Enceladus. (birds Of Passage. Flight The Second) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EAEEA FGFH IJIIJ KLKKL MAMM| Under Mount Etna he lies | A |
| It is slumber it is not death | B |
| For he struggles at times to arise | A |
| And above him the lurid skies | A |
| Are hot with his fiery breath | B |
| - | |
| The crags are piled on his breast | C |
| The earth is heaped on his head | D |
| But the groans of his wild unrest | C |
| Though smothered and half suppressed | C |
| Are heard and he is not dead | D |
| - | |
| And the nations far away | E |
| Are watching with eager eyes | A |
| They talk together and say | E |
| 'To morrow perhaps to day | E |
| Euceladus will arise | A |
| - | |
| And the old gods the austere | F |
| Oppressors in their strength | G |
| Stand aghast and white with fear | F |
| At the ominous sounds they hear | H |
| And tremble and mutter 'At length ' | - |
| - | |
| Ah me for the land that is sown | I |
| With the harvest of despair | J |
| Where the burning cinders blown | I |
| From the lips of the overthrown | I |
| Enceladus fill the air | J |
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| Where ashes are heaped in drifts | K |
| Over vineyard and field and town | L |
| Whenever he starts and lifts | K |
| His head through the blackened rifts | K |
| Of the crags that keep him down | L |
| - | |
| See see the red light shines | M |
| 'T is the glare of his awful eyes | A |
| And the storm wind shouts through the pines | M |
| Of Alps and of Apennines | M |
| 'Enceladus arise ' | - |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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