The Song Of Arda Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLJJMN OPOPOPP QAQAOPP RSRSTSS IUIUIUU| Low as a lute my love beneath the call | A |
| Of storm I hear a melancholy wind | B |
| The memorably mournful wind of yore | C |
| Which is the very brother of the one | D |
| That wanders like a hermit by the mound | E |
| Of Death in lone Annatanam A song | F |
| Was shaped for this what time we heard outside | G |
| The gentle falling of the faded leaf | H |
| In quiet noons a song whose theme doth turn | I |
| On gaps of Ruin and the gay green clifts | J |
| Beneath the summits haunted by the moon | K |
| Yea much it travels to the dens of dole | L |
| And in the midst of this strange rhyme my lords | J |
| Our Desolation like a phantom sits | J |
| With wasted cheeks and eyes that cannot weep | M |
| And fastened lips crampt up in marvellous pain | N |
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| A song in whose voice is the voice of the foam | O |
| And the rhyme of the wintering wave | P |
| And the tongue of the things that eternally roam | O |
| In forest in fell or in cave | P |
| But mostly 'tis like to the Wind without home | O |
| In the glen of a desolate grave | P |
| Of a deep and desolate grave | P |
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| The torrent flies over the thunder struck clift | Q |
| With many and many a call | A |
| The leaves are swept down and a dolorous drift | Q |
| Is hurried away with the fall | A |
| But mostly 'tis like the Wind without home | O |
| In the glen of a desolate grave | P |
| Of a deep and desolate grave | P |
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| Whoever goes thither by night or by day | R |
| Must mutter O Father to Thee | S |
| For the shadows that startle the sounds that waylay | R |
| Are heavy to hear and to see | S |
| And a step and a moan and a whisper for aye | T |
| Have made it a sorrow to be | S |
| A sorrow of sorrows to be | S |
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| Oh cover your faces and shudder and turn | I |
| And hide in the dark of your hair | U |
| Nor look to the Glen in the Mountains to learn | I |
| Of the mystery mouldering there | U |
| But rather sit low in the ashes and urn | I |
| Dead hopes in your mighty despair | U |
| In the depths of your mighty despair | U |
Henry Kendall
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