The Comedian As The Letter C: 01 - The World Without Imagination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFEGEDEEEH IJKLMNODPQRMEEESTCUG V EQEWXEYZCEEA2UDOB2C2 D2E2EEF2G2MMH2I2EEJ2 NK2 L2DEDEMEEEEEG2XEI2M2 EDN2DO2Nota man is the intelligence of his soil | A |
The sovereign ghost As such the Socrates | B |
Of snails musician of pears principium | C |
And lex Sed quaeritur is this same wig | D |
Of things this nincompated pedagogue | D |
Preceptor to the sea Crispin at sea | E |
Created in his day a touch of doubt | F |
An eye most apt in gelatines and jupes | E |
Berries of villages a barber's eye | G |
An eye of land of simple salad beds | E |
Of honest quilts the eye of Crispin hung | D |
On porpoises instead of apricots | E |
And on silentious porpoises whose snouts | E |
Dibbled in waves that were mustachios | E |
Inscrutable hair in an inscrutable world | H |
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One eats one pat eacute even of salt quotha | I |
It was not so much the lost terrestrial | J |
The snug hibernal from that sea and salt | K |
That century of wind in a single puff | L |
What counted was mythology of self | M |
Blotched out beyond unblotching Crispin | N |
The lutanist of fleas the knave the thane | O |
The ribboned stick the bellowing breeches cloak | D |
Of China cap of Spain imperative haw | P |
Of hum inquisitorial botanist | Q |
And general lexicographer of mute | R |
And maidenly greenhorns now beheld himself | M |
A skinny sailor peering in the sea glass | E |
What word split up in clickering syllables | E |
And storming under multitudinous tones | E |
Was name for this short shanks in all that brunt | S |
Crispin was washed away by magnitude | T |
The whole of life that still remained in him | C |
Dwindled to one sound strumming in his ear | U |
Ubiquitous concussion slap and sigh | G |
Polyphony beyond his baton's thrust | V |
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Could Crispin stem verboseness in the sea | E |
The old age of a watery realist | Q |
Triton dissolved in shifting diaphanes | E |
Of blue and green A wordy watery age | W |
That whispered to the sun's compassion made | X |
A convocation nightly of the sea stars | E |
And on the cropping foot ways of the moon | Y |
Lay grovelling Triton incomplicate with that | Z |
Which made him Triton nothing left of him | C |
Except in faint memorial gesturings | E |
That were like arms and shoulders in the waves | E |
Here something in the rise and fall of wind | A2 |
That seemed hallucinating horn and here | U |
A sunken voice both of remembering | D |
And of forgetfulness in alternate strain | O |
Just so an ancient Crispin was dissolved | B2 |
The valet in the tempest was annulled | C2 |
Bordeaux to Yucatan Havana next | D2 |
And then to Carolina Simple jaunt | E2 |
Crispin merest minuscule in the gates | E |
Dejected his manner to the turbulence | E |
The salt hung on his spirit like a frost | F2 |
The dead brine melted in him like a dew | G2 |
Of winter until nothing of himself | M |
Remained except some starker barer self | M |
In a starker barer world in which the sun | H2 |
Was not the sun because it never shone | I2 |
With bland complaisance on pale parasols | E |
Beetled in chapels on the chaste bouquets | E |
Against his pipping sounds a trumpet cried | J2 |
Celestial sneering boisterously Crispin | N |
Became an introspective voyager | K2 |
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Here was the veritable ding an sich at last | L2 |
Crispin confronting it a vocable thing | D |
But with a speech belched out of hoary darks | E |
Noway resembling his a visible thing | D |
And excepting negligible Triton free | E |
From the unavoidable shadow of himself | M |
That lay elsewhere around him Severance | E |
Was clear The last distortion of romance | E |
Forsook the insatiable egotist The sea | E |
Severs not only lands but also selves | E |
Here was no help before reality | E |
Crispin beheld and Crispin was made new | G2 |
The imagination here could not evade | X |
In poems of plums the strict austerity | E |
Of one vast subjugating final tone | I2 |
The drenching of stale lives no more fell down | M2 |
What was this gaudy gusty panoply | E |
Out of what swift destruction did it spring | D |
It was caparison of mind and cloud | N2 |
And something given to make whole among | D |
The ruses that were shattered by the large | O2 |
Wallace Stevens
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