Orion. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBCDEB BFFBFGGB HIIHIIIH IJJIJKKI IIIIILLI IMMIMGGI NOONOPPN IIIIIIII QHHQHIIQ| A hunter of shadows himself a shade HOMER | A |
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| Oh weary sleeper by the lone sea shore | B |
| Where billows toil for ever 'mid the rocks | C |
| Scourged on by winds in stormy equinox | C |
| Rise rise in haste or slumber evermore | B |
| The stern Earth calls thee and the Ocean mocks | C |
| Roll thy poor sightless orbs about the sky | D |
| Through tears of blind and powerless agony | E |
| Rise rise in haste or slumber evermore | B |
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| Ay blind I stand beside the lone sea shore | B |
| Hearing the mighty murmur of the waves | F |
| Shaking with giant arms earth's architraves | F |
| Scaling the riven cloud crags bald and boar | B |
| Surging hoarse secrets through the central caves | F |
| God shall thine ocean undiscern d roll | G |
| Night on mine eyes and darkness on my soul | G |
| Groping for knowledge blindly evermore | B |
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| Wild laugh the winds Ho ho about my face | H |
| Heaven mock me not with night struck eyes upraised | I |
| Still fronting full the dome where once I gazed | I |
| Yearns my unsighted soul through dimmest space | H |
| Before it let these earth mists sink abased | I |
| Let me behold the All before I die | I |
| Passing swift wing'd into Eternity | I |
| Let me no more these shapeless shadows chase | H |
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| Is there not Phoebus in the golden East | I |
| Pouring forth floods of brilliancy divine | J |
| That fire the spirit more than Jove's own wine | J |
| Arise and drain the droppings of the feast | I |
| Heaven there's no East for these blind eyes of mine | J |
| Staring the sun down into black eclipse | K |
| What hand will raise the chalice to my lips | K |
| Give me a child to guide me e'en the least | I |
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| Then on thou giant child led through the land | I |
| Tottering feebly with uncertain stride | I |
| With heavy moans along the mountain side | I |
| Groping the darkness wildly staff in hand | I |
| Staying deep voiced the quick steps of thy guide | I |
| On with wild sightless sockets to the sun | L |
| Thirsting for the light streams that around it run | L |
| Far on yon summit turning eastward stand | I |
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| God let me rather die than thus child led | I |
| Totter about the world an infant's slave | M |
| Ay die and darkly slumber in the grave | M |
| Peace proud one bow thine unsubmitting head | I |
| Peace soon the light streams shall thine eyelids lave | M |
| And wash this barren blindness from thy soul | G |
| Till these dark mystic vapours backward roll | G |
| And leave all nature in thy sight outspread | I |
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| We are upon the summit now Ho boy | N |
| Place me where I shall see the sun arise | O |
| When its great glory lightens up mine eyes | O |
| Oh that I thus should be an infant's toy | N |
| See now the morning streaks the Eastern skies | O |
| Ay boy I feel the light spring bubbling up | P |
| My lips are parch'd and thirsting for the cup | P |
| That now brims up my everlasting joy | N |
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| There is a low thin cloud along the sky | I |
| That melts away apace to brightest gold | I |
| Ay boy so shall my clouds melt fold on fold | I |
| Till glory flood my vision utterly | I |
| The sun the sun I see it upward roll'd | I |
| Day for the world but life fire life for me | I |
| Smiting asunder Death's night mystery | I |
| With lightning blade of strength and ecstasy | I |
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| Now on to work and action seeing clear | Q |
| Blindness swift throwing to Time's charnel place | H |
| Eyeing unscathed the Sun god face to face | H |
| Ho light more light dissolving sphere on sphere | Q |
| Would that my very life could lighten space | H |
| Shining out like some constellation bright | I |
| Back beating all the myrmidons of Night | I |
| With starry splendors flashing sword and spear | Q |
Walter R. Cassels
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