The Golden Journey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DAADEE FGGFHH IJJIJJ JKKJLL JIIJMM NAANJJ OPPOQQ IRRISS TIITIIAll day he drowses by the sail | A |
With dreams of her and all night long | B |
The broken waters are at song | B |
Of how she lingers wild and pale | A |
When all the temple lights are dumb | C |
And weaves her spells to make him come | C |
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The wide sea traversed he will stand | D |
With straining eyes until the shoal | A |
Green water from the prow shall roll | A |
Upon the yellow strip of sand | D |
Searching some fern hid tangled way | E |
Into the forest old and grey | E |
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Then he will leap upon the shore | F |
And cast one look up at the sun | G |
Over his loosened locks will run | G |
The dawn breeze and a bird will pour | F |
Its rapture out to make life seem | H |
Too sweet to leave for such a dream | H |
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But all the swifter will he go | I |
Through the pale scattered asphodels | J |
Down mote hung dusk of olive dells | J |
To where the ancient basins throw | I |
Fleet threads of blue and trembling zones | J |
Of gold upon the temple stones | J |
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There noon keeps just a twilight trace | J |
Twixt love and hate and death and birth | K |
No man may choose nor sobs nor mirth | K |
May enter in that haunted place | J |
All day the fountain sphynx lets drip | L |
Slow drops of silence from her lip | L |
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To hold the porch roof slender girls | J |
Of milk white marble stand arow | I |
Doubt never blurs a single brow | I |
And never the noon's faintness curls | J |
From their expectant hush of pride | M |
The lips the god has glorified | M |
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But these things he will barely view | N |
Or if he stay to heed them still | A |
But as the lark the lights that spill | A |
From out the sun it soars unto | N |
Where past the splendors and the heats | J |
The sun's heart's self forever beats | J |
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For wide the brazen doors will swing | O |
Soon as his sandals touch the pave | P |
The anxious light inside will wave | P |
And tremble to a lunar ring | O |
About the form that lieth prone | Q |
Before the dreadful altar stone | Q |
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She will not look or speak or stir | I |
But with drowned lips and cheeks death white | R |
Will lie amid the pool of light | R |
Until grown faint with thirst of her | I |
He shall bow down his face and sink | S |
Breathless beneath the eddying brink | S |
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Then a swift music will begin | T |
And as the brazen doors shut slow | I |
There will be hurrying to and fro | I |
And lights and calls and silver din | T |
While through the star freaked swirl of air | I |
The god's sweet cruel eyes will stare | I |
William Vaughn Moody
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