Enceladus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EAEEA FGFHG IJIIJ KLKKL MAMMMUnder 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | G |
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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 |
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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 | M |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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