The Conqueror Worm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDBDB EFEFGFGF HAIAJAJA AAAAKAKA LMNMOPQP| Lo 'tis a gala night | A |
| Within the lonesome latter years | B |
| An angel throng bewinged bedight | A |
| In veils and drowned in tears | C |
| Sit in a theatre to see | D |
| A play of hopes and fears | B |
| While the orchestra breathes fitfully | D |
| The music of the spheres | B |
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| Mimes in the form of God on high | E |
| Mutter and mumble low | F |
| And hither and thither fly | E |
| Mere puppets they who come and go | F |
| At bidding of vast formless things | G |
| That shift the scenery to and fro | F |
| Flapping from out their Condor wings | G |
| Invisible Wo | F |
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| That motley drama oh be sure | H |
| It shall not be forgot | A |
| With its Phantom chased for evermore | I |
| By a crowd that seize it not | A |
| Through a circle that ever returneth in | J |
| To the self same spot | A |
| And much of Madness and more of Sin | J |
| And Horror the soul of the plot | A |
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| But see amid the mimic rout | A |
| A crawling shape intrude | A |
| A blood red thing that writhes from out | A |
| The scenic solitude | A |
| It writhes it writhes with mortal pangs | K |
| The mimes become its food | A |
| And the angels sob at vermin fangs | K |
| In human gore imbued | A |
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| Out out are the lights out all | L |
| And over each quivering form | M |
| The curtain a funeral pall | N |
| Comes down with the rush of a storm | M |
| And the angels all pallid and wan | O |
| Uprising unveiling affirm | P |
| That the play is the tragedy Man | Q |
| And its hero the Conqueror Worm | P |
Edgar Allan Poe
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