The Impervious Iceberg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EAEF GHGH IJIJ JKJK LMNM OBOB PBPB QRQR STSU KKKK TVWV XYXY ZA2ZB2 C2A2C2| I saw him stand a Polar man | A |
| Cold anger in his frigid eye | B |
| Facing it wild unruly clan | A |
| Who poised their fiery shafts on high | B |
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| Strangely his very coldness fed | C |
| The angry flame 'gainst such as he | D |
| For in his wintry face they read | C |
| Antarctic immobility | D |
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| The niveous hauteur of that face | E |
| Bespoke the brumal inner man | A |
| And in its chill hyemal grace | E |
| His pose was quite Siberian | F |
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| His haughty and hibernal gaze | G |
| Seemed like twin icicles to strike | H |
| The whole man was in many ways | G |
| Peculiarly cucumber like | H |
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| His algid and unruffled brow | I |
| Gleamed frostily and as he eyed | J |
| His raging foes he seemed I vow | I |
| Gelidity personified | J |
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| His Greenland bosom bulged with pride | J |
| A manly bosom 'twas withal | K |
| And as he breathed with glacial glide | J |
| I watched his waistcoat rise and fall | K |
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| I marked the Arctic arrogance | L |
| With which he faced his foemen bold | M |
| Bleak was his mien clay cold his glance | N |
| Some vowed his very feet were cold | M |
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| I saw his savage foemen poise | O |
| Their fiery javelins on high | B |
| They made a fearful lot of noise | O |
| 'Slay Slay the Iceberg ' was the cry | B |
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| And then as by a single hand | P |
| Propelled I saw the keen shafts fly | B |
| And on that manly bosom land | P |
| 'This is his funeral ' thought I | B |
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| Nay by my halidaine What's this | Q |
| Upon his breast the hot shafts beat | R |
| But with a fierce and baffled hiss | Q |
| dropp all innocuous at his feet | R |
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| Unscathed he stood the Man of Ice | S |
| Each shaft with torrid anger fired | T |
| Just spluttered feebly once or twice | S |
| Then ignominiously expired | U |
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| One look he gave them that was all | K |
| It made his shiv'ring foemen feel | K |
| That wintry blasts swept through the hall | K |
| Then turned on his hyemal heel | K |
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| One word he spake one icy word | T |
| No man among them stood exempt | V |
| It froze each listener who hear | W |
| With hyperborean contempt | V |
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| It froze them with its brumal blast | X |
| Like avalanches there it rang | Y |
| Then through the door he calmly passed | X |
| And banged it with a snow clad bang | Y |
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| So frigidly he won the day | Z |
| And when the blizzard blast was o'er | A2 |
| Lo nought remained to mark the fray | Z |
| But shafts deceased upon the floor | B2 |
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| And as I passed into the night | C2 |
| I heard one baffled foe aver | A2 |
| ''Tis sheer futility to fight | C2 |
| An iceberg with a Lucifer ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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