The Quarry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPMQRS TUVWXYZA2B2C2D2E2F2G 2MAH2AI2I2J2I2I2K2I2 I2L2I2| Between the rice swamps and the fields of tea | A |
| I met a sacred elephant snow white | B |
| Upon his back a huge pagoda towered | C |
| Full of brass gods and food of sacrifice | D |
| Upon his forehead sat a golden throne | E |
| The massy metal twisted into shapes | F |
| Grotesque antediluvian such as move | G |
| In myth or have their broken images | H |
| Sealed in the stony middle of the hills | I |
| A peacock spread his thousand dyes to screen | J |
| The yellow sunlight from the head of one | K |
| Who sat upon the throne clad stiff with gems | L |
| Heirlooms of dynasties of buried kings | M |
| Himself the likeness of a buried king | N |
| With frozen gesture and unfocused eyes | O |
| The trappings of the beast were over scrawled | P |
| With broideries sea shapes and flying things | M |
| Fan trees and dwarfed nodosities of pine | Q |
| Mixed with old alphabets and faded lore | R |
| Fallen from ecstatic mouths before the Flood | S |
| Or gathered by the daughters when they walked | T |
| Eastward in Eden with the Sons of God | U |
| Whom love and the deep moon made garrulous | V |
| Between the carven tusks his trunk hung dead | W |
| Blind as the eyes of pearl in Buddha's brow | X |
| His beaded eyes stared thwart upon the road | Y |
| And feebler than the doting knees of eid | Z |
| His joints of size to swing the builder's crane | A2 |
| Across the war walls of the Anakim | B2 |
| Made vain and shaken haste Good need was his | C2 |
| To hasten panting foaming on the slot | D2 |
| Came many brutes of prey their several hates | E2 |
| Laid by until the sharing of the spoil | F2 |
| Just as they gathered stomach for the leap | G2 |
| The sun was darkened and wide balanced wings | M |
| Beat downward on the trade wind from the sea | A |
| A wheel of shadow sped along the fields | H2 |
| And o'er the dreaming cities Suddenly | A |
| My heart misgave me and I cried aloud | I2 |
| quot Alas What dost thou here What dost thou here quot | I2 |
| The great beasts and the little halted sharp | J2 |
| Eyed the grand circler doubting his intent | I2 |
| Straightway the wind flawed and he came about | I2 |
| Stooping to take the vanward of the pack | K2 |
| Then turned between the chasers and the chased | I2 |
| Crying a word I could not understand | I2 |
| But stiller tongued with eyes somewhat askance | L2 |
| They settled to the slot and disappeared | I2 |
William Vaughn Moody
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