Siege Perilous Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IBIB| Long warned of many terrors more severe | A |
| To scorch him than hell's engines could awaken | B |
| He scanned again too far to be so near | A |
| The fearful seat no man had ever taken | B |
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| So many other men with older eyes | C |
| Than his to see with older sight behind them | D |
| Had known so long their one way to be wise | C |
| Was any other thing to do than mind them | D |
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| So many a blasting parallel had seared | E |
| Confusion on his faith could he but wonder | F |
| If he were mad and right or if he feared | E |
| God's fury told in shafted flame and thunder | F |
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| There fell one day upon his eyes a light | G |
| Ethereal and he heard no more men speaking | H |
| He saw their shaken heads but no long sight | G |
| Was his but for the end that he went seeking | H |
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| The end he sought was not the end the crown | I |
| He won shall unto many still be given | B |
| Moreover there was reason here to frown | I |
| No fury thundered no flame fell from heaven | B |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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