L-apprenti Sorcier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAAAAAEEFFGG GGGGHHGGGAAIIJJKKFFA ALLMMNO| Suddenly there came to me | A |
| The music of a mighty sea | A |
| That on a bare and iron shore | B |
| Thundered with a deeper roar | B |
| Than all the tides that leap and run | C |
| With us below the real sun | C |
| Because the place was far away | D |
| Above beyond our homely day | D |
| Neighbouring close the frozen clime | A |
| Where out of all the woods of time | A |
| Amid the frightful seraphim | A |
| The fierce cold eyes of Godhead gleam | A |
| Revolving hate and misery | A |
| And wars and famines yet to be | A |
| And in my dreams I stood alone | E |
| Upon a shelf of weedy stone | E |
| And saw before my shrinking eyes | F |
| The dark enormous breakers rise | F |
| And hover and fall with deafening thunder | G |
| Of thwarted foam that echoed under | G |
| The ledge through many a cavern drear | G |
| With hollow sounds of wintry fear | G |
| And through the waters waste and grey | G |
| Thick strown for many a league away | G |
| Out of the toiling sea arose | H |
| Many a face and form of those | H |
| Thin elemental people dear | G |
| Who live beyond our heavy sphere | G |
| And all at once from far and near | G |
| They all held out their arms to me | A |
| Crying in their melody | A |
| Leap in Leap in and take thy fill | I |
| Of all the cosmic good and ill | I |
| Be as the Living ones that know | J |
| Enormous joy enormous woe | J |
| Pain beyond thought and fiery bliss | K |
| For all thy study hunted this | K |
| On wings of magic to arise | F |
| And wash from off thy filmed eyes | F |
| The cloud of cold mortality | A |
| To find the real life and be | A |
| As are the children of the deep | L |
| Be bold and dare the glorious leap | L |
| Or to thy shame go slink again | M |
| Back to the narrow ways of men | M |
| So all these mocked me as I stood | N |
| Striving to wake because I feared the flood | O |
Clive Staples Lewis
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