To -- (iii) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBABBFBBAFAGBHIJ GABBKLHNot long ago the writer of these lines | A |
In the mad pride of intellectuality | B |
Maintained the power of words denied that ever | C |
A thought arose within the human brain | D |
Beyond the utterance of the human tongue | E |
And now as if in mockery of that boast | B |
Two words two foreign soft dissyllables | A |
Italian tones made only to be murmured | B |
By angels dreaming in the moonlit dew | B |
That hangs like chains of pearl on Hermon hill | F |
Have stirred from out the abysses of his heart | B |
Unthought like thoughts that are the souls of thought | B |
Richer far wilder far diviner visions | A |
Than even seraph harper Israfel | F |
Who has the sweetest voice of all God's creatures | A |
Could hope to utter And I my spells are broken | G |
The pen falls powerless from my shivering hand | B |
With thy dear name as text though bidden by thee | H |
I cannot write I cannot speak or think | I |
Alas I cannot feel for 'tis not feeling | J |
This standing motionless upon the golden | G |
Threshold of the wide open gate of dreams | A |
Gazing entranced adown the gorgeous vista | B |
And thrilling as I see upon the right | B |
Upon the left and all the way along | K |
Amid empurpled vapors far away | L |
To where the prospect terminates thee only | H |
Edgar Allan Poe
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