Euroclydon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCAADDB EFFGAAHHG IJJIGGKLI MNNBOOPQB RSTBUUBBB VWWIXXGGI EGGYHHZZY A2YYQBBB2B2Q YC2C2CYYD2D2C E2F2EBPPIIBOn the storm cloven Cape | A |
The bitter waves roll | B |
With the bergs of the Pole | B |
And the darks and the damps of the Northern Sea | C |
For the storm cloven Cape | A |
Is an alien Shape | A |
With a fearful face and it moans and it stands | D |
Outside all lands | D |
Everlastingly | B |
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When the fruits of the year | E |
Have been gathered in Spain | F |
And the Indian rain | F |
Is rich on the evergreen lands of the Sun | G |
There comes to this Cape | A |
To this alien Shape | A |
As the waters beat in and the echoes troop forth | H |
The Wind of the North | H |
Euroclydon | G |
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And the wilted thyme | I |
And the patches past | J |
Of the nettles cast | J |
In the drift of the rift and the broken rime | I |
Are tumbled and blown | G |
To every zone | G |
With the famished glede and the plovers thinned | K |
By this fourfold Wind | L |
This Wind sublime | I |
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On the wrinkled hills | M |
By starts and fits | N |
The wild Moon sits | N |
And the rindles fill and flash and fall | B |
In the way of her light | O |
Through the straitened night | O |
When the sea heralds clamour and elves of the war | P |
In the torrents afar | Q |
Hold festival | B |
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From ridge to ridge | R |
The polar fires | S |
On the naked spires | T |
With a foreign splendour flit and flow | B |
And clough and cave | U |
And architrave | U |
Have a blood coloured glamour on roof and on wall | B |
Like a nether hall | B |
In the hells below | B |
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The dead dry lips | V |
Of the ledges split | W |
By the thunder fit | W |
And the stress of the sprites of the forked flame | I |
Anon break out | X |
With a shriek and a shout | X |
Like a hard bitter laughter cracked and thin | G |
From a ghost with a sin | G |
Too dark for a name | I |
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And all thro' the year | E |
The fierce seas run | G |
From sun to sun | G |
Across the face of a vacant world | Y |
And the Wind flies forth | H |
From the wild white North | H |
That shivers and harries the heart of things | Z |
And shapes with its wings | Z |
A chaos uphurled | Y |
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Like one who sees | A2 |
A rebel light | Y |
In the thick of the night | Y |
As he stumbles and staggers on summits afar | Q |
Who looks to it still | B |
Up hill and hill | B |
With a steadfast hope though the ways be deep | B2 |
And rough and steep | B2 |
Like a steadfast star | Q |
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So I that stand | Y |
On the outermost peaks | C2 |
Of peril with cheeks | C2 |
Blue with the salts of a frosty sea | C |
Have learnt to wait | Y |
With an eye elate | Y |
And a heart intent for the fuller blaze | D2 |
Of the Beauty that rays | D2 |
Like a glimpse for me | C |
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Of the Beauty that grows | E2 |
Whenever I hear | F2 |
The winds of Fear | E |
From the tops and the bases of barrenness call | B |
And the duplicate lore | P |
Which I learn evermore | P |
Is of Harmony filling and rounding the Storm | I |
And the marvellous Form | I |
That governs all | B |
Henry Kendall
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