Pæan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCBD EFGFHEGIHGJ EEJEEJEEBKBBKBKB LMLMNONNON| upon seeing a portrait of Blake | A |
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| Something moves in his dust | B |
| Flame sleeps beneath the crust | B |
| O whence had he those eyes | C |
| Lit with celestial surprise | C |
| From what world blew that gust | B |
| Are we near to Paradise | D |
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| Gather a chaplet of five stars | E |
| And the opalescent hue | F |
| Of the aureole brightness cast | G |
| Red hardly red and blue scarce blue | F |
| Round th' immaculate frosty moon | H |
| Splintering light in glacial spars | E |
| When November's loudening blast | G |
| Sweeps heaven's floor till burnished | I |
| More crystal than at August noon | H |
| So we fit radiance may cast | G |
| Before his feet around his head | J |
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| How visits he an earthly place | E |
| Wanders among a mortal race | E |
| How were his footsteps led | J |
| That still about his face | E |
| Lingers a ghostly trace | E |
| Of a secret influence shed | J |
| By a Hand the world denies | E |
| In a land her most son flies | E |
| As a gift upon him thrust | B |
| For an end he knoweth not | K |
| Yet will shine because he must | B |
| Shine and sing because he must | B |
| Reap a wrong he soweth not | K |
| Of contempt anger and distrust | B |
| For a world which boweth not | K |
| To the Flame which binds our dust | B |
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| Go net the moon go snare the sun | L |
| Set them upon his either hand | M |
| Beneath his heels Leviathan | L |
| Roll your thick coils His head be spanned | M |
| By rainbows tripled Set a gem | N |
| At the Cross scabbard of his sword | O |
| Whiter than lambwool or lilystem | N |
| Place on his brow the diadem | N |
| Given the warrior of the Lord | O |
| The crown turrets of Jerusalem | N |
Robert Nichols
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