tulips Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJGKLKMFN

An age being mathematical these flowersA
Of linear stalks and spheroid blooms were prizedB
By men with wakened speculative mindsC
And when with mathematics they exploredD
The Macrocosm and came at last toE
The Vital Spirit of the World and named itF
Invisible Pure Fire or say the LightG
The Tulips were the Light's receptaclesH
The gold the bronze the red the bright swart TulipsI
No emblems they for us who no more dreamJ
Of mathematics burgeoning to lightG
With Newton's prism and Spinoza's lensK
Or berkeley's ultimate Invisible Pure FireL
In colored state and carven brilliancyK
We see them now or more illuminedM
In sudden fieriness as flowers fitF
To go with vestments red on PentecostN

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