Kapiolani Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD AEFBG ABBEHG IJKJJFG GLBGM INOPQFLRH G| I | A |
| When from the terrors of Nature a people have fashion'd and worship a Spirit of Evil | B |
| Blest he the Voice of the Teacher who calls to them | C |
| 'Set yourselves free ' | D |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Noble the Saxon who hurl'd at his Idol a valorous weapon in olden England | E |
| Great and greater and greatest of women island heroine Kapiolani | F |
| Clomb the mountain and flung the berries and dared the Goddess and freed the people | B |
| Of Hawa i ee | G |
| - | |
| III | A |
| A people believing that Peel the Goddess would wallow in fiery riot and revel | B |
| On Kilaue | B |
| Dance in a fountain of flame with her devils or shake with tier thunders and shatter her island | E |
| Rolling her anger | H |
| Thro' blasted valley and flaring forest in blood red cataracts down to the sea | G |
| - | |
| IV | I |
| Long as the lava light | J |
| Glares from the lava lake | K |
| Dazing the starlight | J |
| Long as the silvery vapour in daylight | J |
| Over the mountain | F |
| Floats will the glory of Kapiolani be mingled with either on Hawa i ee | G |
| - | |
| V | G |
| What said her Priesthood | L |
| 'Woe to this island if ever a woman should handle or gather the berries of Peel | B |
| Accurs d were she | G |
| And woe to this island if ever a woman should climb to the dwelling of Peel the Goddess | M |
| Accurs d were she ' | - |
| - | |
| VI | I |
| One from the Sunrise | N |
| Dawn'd on His people and slowly before him | O |
| Vanish'd shadow like | P |
| Gods and Goddesses | Q |
| None but the terrible Peel remaining as Kapiolani ascended her mountain | F |
| Baffled her priesthood | L |
| Broke the Taboo | R |
| Dipt to the crater | H |
| Call'd on the Power adored by the Christian and crying 'I dare her let Peel avenge herself ' | - |
| Into the flame billow dash'd the berries and drove the demon from Hawa i ee | G |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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