Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. Finale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBACDE EDFFGG HIJJHIKKEE LEELMNKKMN OPCOPC'Nunc plaudite ' the Student cried | A |
When he had finished 'now applaud | B |
As Roman actors used to say | C |
At the conclusion of a play | C |
And rose and spread his hands abroad | B |
And smiling bowed from side to side | A |
As one who bears the palm away | C |
And generous was the applause and loud | D |
But less for him than for the sun | E |
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That even as the tale was done | E |
Burst from its canopy of cloud | D |
And lit the landscape with the blaze | F |
Of afternoon on autumn days | F |
And filled the room with light and made | G |
The fire of logs a painted shade | G |
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A sudden wind from out the west | H |
Blew all its trumpets loud and shrill | I |
The windows rattled with the blast | J |
The oak trees shouted as it passed | J |
And straight as if by fear possessed | H |
The cloud encampment on the hill | I |
Broke up and fluttering flag and tent | K |
Vanished into the firmament | K |
And down the valley fled amain | E |
The rear of the retreating rain | E |
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Only far up in the blue sky | L |
A mass of clouds like drifted snow | E |
Suffused with a faint Alpine glow | E |
Was heaped together vast and high | L |
On which a shattered rainbow hung | M |
Not rising like the ruined arch | N |
Of some aerial aqueduct | K |
But like a roseate garland plucked | K |
From an Olympian god and flung | M |
Aside in his triumphal march | N |
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Like prisoners from their dungeon gloom | O |
Like birds escaping from a snare | P |
Like school boys at the hour of play | C |
All left at once the pent up room | O |
And rushed into the open air | P |
And no more tales were told that day | C |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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