The Philosopher's Oration: A Faun's Holiday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFAADDGGAAAA HHIIAAAAJJDDKKAAL LAAMMNNBCOOPPJJQQAAR RAACCKK SSAATTUUAAVVWWXXMeanwhile though nations in distress | A |
Cower at a comet's loveliness | A |
Shaken across the midnight sky | B |
Though the wind roars and Victory | C |
A virgin fierce on vans of gold | D |
Stoops through the cloud's white smother rolled | D |
Over the armies' shock and flow | E |
Across the broad green hills below | E |
Yet hovers and will not circle down | F |
To cast t'ward one the leafy crown | F |
Though men drive galleys' golden beaks | A |
To isles beyond the sunset peaks | A |
And cities on the sea behold | D |
Whose walls are glass whose gates are gold | D |
Whose turrets risen in an hour | G |
Dazzle between the sun and shower | G |
Whose sole inhabitants are kings | A |
Six cubits high with gryphon's wings | A |
And beard and mien more glorious | A |
Than Midas or Assaracus | A |
Though priests in many a a hill top fane | H |
Lift anguished hands and lift in vain | H |
Toward the sun's shaft dancing through | I |
The bright roof's square of wind swept blue | I |
Though 'cross the stars nightly arise | A |
The silver fumes of sacrifice | A |
Though a new Helen bring new scars | A |
Pyres piled upon wrecked golden cars | A |
Stacked spears rolled smoke and spirits sped | J |
Like a streaked flame toward the dead | J |
Though all these be yet grows not old | D |
Delight of sunned and windy wold | D |
Of soaking downs aglare asteam | K |
Of still tarns where the yellow gleam | K |
Of a far sunrise slowly breaks | A |
Or sunset strews with golden flakes | A |
The deeps which soon the stars will throng | L |
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For earth yet keeps her undersong | L |
Of comfort and of ultimate peace | A |
That whoso seeks shall never cease | A |
To hear at dawn or noon or night | M |
Joys hath she too joys thin and bright | M |
Too thin too bright for those to hear | N |
Who listen with an eager ear | N |
Or course about and seek to spy | B |
Within an hour eternity | C |
First must the spirit cast aside | O |
This world's and next his own poor pride | O |
And learn the universe to scan | P |
More as a flower less as a man | P |
Then shall he hear the lonely dead | J |
Sing and the stars sing overhead | J |
And every spray upon the heath | Q |
And larks above and ants beneath | Q |
The stream shall take him in her arms | A |
Blue skies shall rest him in their calms | A |
The wind shall be a lovely friend | R |
And every leaf and bough shall bend | R |
Over him with a lover's grace | A |
The hills shall bare a perfect face | A |
Full of a high solemnity | C |
The heavenly clouds shall weep and be | C |
Content as overhead they swim | K |
To be high brothers unto him | K |
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No more shall he feel pitched and hurled | S |
Uncomprehended into this world | S |
For every place shall be his place | A |
And he shall recognize its face | A |
At dawn he shall upon his path | T |
No sword shall touch him nor the wrath | T |
Of the ranked crowd of clamorous men | U |
At even he shall home again | U |
And lay him down to sleep at ease | A |
One with the Night and the Night's peace | A |
Ev'n Sorrow to be escaped of none | V |
But a more deep communion | V |
Shall be to him and Death at last | W |
No more dreaded than the Past | W |
Whose shadow in the brain of earth | X |
Informs him now and gave him birth | X |
Robert Nichols
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