Passageways Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJIK HJK HHLMNOPQRHS HHTHHHHO HUHHVJ HWHRHOHXH HYZJA2 IHB2C2VVVHHD2 E2HHF2G2UVH2Greet the days | A |
greet the moon | B |
gather the stars | C |
Man is not at one with himself | D |
collars the infidel ways of his | E |
race under pressure domes of widening silence | F |
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I scan the horizon barely cognizant | G |
of the metallic bits that pierce | H |
the night's crown no | I |
jewelled orb stabs this queen's spectre | J |
I am running and lost ever slow | I |
to breech this reasoning | K |
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Honeysuckle mist with armfuls | H |
of orange lilies with scent stronger | J |
than the carriage needed in their gathering | K |
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Place the constellations upon their heads | H |
the colour so transcends | H |
And then there are the bludgeoned | L |
stars fallen into the eyes of | M |
my farmhouse scene | N |
The sphinx moth that darns the night | O |
with her acrobatics escapes the wreath | P |
of troubled moon that places about | Q |
her proboscised head | R |
Let her stone the night in peace | H |
feel palpitations on her ocean breast | S |
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The darting of stone cracks in fissures | H |
along the causeway to the stonehouse | H |
is certain and sure | T |
A definite mood projects | H |
the starling tunnels | H |
forlorn now with limpid darkness | H |
crushed lavender from the pews | H |
of thoughtful night | O |
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There are armfuls of crushed bats | H |
in the passageway to my heart | U |
each reeking with squeals | H |
to alarm the most frightened princess | H |
Only one has stained the pass key | V |
and I must find her | J |
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A toad abides the thoughtful recess | H |
broken under the wall | W |
He is a good toad and mourns | H |
the night creaking from the river bed | R |
A monster dragon to the insects | H |
making a living near the light | O |
a source of amused contempt to lepidoptrists | H |
squeezing the eye's circle | X |
pressing her to release her giddy charms | H |
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At morning skeletal remains | H |
shall stain the blighted chain mood collector toad moth | Y |
but for now only the night buzzes with alarm | Z |
cracking her secrets with each tiny monster | J |
hurled at light's intrusion into dark | A2 |
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Perchance I shall narrow | I |
down the divide position alarms | H |
remind myself I am inured to the | B2 |
mood scent that mans this cosmic bandwagon | C2 |
I hold up flowers to remind me | V |
light escapes through jelly | V |
and that rare LUMINESCENCE exists only | V |
in lost bat chambers | H |
buried deep near the recesses | H |
of the snake | D2 |
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The cry of havoc | E2 |
all those armfuls of collapsed lilies | H |
breaking under the toil of enforced handshakes | H |
leaves me like a broken lamp | F2 |
I have no more shades to patch | G2 |
the plinths or barricade my heart | U |
I have left my love on bended knee | V |
in a land I choose to forget | H2 |
Paul Cameron Brown
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