Excelsior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDEEC FFGGC HHIIC JJKKC LLFFC FFMMC FFBBC NNOOCThe 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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