The Mystic Trumpeter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE CFCGGGHI DJKDCCIDG CI DLGDMNCOGP QGGRR DIICSICCTR CCICLCDUVWLC IXYDZLA2CHCCCII CIZNB2 GCIB2B2B2B2 B2IB2FC2B2| HARK some wild trumpeter some strange musician | A |
| Hovering unseen in air vibrates capricious tunes to night | B |
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| I hear thee trumpeter listening alert I catch thy notes | C |
| Now pouring whirling like a tempest round me | D |
| Now low subdued now in the distance lost | E |
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| Come nearer bodiless one haply in thee resounds | C |
| Some dead composer haply thy pensive life | F |
| Was fill'd with aspirations high unform'd ideals | C |
| Waves oceans musical chaotically surging | G |
| That now ecstatic ghost close to me bending thy cornet echoing | G |
| pealing | G |
| Gives out to no one's ears but mine but freely gives to mine | H |
| That I may thee translate | I |
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| Blow trumpeter free and clear I follow thee | D |
| While at thy liquid prelude glad serene | J |
| The fretting world the streets the noisy hours of day withdraw | K |
| A holy calm descends like dew upon me | D |
| I walk in cool refreshing night the walks of Paradise | C |
| I scent the grass the moist air and the roses | C |
| Thy song expands my numb'd imbonded spirit thou freest launchest | I |
| me | D |
| Floating and basking upon Heaven's lake | G |
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| Blow again trumpeter and for my sensuous eyes | C |
| Bring the old pageants show the feudal world | I |
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| What charm thy music works thou makest pass before me | D |
| Ladies and cavaliers long dead barons are in their castle halls the | L |
| troubadours are singing | G |
| Arm'd knights go forth to redress wrongs some in quest of the Holy | D |
| Grail | M |
| I see the tournament I see the contestants encased in heavy armor | N |
| seated on stately champing horses | C |
| I hear the shouts the sounds of blows and smiting steel | O |
| I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies Hark how the cymbals clang | G |
| Lo where the monks walk in advance bearing the cross on high | P |
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| Blow again trumpeter and for thy theme | Q |
| Take now the enclosing theme of all the solvent and the setting | G |
| Love that is pulse of all the sustenace and the pang | G |
| The heart of man and woman all for love | R |
| No other theme but love knitting enclosing all diffusing love | R |
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| O how the immortal phantoms crowd around me | D |
| I see the vast alembic ever working I see and know the flames that | I |
| heat the world | I |
| The glow the blush the beating hearts of lovers | C |
| So blissful happy some and some so silent dark and nigh to death | S |
| Love that is all the earth to lovers Love that mocks time and | I |
| space | C |
| Love that is day and night Love that is sun and moon and stars | C |
| Love that is crimson sumptuous sick with perfume | T |
| No other words but words of love no other thought but Love | R |
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| Blow again trumpeter conjure war's Wild alarums | C |
| Swift to thy spell a shuddering hum like distant thunder rolls | C |
| Lo where the arm'd men hasten Lo mid the clouds of dust the glint | I |
| of bayonets | C |
| I see the grime faced cannoniers I mark the rosy flash amid the | L |
| smoke I hear the cracking of the guns | C |
| Nor war alone thy fearful music song wild player brings every | D |
| sight of fear | U |
| The deeds of ruthless brigands rapine murder I hear the cries for | V |
| help | W |
| I see ships foundering at sea I behold on deck and below deck the | L |
| terrible tableaux | C |
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| O trumpeter methinks I am myself the instrument thou playest | I |
| Thou melt'st my heart my brain thou movest drawest changest them | X |
| at will | Y |
| And now thy sullen notes send darkness through me | D |
| Thou takest away all cheering light all hope | Z |
| I see the enslaved the overthrown the hurt the opprest of the | L |
| whole earth | A2 |
| I feel the measureless shame and humiliation of my race it becomes | C |
| all mine | H |
| Mine too the revenges of humanity the wrongs of ages baffled feuds | C |
| and hatreds | C |
| Utter defeat upon me weighs all lost the foe victorious | C |
| Yet 'mid the ruins Pride colossal stands unshaken to the last | I |
| Endurance resolution to the last | I |
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| Now trumpeter for thy close | C |
| Vouchsafe a higher strain than any yet | I |
| Sing to my soul renew its languishing faith and hope | Z |
| Rouse up my slow belief give me some vision of the future | N |
| Give me for once its prophecy and joy | B2 |
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| O glad exulting culminating song | G |
| A vigor more than earth's is in thy notes | C |
| Marches of victory man disenthrall'd the conqueror at last | I |
| Hymns to the universal God from universal Man all joy | B2 |
| A reborn race appears a perfect World all joy | B2 |
| Women and Men in wisdom innocence and health all joy | B2 |
| Riotous laughing bacchanals fill'd with joy | B2 |
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| War sorrow suffering gone The rank earth purged nothing but joy | B2 |
| left | I |
| The ocean fill'd with joy the atmosphere all joy | B2 |
| Joy Joy in freedom worship love Joy in the ecstacy of life | F |
| Enough to merely be Enough to breathe | C2 |
| Joy Joy all over Joy | B2 |
Walt Whitman
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