Alastor: Or, The Spirit Of Solitude Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Earth Ocean Air belov d brotherhood	A
If our great Mother has imbued my soul	B
With aught of natural piety to feel	C
Your love and recompense the boon with mine	D
If dewy morn and odorous noon and even	E
With sunset and its gorgeous ministers	F
And solemn midnight's tingling silentness	F
If Autumn's hollow sighs in the sere wood	A
And Winter robing with pure snow and crowns	F
Of starry ice the gray grass and bare boughs	F
If Spring's voluptuous pantings when she breathes	F
Her first sweet kisses have been dear to me	G
If no bright bird insect or gentle beast	H
I consciously have injured but still loved	I
And cherished these my kindred then forgive	J
This boast belov d brethren and withdraw	K
No portion of your wonted favor now	L
	-
Mother of this unfathomable world	M
Favor my solemn song for I have loved	I
Thee ever and thee only I have watched	N
Thy shadow and the darkness of thy steps	F
And my heart ever gazes on the depth	O
Of thy deep mysteries I have made my bed	P
In charnels and on coffins where black death	Q
Keeps record of the trophies won from thee	G
Hoping to still these obstinate questionings	F
Of thee and thine by forcing some lone ghost	R
Thy messenger to render up the tale	S
Of what we are In lone and silent hours	F
When night makes a weird sound of its own stillness	F
Like an inspired and desperate alchemist	T
Staking his very life on some dark hope	U
Have I mixed awful talk and asking looks	F
With my most innocent love until strange tears	F
Uniting with those breathless kisses made	V
Such magic as compels the charm d night	W
To render up thy charge and though ne'er yet	X
Thou hast unveiled thy inmost sanctuary	G
Enough from incommunicable dream	Y
And twilight phantasms and deep noonday thought	Z
Has shone within me that serenely now	L
And moveless as a long forgotten lyre	A2
Suspended in the solitary dome	B2
Of some mysterious and deserted fane	C2
I wait thy breath Great Parent that my strain	C2
May modulate with murmurs of the air	D2
And motions of the forests and the sea	G
And voice of living beings and woven hymns	F
Of night and day and the deep heart of man	E2
	-
There was a Poet whose untimely tomb	F2
No human hands with pious reverence reared	G2
But the charmed eddies of autumnal winds	F
Built o'er his mouldering bones a pyramid	H2
Of mouldering leaves in the waste wilderness	F
A lovely youth no mourning maiden decked	I2
With weeping flowers or votive cypress wreath	J2
The lone couch of his everlasting sleep	K2
Gentle and brave and generous no lorn bard	L2
Breathed o'er his dark fate one melodious sigh	M2
He lived he died he sung in solitude	N2
Strangers have wept to hear his passionate notes	F
And virgins as unknown he passed have pined	O2
And wasted for fond love of his wild eyes	F
The fire of those soft orbs has ceased to burn	P2
And Silence too enamoured of that voice	F
Locks its mute music in her rugged cell	Q2
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By solemn vision and bright silver dream	Y
His infancy was nurtured Every sight	W
And sound from the vast earth and ambient air	D2
Sent to his heart its choicest impulses	F
The fountains of divine philosophy	G
Fled not his thirsting lips and all of great	R2
Or good or lovely which the sacred past	S2
In truth or fable consecrates he felt	T2
And knew When early youth had passed he left	U2
His cold fireside and alienated home	B2
To seek strange truths in undiscovered lands	F
Many a wide waste and tangled wilderness	F
Has lured his fearless steps and he has bought	V2
With his sweet voice and eyes from savage men	W2
His rest and food Nature's most secret steps	F
He like her shadow has pursued where'er	X2
The red volcano overcanopies	F
Its fields of snow and pinnacles of ice	F
With burning smoke or where bitumen lakes	F
On black bare pointed islets ever beat	Y2
With sluggish surge or where the secret caves	F
Rugged and dark winding among the springs	F
Of fire and poison inaccessible	Z2
To avarice or pride their starry domes	F
Of diamond and of gold expand above	A3
Numberless and immeasurable halls	F
Frequent with crystal column and clear shrines	F
Of pearl and thrones radiant with chrysolite	Y2
Nor had that scene of ampler majesty	Y2
Than gems or gold the varying roof of heaven	B3
And the green earth lost in his heart its claims	F
To love and wonder he would linger long	C3
In lonesome vales making the wild his home	B2
Until the doves and squirrels would partake	D3
From his innocuous band his bloodless food	Y2
Lured by the gentle meaning of his looks	F
And the wild antelope that starts whene'er	X2
The dry leaf rustles in the brake suspend	Y2
Her timid steps to gaze upon a form	E3
More graceful than her own	F3
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His wandering step	G3
Obedient to high thoughts has visited	Y2
The awful ruins of the days of old	Y2
Athens and Tyre and Balbec and the waste	Y2
Where stood Jerusalem the fallen towers	F
Of Babylon the eternal pyramids	F
Memphis and Thebes and whatsoe'er of strange	H3
Sculptured on alabaster obelisk	D3
Or jasper tomb or mutilated sphinx	F
Dark thiopia in her desert hills	F
Conceals Among the ruined temples there	X2
Stupendous columns and wild images	F
Of more than man where marble daemons watch	I3
The Zodiac's brazen mystery and dead men	W2
Hang their mute thoughts on the mute walls around	Y2
He lingered poring on memorials	F
Of the world's youth through the long burning day	Y2
Gazed on those speechless shapes nor when the moon	J3
Filled the mysterious halls with floating shades	F
Suspended he that task but ever gazed	Y2
And gazed till meaning on his vacant mind	Y2
Flashed like strong inspiration and he saw	F
The thrilling secrets of the birth of time	K3
	-
Meanwhile an Arab maiden brought his food	Y2
Her daily portion from her father's tent	Y2
And spread her matting for his couch and stole	B
From duties and repose to tend his steps	F
Enamoured yet not daring for deep awe	L3
To speak her love and watched his nightly sleep	K2
Sleepless herself to gaze upon his lips	F
Parted in slumber whence the regular breath	Q
Of innocent dreams arose then when red morn	M3
Made paler the pale moon to her cold home	B2
Wildered and wan and panting she returned	Y2
	-
The Poet wandering on through Arabie	Y2
And Persia and the wild Carmanian waste	Y2
And o'er the a rial mountains which pour down	N3
Indus and Oxus from their icy caves	F
In joy and exultation held his way	Y2
Till in the vale of Cashmire far within	E
Its loneliest dell where odorous plants entwine	D
Beneath the hollow rocks a natural bower	X2
Beside a sparkling rivulet he stretched	Y2
His languid limbs A vision on his sleep	K2
There came a dream of hopes that never yet	Y2
Had flushed his cheek He dreamed a veil d maid	Y2
Sate near him talking in low solemn tones	F
Her voice was like the voice of his own soul	B
Heard in the calm of thought its music long	D3
Like woven sounds of streams and breezes held	Y2
His inmost sense suspended in its web	O3
Of many colored woof and shifting hues	F
Knowledge and truth and virtue were her theme	Y
And lofty hopes of divine liberty	Y2
Thoughts the most dear to him and poesy	F
Herself a poet Soon the solemn mood	Y2
Of her pure mind kindled through all her frame	P3
A permeating fire wild numbers then	W2
She raised with voice stifled in tremulous sobs	F
Subdued by its own pathos her fair hands	F
Were bare alone sweeping from some strange harp	Q3
Strange symphony and in their branching veins	F
The eloquent blood told an ineffable tale	S
The beating of her heart was heard to fill	R3
The pauses of her music and her breath	Q
Tumultuously accorded with those fits	F
Of intermitted song Sudden she rose	F
As if her heart impatiently endured	Y2
Its bursting burden at the sound he turned	Y2
And saw by the warm light of their own life	S3
Her glowing limbs beneath the sinuous veil	S
Of woven wind her outspread arms now bare	X2
Her dark locks floating in the breath of night	Y2
Her beamy bending eyes her parted lips	F
Outstretched and pale and quivering eagerly	Y2
His strong heart sunk and sickened with excess	F
Of love He reared his shuddering limbs and quelled	Y2
His gasping breath and spread hi	M2

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Alastor: Or, The Spirit Of Solitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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