The Rock Of Cader Idris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDFGHGH IJIJKLML NGNGKIKI| I LAY on that rock where the storms have their dwelling | A |
| The birthplace of phantoms the home of the cloud | B |
| Around it for ever deep music is swelling | A |
| The voice of the mountain wind solemn and loud | B |
| 'Twas a midnight of shadows all fitfully streaming | A |
| Of wild waves and breezes that mingled their moan | C |
| Of dim shrouded stars as from gulfs faintly gleaming | A |
| And I met the dread gloom of its grandeur alone | C |
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| I lay there in silence a spirit came o'er me | D |
| Man's tongue hath no language to speak what I saw | E |
| Things glorious unearthly passed floating before me | D |
| And my heart almost fainted with rapture and awe | F |
| I viewed the dread beings around us that hover | G |
| Though veil'd by the mists of mortality's breath | H |
| And I called upon darkness the vision to cover | G |
| For a strife was within me of madness and death | H |
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| I saw them the powers of the wind and the ocean | I |
| The rush of whose pinion bears onward the storms | J |
| Like the sweep of the white rolling wave was their motion | I |
| I felt their dim presence but knew not their forms | J |
| I saw them the mighty of ages departed | K |
| The dead were around me that night on the hill | L |
| From their eyes as they passed a cold radiance they darted | M |
| There was light on my soul but my heart's blood was chill | L |
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| I saw what man looks on and dies but my spirit | N |
| Was strong and triumphantly lived through that hour | G |
| And as from the grave I awoke to inherit | N |
| A flame all immortal a voice and a power | G |
| Day burst on that rock with the purple cloud crested | K |
| And high Cader Idris rejoiced in the sun | I |
| But O what new glory all nature invested | K |
| When the sense which gives soul to her beauty was won | I |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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