Two Songs From A Play Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDED FGHFIJKI A LMNLOPPQ NDDNRSSR| I | A |
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| I saw a staring virgin stand | B |
| Where holy Dionysus died | C |
| And tear the heart out of his side | C |
| And lay the heart upon her hand | B |
| And bear that beating heart away | D |
| Of Magnus Annus at the spring | E |
| As though God's death were but a play | D |
| - | |
| Another Troy must rise and set | F |
| Another lineage feed the crow | G |
| Another Argo's painted prow | H |
| Drive to a flashier bauble yet | F |
| The Roman Empire stood appalled | I |
| It dropped the reins of peace and war | J |
| When that fierce virgin and her Star | K |
| Out of the fabulous darkness called | I |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| In pity for man's darkening thought | L |
| He walked that room and issued thence | M |
| In Galilean turbulence | N |
| The Babylonian starlight brought | L |
| A fabulous formless darkness in | O |
| Odour of blood when Christ was slain | P |
| Made all platonic tolerance vain | P |
| And vain all Doric discipline | Q |
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| Everything that man esteems | N |
| Endures a moment or a day | D |
| Love's pleasure drives his love away | D |
| The painter's brush consumes his dreams | N |
| The herald's cry the soldier's tread | R |
| Exhaust his glory and his might | S |
| Whatever flames upon the night | S |
| Man's own resinous heart has fed | R |
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Billye Timbes: Line 6 is missing (first line of last couplet in this verse: And then did all the muses sing"
I would like to have an explanation of the line from the last verse 'what does he mean by "the herald's shout, the soldier's tread"?
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