The Pass Across The Abyss In The Tschufut-kale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCB DEE F DGG A HIIHHIIH JKKJLL| Mirza | A |
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| Pray Pray Let loose the bridle Look not down | B |
| The humble horse alone has wisdom here | C |
| He knows where blackest the abysses leer | C |
| And where the path in safety leads us down | B |
| Pray and look upward to the mountain's crown | B |
| The deep below is endless where you peer | C |
| Stretch not the hand out as you pass for fear | C |
| The added weight of that might plunge you down | B |
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| And check your thoughts' free flight too while you go | D |
| Let all of Fancy's fluttering sails be furled | E |
| Here where Death watches o'er the riven world | E |
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| Pilgrim | F |
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| I lived to cross the bridge of ancient snow | D |
| But what I saw my tongue no more can tell | G |
| The angels only could rehearse that well | G |
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| MIRZA | A |
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| Behold blue Heaven in that deep abyss | H |
| The sea is that Behold the long waves shine | I |
| Watch how they rock that giant bird divine | I |
| Whose swinging white wings wide horizons kiss | H |
| Is that an iceberg in the blue abyss | H |
| No no a cloud Watch how 'tis veiling fine | I |
| The sea the land out blotting every line | I |
| To drown it all in darkness soon I wis | H |
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| The lightning comes now Frightful is its sweep | J |
| But softly softly Watch my spur my whip | K |
| I'll leap across unto that chasm's lip | K |
| What still and chilling sternness great cliffs keep | J |
| Down there light calls to me Soon there I'll be | L |
| Uncanny is such loneliness to me | L |
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz
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