Mount Erebus: (a Fragment) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPFQRS TUVW XJYZA2B2C2D2E2F2G2H2 WI2A J2K2L2YM2N2O2P2Q2R2S 2T2I2U2V2H2| A MIGHTY theatre of snow and fire | A |
| Girt with perpetual Winter and sublime | B |
| By reason of that lordly solitude | C |
| Which dwells for ever at the world s white ends | D |
| And in that weird faced wilderness of ice | E |
| There is no human foot nor any paw | F |
| Or hoof of beast but where the shrill winds drive | G |
| The famished birds of storm across the tracts | H |
| Whose centre is the dim mysterious Pole | I |
| Beyond yea far beyond the homes of man | J |
| By water never dark with coming ships | K |
| Near seas that know not feather scale or fin | L |
| The grand volcano like a weird Isaiah | M |
| Set in that utmost region of the Earth | N |
| Doth thunder forth the awful utterance | O |
| Whose syllables are flame and when the fierce | P |
| Antarctic Night doth hold dominionship | F |
| Within her fastnessess then round the cone | Q |
| Of Erebus a crown of tenfold light | R |
| Appears and shafts of marvellous splendour shoot | S |
| Far out to east and west and south and north | T |
| Whereat a gorgeous dome of glory roofs | U |
| Wild leagues of mountain and transfigured waves | V |
| And lends all things a beauty terrible | W |
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| Far reaching lands whereon the hand of Change | X |
| Hath never rested since the world began | J |
| Lie here in fearful fellowship with cold | Y |
| And rain and tempest Here colossal horns | Z |
| Of hill start up and take the polar fogs | A2 |
| Shot through with flying stars of fire and here | B2 |
| Above the dead grey crescents topped with spires | C2 |
| Of thunder smoke one half the heaven flames | D2 |
| With that supremest light whose glittering life | E2 |
| Is yet a marvel unto all but One | F2 |
| The Entity Almighty whom we feel | G2 |
| Is nearest us when we are face to face | H2 |
| With Nature s features aboriginal | W |
| And in the hearing of her primal speech | I2 |
| And in the thraldom of her primal power | A |
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| While like the old Chaldean king who waxed | J2 |
| Insane with pride we human beings grow | K2 |
| To think we are the mightiest of the world | L2 |
| And lords of all terrestrial things behold | Y |
| The sea rolls in with a superb disdain | M2 |
| Upon our peopled shores omnipotent | N2 |
| And while we set up things of clay and call | O2 |
| Our idols gods and while we boast or fume | P2 |
| About the petty honours or the poor | Q2 |
| Pale disappointments of our meagre lives | R2 |
| Lo changeless as Eternity itself | S2 |
| The grand Antarctic mountain looms outside | T2 |
| All breathing life and with its awful speech | I2 |
| Is as an emblem of the Power Supreme | U2 |
| Whose thunders shake the boundless Universe | V2 |
| Whose lightnings make a terror of all Space | H2 |
Henry Kendall
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