Excelsior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDEEC FFGGC HHIIC JJKKC LLFFC FFMMC FFBBC NNOOC

The shades of night were falling fastA
As through an Alpine village passedA
A youth who bore 'mid snow and iceB
A banner with the strange deviceB
ExcelsiorC
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His brow was sad his eye beneathD
Flashed like a falchion from its sheathD
And like a silver clarion rungE
The accents of that unknown tongueE
ExcelsiorC
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In happy homes he saw the lightF
Of household fires gleam warm and brightF
Above the spectral glaciers shoneG
And from his lips escaped a groanG
ExcelsiorC
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Try not the pass the old man saidH
Dark lowers the tempest overheadH
The roaring torrent is deep and wideI
And loud that clarion voice repliedI
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Oh stay the maiden said and restJ
Thy weary head upon this breastJ
A tear stood in his bright blue eyeK
But still he answered with a sighK
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Beware the pine tree's withered branchL
Beware the awful avalancheL
This was the peasant's last Good nightF
A voice replied far up the heightF
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At break of day as heavenwardF
The pious monks of Saint BernardF
Uttered the oft repeated prayerM
A voice cried through the startled airM
ExcelsiorC
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A traveller by the faithful houndF
Half buried in the snow was foundF
Still grasping in his hand of iceB
That banner with the strange deviceB
ExcelsiorC
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There in the twilight cold and grayN
Lifeless but beautiful he layN
And from the sky serene and farO
A voice fell like a falling starO
ExcelsiorC

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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