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The Song Of Arda: (from -annatanam�.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLJJMN OPOPOPP QAQAOPP RSRSTSS IUIUIUU

LOW as a lute my love beneath the callA
Of storm I hear a melancholy windB
The memorably mournful wind of yoreC
Which is the very brother of the oneD
That wanders like a hermit by the moundE
Of Death in lone Annatanam A songF
Was shaped for this what time we heard outsideG
The gentle falling of the faded leafH
In quiet noons a song whose theme doth turnI
On gaps of Ruin and the gay green cliftsJ
Beneath the summits haunted by the moonK
Yea much it travels to the dens of doleL
And in the midst of this strange rhyme my lordsJ
Our Desolation like a phantom sitsJ
With wasted cheeks and eyes that cannot weepM
And fastened lips crampt up in marvellous painN
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A song in whose voice is the voice of the foamO
And the rhyme of the wintering waveP
And the tongue of the things that eternally roamO
In forest in fell or in caveP
But mostly tis like to the Wind without homeO
In the glen of a desolate graveP
Of a deep and desolate graveP
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The torrent flies over the thunder struck cliftQ
With many and many a callA
The leaves are swept down and a dolorous driftQ
Is hurried away with the fallA
But mostly tis like the Wind without homeO
In the glen of a desolate graveP
Of a deep and desolate graveP
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Whoever goes thither by night or by dayR
Must mutter O Father to TheeS
For the shadows that startle the sounds that waylayR
Are heavy to hear and to seeS
And a step and a moan and a whisper for ayeT
Have made it a sorrow to beS
A sorrow of sorrows to beS
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Oh cover your faces and shudder and turnI
And hide in the dark of your hairU
Nor look to the Glen in the Mountains to learnI
Of the mystery mouldering thereU
But rather sit low in the ashes and urnI
Dead hopes in your mighty despairU
In the depths of your mighty despairU

Henry Kendall



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