To Richard Wagner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABBB CD DCDE FGF FGHH FFFFFFII BBBBBBFF BJBJBJKK| I saw a sky of stars that rolled in grime | A |
| All glory twinkled through some sweat of fight | B |
| From each tall chimney of the roaring time | A |
| That shot his fire far up the sooty night | B |
| Mixt fuels Labor's Right and Labor's Crime | A |
| Sent upward throb on throb of scarlet light | B |
| Till huge hot blushes in the heavens blent | B |
| With golden hues of Trade's high firmament | B |
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| Fierce burned the furnaces yet all seemed well | C |
| Hope dreamed rich music in the rattling mills | D |
| 'Ye foundries ye shall cast my church a bell ' | - |
| Loud cried the Future from the farthest hills | D |
| 'Ye groaning forces crack me every shell | C |
| Of customs old constraints and narrow ills | D |
| Thou lithe Invention wake and pry and guess | E |
| Till thy deft mind invents me Happiness ' | - |
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| And I beheld high scaffoldings of creeds | F |
| Crumbling from round Religion's perfect Fane | G |
| And a vast noise of rights wrongs powers needs | F |
| Cries of new Faiths that called 'This Way is plain ' | - |
| Grindings of upper against lower greeds | F |
| Fond sighs for old things shouts for new did reign | G |
| Below that stream of golden fire that broke | H |
| Mottled with red above the seas of smoke | H |
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| Hark Gay fanfares from halls of old Romance | F |
| Strike through the clouds of clamor who be these | F |
| That paired in rich processional advance | F |
| From darkness o'er the murk mad factories | F |
| Into yon flaming road and sink strange Ministrants | F |
| Sheer down to earth with many minstrelsies | F |
| And motions fine and mix about the scene | I |
| And fill the Time with forms of ancient mien | I |
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| Bright ladies and brave knights of Fatherland | B |
| Sad mariners no harbor e'er may hold | B |
| A swan soft floating tow'rds a magic strand | B |
| Dim ghosts of earth air water fire steel gold | B |
| Wind grief and love a lewd and lurking band | B |
| Of Powers dark Conspiracy Cunning cold | B |
| Gray Sorcery magic cloaks and rings and rods | F |
| Valkyries heroes Rhinemaids giants gods | F |
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| O Wagner westward bring thy heavenly art | B |
| No trifler thou Siegfried and Wotan be | J |
| Names for big ballads of the modern heart | B |
| Thine ears hear deeper than thine eyes can see | J |
| Voice of the monstrous mill the shouting mart | B |
| Not less of airy cloud and wave and tree | J |
| Thou thou if even to thyself unknown | K |
| Hast power to say the Time in terms of tone | K |
Sidney Lanier
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