The Master Of The Dance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDFGHGFIJIKLMLNOPO QRSRMTUTVWXWYEREZA2B 2A2C2D2E2D2F2G2H2G2I 2J2C2J2K2L2M2L2N2WO2 WP2Q2BQ2 VRR2RFS2T2S2C2MU2MV2 L2H2L2BW2X2W2Y2RZ2RA 3B3BB3C3ZP2ZWD3E3D3F 3U2G3U2H3I3J3I3U2MK3 ML3U2O2U2M3KN3KO3P3Q 3P3R3FU2F E2W2U2W2U2O2S3O2U2T3 U3T3U2V3W2V3MC2W3C2X 3Y3Z3Y3A chant to which it is intended a group of children shall | A |
dance and improvise pantomime led by their dancing teacher | B |
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A master deep eyed | C |
Ere his manhood was ripe | D |
He sang like a thrush | E |
He could play any pipe | D |
So dull in the school | F |
That he scarcely could spell | G |
He read but a bit | H |
And he figured not well | G |
A bare footed fool | F |
Shod only with grace | I |
Long hair streaming down | J |
Round a wind hardened face | I |
He smiled like a girl | K |
Or like clear winter skies | L |
A virginal light | M |
Making stars of his eyes | L |
In swiftness and poise | N |
A proud child of the deer | O |
A white fawn he was | P |
Yet a fawn without fear | O |
No youth thought him vain | Q |
Or made mock of his hair | R |
Or laughed when his ways | S |
Were most curiously fair | R |
A mastiff at fight | M |
He could strike to the earth | T |
The envious one | U |
Who would challenge his worth | T |
However we bowed | V |
To the schoolmaster mild | W |
Our spirits went out | X |
To the fawn footed child | W |
His beckoning led | Y |
Our troop to the brush | E |
We found nothing there | R |
But a wind and a hush | E |
He sat by a stone | Z |
And he looked on the ground | A2 |
As if in the weeds | B2 |
There was something profound | A2 |
His pipe seemed to neigh | C2 |
Then to bleat like a sheep | D2 |
Then sound like a stream | E2 |
Or a waterfall deep | D2 |
It whispered strange tales | F2 |
Human words it spoke not | G2 |
Told fair things to come | H2 |
And our marvellous lot | G2 |
If now with fawn steps | I2 |
Unshod we advanced | J2 |
To the midst of the grove | C2 |
And in reverence danced | J2 |
We obeyed as he piped | K2 |
Soft grass to young feet | L2 |
Was a medicine mighty | M2 |
A remedy meet | L2 |
Our thin blood awoke | N2 |
It grew dizzy and wild | W |
Though scarcely a word | O2 |
Moved the lips of a child | W |
Our dance gave allegiance | P2 |
It set us apart | Q2 |
We tripped a strange measure | B |
Uplifted of heart | Q2 |
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II | - |
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We thought to be proud | V |
Of our fawn everywhere | R |
We could hardly see how | R2 |
Simple books were a care | R |
No rule of the school | F |
This strange student could tame | S2 |
He was banished one day | T2 |
While we quivered with shame | S2 |
He piped back our love | C2 |
On a moon silvered night | M |
Enticed us once more | U2 |
To the place of delight | M |
A greeting he sang | V2 |
And it made our blood beat | L2 |
It tramped upon custom | H2 |
And mocked at defeat | L2 |
He builded a fire | B |
And we tripped in a ring | W2 |
The embers our books | X2 |
And the fawn our good king | W2 |
And now we approached | Y2 |
All the mysteries rare | R |
That shadowed his eyelids | Z2 |
And blew through his hair | R |
That spell now was peace | A3 |
The deep strength of the trees | B3 |
The children of nature | B |
We clambered her knees | B3 |
Our breath and our moods | C3 |
Were in tune with her own | Z |
Tremendous her presence | P2 |
Eternal her throne | Z |
The ostracized child | W |
Our white foreheads kissed | D3 |
Our bodies and souls | E3 |
Became lighter than mist | D3 |
Sweet dresses like snow | F3 |
Our small lady loves wore | U2 |
Like moonlight the thoughts | G3 |
That our bosoms upbore | U2 |
Like a lily the touch | H3 |
Of each cold little hand | I3 |
The loves of the stars | J3 |
We could now understand | I3 |
O quivering air | U2 |
O the crystalline night | M |
O pauses of awe | K3 |
And the faces swan white | M |
O ferns in the dusk | L3 |
O forest shrined hour | U2 |
O earth that sent upward | O2 |
The thrill and the power | U2 |
To lift us like leaves | M3 |
A delirious whirl | K |
The masterful boy | N3 |
And the delicate girl | K |
What child that strange night time | O3 |
Can ever forget | P3 |
His fealty due | Q3 |
And his infinite debt | P3 |
To the folly divine | R3 |
To the exquisite rule | F |
Of the perilous master | U2 |
The fawn footed fool | F |
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III | - |
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Now soldiers we seem | E2 |
And night brings a new thing | W2 |
A terrible ire | U2 |
As of thunder awing | W2 |
A warrior power | U2 |
That old chivalry stirred | O2 |
When knights took up arms | S3 |
As the maidens gave word | O2 |
THE END OF OUR WAR | U2 |
WILL BE GLORY UNTOLD | T3 |
WHEN THE TOWN LIKE A GREAT | U3 |
BUDDING ROSE SHALL UNFOLD | T3 |
Near nearer that war | U2 |
And that ecstasy comes | V3 |
We hear the trees beating | W2 |
Invisible drums | V3 |
The fields of the night | M |
Are starlit above | C2 |
Our girls are white torches | W3 |
Of conquest and love | C2 |
No nerve without will | X3 |
And no breast without breath | Y3 |
We whirl with the planets | Z3 |
That never know death | Y3 |
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