Kabula Khan

• Intermittent’ → interrupted, at intervals → ‘half-intermitted’ → hesitant hesitation → interval that is abrogated - loses regularity becomes anxious → ‘half-intermitted burst’ - asking to be born
• "Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst"
• "huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail"
• "dancing rocks at once and ever"
• "it flung up momently the sacred river"