Excelsior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDEEC FFGGC HHIIC JJKKC LLFFC FFMMC FFBBC NNOOC| The shades of night were falling fast | A |
| As through an Alpine village passed | A |
| A youth who bore 'mid snow and ice | B |
| A banner with the strange device | B |
| Excelsior | C |
| - | |
| His brow was sad his eye beneath | D |
| Flashed like a falchion from its sheath | D |
| And like a silver clarion rung | E |
| The accents of that unknown tongue | E |
| Excelsior | C |
| - | |
| In happy homes he saw the light | F |
| Of household fires gleam warm and bright | F |
| Above the spectral glaciers shone | G |
| And from his lips escaped a groan | G |
| Excelsior | C |
| - | |
| Try not the pass the old man said | H |
| Dark lowers the tempest overhead | H |
| The roaring torrent is deep and wide | I |
| And loud that clarion voice replied | I |
| Excelsior | C |
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| Oh stay the maiden said and rest | J |
| Thy weary head upon this breast | J |
| A tear stood in his bright blue eye | K |
| But still he answered with a sigh | K |
| Excelsior | C |
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| Beware the pine tree's withered branch | L |
| Beware the awful avalanche | L |
| This was the peasant's last Good night | F |
| A voice replied far up the height | F |
| Excelsior | C |
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| At break of day as heavenward | F |
| The pious monks of Saint Bernard | F |
| Uttered the oft repeated prayer | M |
| A voice cried through the startled air | M |
| Excelsior | C |
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| A traveller by the faithful hound | F |
| Half buried in the snow was found | F |
| Still grasping in his hand of ice | B |
| That banner with the strange device | B |
| Excelsior | C |
| - | |
| There in the twilight cold and gray | N |
| Lifeless but beautiful he lay | N |
| And from the sky serene and far | O |
| A voice fell like a falling star | O |
| Excelsior | C |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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